626 oxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Coleus. 



5. C. scutellarioides, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 1 6, Lab. 53, 



and in DC. Prodr. xii. 73 ; tall, slender, glabrous or minutely hairy, leaves 

 petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate crenate membranous, whorls 

 in distant slender puberulous racemes laxly many-fld., upper calyx-lip ovate, 

 lateral teeth of lower obtuse, lowest acute. Wall. Cat. 2732. Ocimum 

 scutellarioides, Linn. ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 130 ; Sot. Mag. t. 1446. Plectran- 

 thus scutellarioides, Br. Prodr. 506; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 21. P. nudiflorus, 

 Willd. Sp. PL iii. 168. Germania nudiflora, Poir. Diet. Suppl. ii. 763. 



Cultivated in INDIA. DISTBJB. Malay Islands, Australia. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves 1-3 in., usually purplish beneath, base rounded or cuneate. 

 Floivers | in., white with a blue lower lip, tube abruptly decurved. Stamens included. 

 There are several very distinct varieties described from Australia (Benth. Fl. Austral. 

 v. 30). 



6. C. atropurpureus, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 17, Lab. 

 54, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 74; tall, slender, finely pubescent, leaves long- 

 petioled broadly ovate or rounded obtuse or acute coarsely crenate, flowers 

 in lax whorled cymes which form narrow panicles, upper calyx-lip ovate sub- 

 acute, teeth of lower variable, two lowest aristate. Nunes Fl. Filip. t. 208; 

 Wall. Cat. 2733. 



MALACCA, PENANG and SINGAPOEK ; Wallich, &c. DISTBIB. Malay and Pacific 

 Islands. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves 2-4 in., membranous, base rounded truncate or cuneate ; 

 petiole 1-2 in. Cymes irregularly branched, peduncled ; flowers pedicelled. Corolla 

 $ in. , much as in C. scutellarioides. Stamens included. Fruiting calyx variable, 

 -i in. long. 



7. C. malabaricus, Benth. in Wall. PL An. Rar. ii. 16, Lab. 57, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xii. 76 ; glabrous, puberulous or villous, leaves large 

 membranous long-petioled ovate or lanceolate acute or acuminate crenate, 

 flowers laxly -cymose or racemose on the branches of spreading panicles, 

 fruiting calyx broad membranous, upper lip large rounded acute, teeth of 

 lower longer acuminate. Wall. Cat. 2735; Thwaites Enum. 238. C. ovatus 

 & Macraei, Benth. Lab. 57, 58, and in DC. I. c. 76, 77. C. Macraei, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4690. C. Walkeri, Benth. in DC. I. c. 77. 



TEAVANCOBE and the NILGHIBI MTS. ; Wight, Gardner. CEYLON; common 

 up to 6000 ft. 



Stem 2-3 ft., usually dark purple, as are the leaves beneath and peduncles, pedicels, 

 and calyx. Leaves 3-6 in., petiole often as long, base rounded, cuneate or narrowly 

 cordate; floral caducous. Panicles usually pyramidal ; branches with distant whorls 

 of cymes ; flowers |-1 in. long. Calyx in. Jong and broad. Corolla-tube pale lilac, 

 abruptly decurved, throat inflated ; upper lip short, crenate, dark blue ; lower boat- 

 shaped, acute, pale. Stamens included. Very variable. 



VAB. moilis; leaves softly pubescent. C. molli?, Benth. in D.C. I.e. 77. 

 Ceylon. 



VAE. leptostachys ; puberulous, leaves narrowly oblong or lanceolate, flowers 

 smaller. Ceylon. 



8. C. inflatus, Benth. Lab. 58, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 78; stout, 

 glabrous or puberulous, leaves long-petioled ovate or lanceolate acuminate 

 toothed or serrate, base cuneate, cymes lax-fld. racemed on the branches of 

 a pyramidal panicle, corolla- tube very long flexuous, lips very small, calyx 

 membranous, upper lip ovate acuminate, lateral teeth of lower small, lowest 

 longer acuminate. Bot. Mag. t. 5236. Wawra, Itin. Pr. S. Cob. Bot. 105. 

 C. Benthamianus, Am. Pugill. 36, and in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xviii. 354. 



