Coleus.] cii. LABIATE (baker). 441 



61. C. Marquesii, Briquet in Ann. Jard. Genev. ii. (1898) 239. 

 A shrub, with ascending branches, clothed with crisped hairs. Leaves 

 petioled, broadly ovate, 2-4 in. long, acuminate, membranous, dull 

 green and pubescent above, clothed with grey tomentum beneath, 

 membranous. Cymes compound, 10-15-flowered, forming long lax 

 racemose panicles ; pedicels long, clothed with crisped hairs and stalked 

 glands ; bracts ovate, deciduous. Flower-calyx yV-^ in. long, clothed 

 with glands and spreading hairs ; upper tooth ovate, violet ; lateral teeth 

 short, narrow, obtuse ; lower longer, acute, connate nearly to the apex. 

 Corolla violet, protruding nearly 1 in. from the throat of the calyx. 

 Stamens included. Style exserted. — Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. 

 xvi. 70. 



JmO-wbt Guinea. Angola : in the valleys of the Kuango and Cuillo (? Kuilu) 

 Rivers, Marques, 191. 



Q2. C. aconitiflorus, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. HOG. 

 A tall much-branched herb, 3-4 ft. high, with square glabrous stems and 

 ascending branches. Leaves long-petioled, oblong, membranous, crenate, 

 glabrous, cuneate and entire at the base, the lower 3-4 in. long, l-J-2 in. 

 broad at the middle. Branches each bearing at the end a long lax narrow 

 panicle, with several flowers crowded at the end of the short erecto- 

 patent branchlets ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute. Calyx campanu- 

 late, pubescent, yV-|^ in. long ; teeth ovate, small, subequal. Corolla 

 J in. long ; tube slender, much longer than the calyx. 



IiO\(rer Guinea. Angola : province of Huilla ; at LopoUo, Welwitsch, 5495 ! 



63. C. Briquetii, Baker. A tall branched herb, with green 

 glabrescent stems. Leaves petioled, oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, 

 1-1 1 in. broad, acuminate, narrowed to the base, serrate, membranous, 

 green and glabrous on both surfaces. Inflorescence racemose, long, 

 dense at the middle ; whorls many-flowered ; cymes shortly peduncled, 

 not umbellate; pedicels \ in. long. Calyx in flower J lin. long, in fruit 

 much larger ; upper tooth ovate, decurrent ; lateral teeth orbicular ; 

 lower acuminate, connate in the lower half. Corolla protruded J in. from 

 the throat of the calyx ; lower lip \-\ in. 'long. Stamens not exserted. — 

 C. Schiveinfurthii, Briquet in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 181, not of Vatke. 



irile Iiand. British East Africa : Bongo territory, Schweinfurth, 2490 ! 



64. C. montanus, Gilrke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 218. Stems 

 branched, pubescent, lJ-2 ft. long. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 

 1-1 J in. long, the upper sessile, the lower shortly stalked, acute, 

 rounded or narrowed to the base, crenate, pubescent on both sides, 

 dotted with black glands beneath. Inflorescence racemose, lax ; cymes 

 long-peduncled, 3-5-flowered ; bracts broadly ovate; pedicels J-J in. 

 long. Fruit-calyx J in. long, glandular-pubescent outside, naked on the 

 throat inside; upper tooth round-ovate, obtuse; lateral teeth rather 

 shorter, lanceolate, acuminate ;• lower longer, almost subulate. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons, near Buea, 7000 ft., Fretua, 1012. 



