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Pare 69 A.—Specimen of Plectranthus pharious Prain, from Phari ;—of natural size. 1, flower 
x 2; 2, fruiting calyx x 2; 3, half of corolla, showing staminal insertion x 2; 4, nutlets x 4. 
B Е; 
PLATE 69В. 
72. PrEcrRANTHUS Коват Praia in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lix. 9, 996 (1890). 
Natural order Labiate. 
A herb with simple, ascending, glabrous, rather flaccid, somewhat bluntly 4-angled 
stems 30—40 cm. high; leaves broadly orbicular, obtuse, 4--45 cm. long and 4—5 cm. 
wide, base cuneate, entire, narrowed gradually into a petiole proper 1—3 cm. long, beyond 
the middle with 3-7 wide serrations increasing forward, the terminal always largest, 
sometimes 775 em. long and 1% em. wide, always blunt; cymes disposed іп a narrow, 
solitary, terminal panicle shorter than stem or with also a few axillary racomes shorter 
than the leaves, the longest 6—10 cm. long, lax-flowered; calyx glabrous, 2 mm. long, 
teeth subequal, acute; corolla 7 mm. long, tube nearly straight, cylindric, gibbous at base 
above ; stamens not exserted ; nuileós minute, broadly ovoid, about 1 mm. long. 
біккім : between Ratong and Yoksum; 7. Anderson! Kurz ! 
This species most resembles Plectranthus excisus Maxim., from China, but is smaller 
in all its parts. 
Рьлте 69 B.—Specimen of Plectranthus Kurzii Prain, from Sikkim,—of natural size. 5, flower x 2; 
6, calyx, laid open, showing ovary and style x 2; 7, half of corolla, showing staminal insertion, x 2; 
`8, upper lip x 2; 9, lower lip x 2; 10, anthers x 6; 11, nutlets x 4. 
D. P. 
PLATE 70. 
79. PLECTRANTHUS Комзтревт Prain іп Journ. Аз. Soc. Deng. lxvi, 2. 521 (1897). 
Natural order Labiate. 
A stout herb, almost shrubby, 30—60 cm. high, everywhere finely puberulous ; 
leaves pale-green especially beneath and there sparsely glandular-puberulous, darker 
and faintly puberulous above, lamina ovate-acute with entire cuneate base and short 
entire sub-acuminate tip, margin elsewhere regularly crenate, 8—19 сш, long, 4—5 em. 
wide, petiole 4—5 cm. long; ewers in stout, branched panicles with ascending 
branches; сайт 95 mm, in fruit enlarging 5 mm. long, gland-dotted, two lower teeth 
subulate, lateral pair ovate-acute, upper orbicular-ovate ; coroll: pale-green, faintly 
dotted, 10 mm. long; tube decurved and gibbous at base, опе and-a-half times as long 
as the boat-shaped lower lip, upper lip short; filaments free from each other from 
the point where they become free from the corolla-tube ; пийе oblong, brown with 
darker tips, hardly shining. 
Maayan PENINSULA : Perak, at Kuala Dipong; Kunstler 8210! 
A very distinct species, nearest, on the whole, to Р, urticifolius Н, f. 
