COLE’US BARBA’TUS. 
~~” BEARDED COLEUS. 
EXOGENZE oR DICOTYLEDONEZ. 
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COROLLIFLORA, DIDYNAMIA, 
OF eientern RMIA, 
DECANDOLLE, OF LINNEUS. 
GENU Ss. CoLEts. LovReEIR Catyx ovato 1 
dente supremo ovato-membra eae inferioribus angustioribus, omnibus vel 
infimis acutis. Conor ie exserto defr acto, — wigpews superiore brevi tri- 
vel quadri-fido, ius cymbiformi, genitalia 
ineludente, STAMINA qnatnor, declinata. Finawe NTA edentula, basi i iin tubum 
stylum vaginantem conna reniformes, 
Styxuvs apice subulatus, bifidus, stigmatibus subterminali ibus. CarPELLa sub- 
rotundo- ——— levin. HER BE rarius sufrut tices. VERTICILLASTRI sexflori 
1 multiflor i OLIA FLORALIA bractew- 
formia, per < tien sepius decidua. 
SPECIES. EUS BARBATUs (BENTHAM) caule Lk ——— adscendente 
tomentoso-hispido, —- seas widen crenati s basi angustatis molliter 
tomentosis, junioribus hispidis is lato-ovatis acuminatis 
in apice racemorum como i is per anthesin deciduis, racemis simplicibus, verticil- 
lastris sex ad ca dinaatibas calycibus fructiferis deflexis hispidis, fauce 
intus villosa, den eae = siete ejage inferioribus lanceolatis acutis 
ccbucuattbes. aie bio ximo cymbiformi 
CHARACTER OF THE ton + walling CaLyx ovate bell-shaped, 
with five teeth, of which the upper one is ovate membranous, the four 
lower narrower, all four, or at least the two lowest, pointed. Coronta 
with a tube projecting beyond the calyx, suddenly bent down; the 
limb two-lipped, the upper lip short and three- or four-cleft, the lower 
one entire, stalked, long, concave or boat-shaped. Stamens four, 
didynamous. FILAMENTS without teeth, joined together at the base 
in a tube inclosing the style; anthers ovate reniform; the cells con- 
fluent. Styze subulate, shortly bifid; the Same nearly terminal. 
CarPELs roundish, flattened, smooth. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, COLEUS BARBATUS. STEM peren- 
nial or shrubby at the base, branched and straggling below the flower- 
ing branches, ascending or erect, two or three feet high, more or less 
covered with stiff spreading articulate hairs. Leaves opposite, stalked 
ovate, blunt, crenated, narrowed at the base, rather thick and rough, 
REFERENCE Tro THE DissEcTIons. 
39 1, Stamina, showing their connectionin a sheath, 2, A detached flower. 
