LABIATAE. — ELSHOLTZIA 381 



Yunnan: Szemao, mountains to east, alt. 1200 m., A. Henry (No. 12607; 

 climber, red flowers). 



Though Prain says that if C. elegans, var. paudflora is considered specifically dis- 

 tinct this would necessitate also the recognition of var. tenuiflora as a distinct 

 species, I am inclined to keep it as a variety of C. elegans. Its flowers have the same 

 short upper lip and long though slenderer corolla, and the plant is pubescent 

 throughout, though not quite as densely as in typical C. elegans. The inflorescence 

 may vary on the same plant; particularly on the long scandent stems the inflores- 

 cences in the lower axils elongate into shorter or longer racemes, while toward the 

 end of the stems they change gradually into dense, nearly sessile heads. 



Colquhounia coccinea Wallich, var. mollis Prain in Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, LXII. 

 37 (1893). — Diels in Not. Bat. Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 46, 47, 245 (1912). 



Colquhounia vestita Bentham in De Candolle, Prodr. XII. 457 (non Wallich) 



(1848), quoad plantam Assamicam. — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. 674 



(1885), exclud. pi. Kumaonica. — Collett & Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. 



XXVII. 116 (1890). 

 Colquhounia mollis Schlechtendal in Linnaea, VIII. 681 (1851). — Walpers, 



Ann. V. 689 (1858). 

 Colquhounia tomenlosa Jacques in Jour. Soc. Hort. France, VII. 47, 179 (1861). — 



Houllet in Rev. Hort. 1873, 131. 

 Colquhounia vestita, var. rugosa, C. B. Clarke mss. ex Prain in Jour. As. Soc. 



Bengal, LXII. 37 (pro synon.) (1893). 



Yunnan : " inter Yangpi et Tengyueh, in dumetis mont. ad vias," alt. 2600 m., 

 October 1914, C. Schneider (No. 2630); "ad lat. mont. prope Tali in dumetis 

 apertis," alt. 3000 m., September 1914, C. Schneider (No. 3886). 



This variety differs from the type chiefly in its rusty pubescence and in the 

 crenulate leaves. Schneider's specimens have capitate and racemose inflorescences 

 on the same branch. 



ELSHOLTZIA. 

 Elsholtzia fruticosa Rehder, n. comb. 



Colebrookia oppositifolia Loddiges, Bot. Cab. V. t. 487 (non Smith) (1820). 



Perilla fruticosa D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 115 (1825). 



Mentha fruticosa Roxburgh mss. ex D. Don, 1. c. (pro synon.) (1825). 



Aphanochilus polystachyus Bentham in Wallich, Cat. No. 1554 (nomen nudum) 

 (1828); in WalHch, PI. As. Par. I. 28, t. 33 (1830). 



Elsholtzia polystachya Bentham, Labiat. 116 (1832); in De Candolle, Prodr. 

 XII. 160 (1848). —Gamble, Man. Indian Timbers, 301 (1881). — Hooker 

 f., Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. 643 (1885). — Hemslev in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 268 

 (1890). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 561 (1900). — Collett, Fl. Siml. 388, 

 fig. 123 (1902). — Brandis, Lnd. Trees, 516 (1906). — Diels in Not. Bot. 

 Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 47 {PI. Chin. Forrest.) (1912). — Dunn in Not. Bot. 

 Gard. Edinburgh, V. 150 (1915). 



Elsholtzia tristis L6veill(5 in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. VIII. 424 (1910). 



Elsholtzia Dielsii Leveill6, 1. c. IX. 441 (1911). 



Elsholtzia Soulei L6veill<5, 1. c. 248 (1911). 



Western Szech'uan: Min River valley, north of Kuan Hsien, 

 alt. 600-1200 m., August and November 1908 (No. 3532; sub-shrub 



