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There are no specimens of this species in the Bentham collec- 
tions at the Kew Herbarium. There i 
erb. Hooke 
riting, stating that the plant was grown at Kew Garde 
iting on and plate in the Botanical Magazine. 
ine wee endenily reoted Sy Hooker = a Aes specimen: 
he | with that of d to. 
Monens in 1 1856 describes the variety C. Blumei pectinatus as 
in having 
at the base of the leaf-blade was cuneate, as in the parent 
‘Coleus Nita laid was oF named in 1861 by Lemoine, who 
C. Blume. It appears that this 
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oe ed that it 
plan aie os Rotterdam in 1860 from Java. 
Colored plates (Ti. He 8: pl. 203, and Ho lor. Mag. 2: #1. 96) 
show this species were richly and deeply colored 
with crimson on both Sis ond that ihe bases of the leaf- 
blades were not cuneate but heart-shaped. Being richer in 
1 + pws ree | id hI +t th 
In 1864 (Gard. Chron. p. 506), a sport of this 
species called marmoratus, with bright green patches in its leaves, 
was described. 
Concerning C. Meee sa eae es in apa ae 
the expression of red color: 
and suggests that one ae Sie the red ser keeping t the 
plants in the shade. Later, in 1866, he notes fluctuations that 
s of a dwarf bushy habit. The leaves were large a “oO: 
