622 cxn. LABIATE. ( J. D. Hooker.) [Plectranthuk. 



slender clecurved longer than the short lower lip, fruiting calyx campanulate, 

 lips short upper rounded, teeth of lower with subulate tips, nutlets globose 

 smooth or rugose. Wall. Cat. 2737. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; near Courtailuin and Dindigul, Herb. Bottler, Wight. 

 CEYLON (var. Gardneri). 



Stem a foot high, flaccid, vaguely branched. Leaves 1^-2 in. long and broad, 

 flaccid ; petiole as long. Corolla s in. long, pubescent. Fruiting calyx dimorphic, 

 larger in., with deeply pitted brown nutlets; smaller in., with smooth pale 

 nutlets. The specimens 'in Wallich's, Wight's, and Bottler's Herbaria are very im- 

 perfect. 



VAR. Gardneri ; leaves narrowed into the petiole, purplish when dry. P. Gardneri, 

 Thivaites Enum. 237. Ceylon ; Central Province, Adam's Peak, &c., Walker, &c. 



25. P. Parish!!, HooTc.f. ; annual, puberulous, flaccid, branched, leaves 

 orbicular-ovate narrowed into the very long petiole coarsely crenate or 

 lobulate, cymes in lax-fld. racemes, corolla in., tube very slender with the 

 inflated throat much longer than the narrow lip. 



TENASSERIM ; Moulmein, Parish. 



Stem succulent, 6-10 in. Leaves 2 in. long and broad, membranous, obtuse. 

 Calyx minute in flower; peduncles and pedicels pubescent ; lower lip with subulate 

 teeth. Corolla with pale blue lower lip. Fruiting calyx ^ in., broadly campanulate, 

 subequally very shortly 2-lipped; upper lip triangular, tip subulate; teeth of lower 

 similar but narrower. Nutlets very pale. I have but one specimen of this very 

 distinct species. 



26. P. zeylanicus, Benth. Lab. 36, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 66; tall, 

 slender, densely finely glandular- pubescent, leaves shortly petioled orbicular- 

 cordate crenate, flowers minute whorled in very long slender racemes, corolla- 

 tube longer than the short lower lip, fruiting calyx minute subspheric, upper 

 lip rounded mucronate, teeth of lower subulate. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, at Ramboddi, Gardner. (Commonly cultivated in 

 native gardens as a medicine, unknown wild, Thioaites.) 



Stem 2-3 ft., stout, succulent, naked. Leaves in few pairs, 1-4 in. diam., 

 rather thick. Racemes 6-12 in., very narrow ; flowers in 6-10-fld. whorls on the 

 main rachis ; pedicels in. Corolla \ in. long, slightly curved, tube hardly gibbous 

 at the base. Fruiting calyx 7 ' g in., densely glandular-pubescent like the whole raceme. 

 Nutlets not seen. 



27. P. coleoides, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 64 ; very stout, branched, 

 glandular-tomentose or glabrate, leaves long-petioled ovate or orbicular-ovate 

 crenate obtuse, flowers racemed on the branches of a pyramidal densely 

 glandular-tomentose panicle, corolla pubescent, tube about equalling the lower 

 lip, upper lip of fruiting calyx rounded, teeth of lower lanceolate acuminate, 

 nutlets oblong black shining. Sot. Mag. t. 5841 ; Saunders Refug. Sot. 

 t. 256. Coleus Wightii, Benth. Lab. 58, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 78; Wight 

 Ic. t. 1433. C. glabratus, Benth. Lab. 58, and in DC. 1. c. C. panicu- 

 latus, Benth. in Wall. Plant. As. Ear. ii. 79 ; Wall. Cat. 2734, and in DC. 

 I.e. 



XTT.GHIRI and ANAMALLAY MTS.; ascending to 7000 ft. in moist places, Wight y 

 Perrottet, &c. 



Stem 2-3 ft., succulent. Leaves 1-4 in. diam., fleshy; petiole as long as the 

 blade. Panicles thyrsiform, sometimes 1 foot across the lower branches. Corolla 

 -if in. long, lilac; lower lip ciliate. Stamens included. Fruiting calyx very variable, 

 broad straight and campanulate, or narrowed and curved. 



28. P. urticifolius, Hook. f. ; very robust, glabrous except the 



