440 cii. LAB1AT.E (bakek). [Coleus. 



at the base, thick and rather fleshy, 5 -nerved from the base, pilose 

 principally on the ribs beneath. Inflorescence racemose, dense, oblong, 

 1-1 J in. long; whorls many-flowered; cymes distinctly peduncled ; 

 pedicels short, pubescent. Fruit-calyx pubescent, ^ in. long ; tube 

 campanulate ; teeth small ; upper tooth ovate ; lower teeth not larger, 

 lanceolate. Corolla pubescent, ^ in. long ; lower lip as long as the tube. 

 Stamens included. 



Mozamb. Blst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Nyika Plateau, 6000- 

 7000 ft., JFhi/te ! 



59. C. mirabilis, Briquet in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 183. A tall shrub, 

 with robust branches clothed with grey down. Leaves petioled, lanceo- 

 late, 2-8 in. long, acute, narrowed to the base, regularly crenate, green 

 and pubescent above, clothed with white tomentum beneath. Inflores- 

 cence racemose, long ; whorls close, peduncled ; bracts chartaceous, 

 ovate, acuminate,' imbricate in bud. Calyx violet, \ in. long in the 

 flowering stage ; tube campanulate ; upper tooth lanceolate, the others 

 short, ovate-lanceolate. Corolla dark blue, protruding above J in. from 

 the throat of the calyx; lower lip Jin. long. Stamens included or 

 shortly exserted. 



IiO'wer Guinea. Angola : at Lumsuneya Brook, between Malange and the 

 River Kuango, Mechow ; in a swamp at Malange, Mechow, 489 ; in a moorland 

 waste below Moma, near Malange, Buchner, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85. 



South Central. Congo Free State; Lunda ; by the Lulua River, Pogge, 350. 



Briquet, 1. c. 184, describes 4 varieties — viz., mechoivianus [Mechow, no number) ; 

 poggeanus [Pogge, 350) ; hypisodontns {Mechow, 489) ; and huchnerianus {Buchner, 

 81 to 85). 



60. C. thyrsoideus. Baker ex Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 10,12. A 

 leafy much-branched perennial undershrub, 2-3 ft. high. Stem, petioles 

 and inflorescence sparsely pubescent with spreading hairs. Lower leaves 

 up to 7 by 4 in., ovate-cordate, acuminate, bright green above, paler 

 beneath with prominent pubescent nerves, decurrent at the base ; 

 petiole 2 in. long ; upper leaves smaller, more deeply cleft, shorter 

 petioled. Inflorescence racemose, terminal on the branches, narrow, 

 erect, 6-10 in. long; branchlets short, bearing dense-flowered dicho- 

 tomous cymes of 10-15 shortly pedicelled flowers ; bracteoles minute, 

 green. Calyx very small ; tube subglobose, hispidulous with stellately 

 spreading hairs ; dorsal sepal linear-oblong, puberulous, nearly as long 

 as the corolla-tube below its flexure ; lateral sepals about half as long ; 

 two anticous segments small, linear, obtuse. Corolla bright blue, J in. 

 long ; tube suddenly deflexed a little above the short base, then ascending 

 and again deflexed, forming a sub-campanulate laterally compressed 

 throat ; upper lip reflexed, obovate, with 4 short broad rounded lobes ; 

 lower lip rather longer, cymbiform, subacute. 



AKozamb. Blst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Nyika Plateau, 6000- 

 7000 ft., Whyte ! between Mpata and Tanganyika Plateau, 2000-3000 ft., Whyte ! 

 and cultivated specimen ! 



