principles upon which the value of that system is supposed to depend, - 
its artificial preciseness, to be acted upon without regard to natural 
affinities, the Colei should be removed from the Class of Didynamia 
to be placed under Monadelphia. Modifications in the calyx and 
inflorescence furnish three distinct divisions or sections in the genus 
to which the names of Calceolus, Aromaria and Solenostemon have 
been given, and the latter has again been subdivided into three others 
on the same principle; the species here figured belongs to the section 
Calceolus, having the apparently verticillate inflorescence and reflexed 
calyx of Ocimum. 
The whole tribe of Ocimoidex, including, besides the above-men- 
tioned plants, the extensive American genus Hyptis, with some small 
groups allied to it, and the European Lavender, is, perhaps, the most 
marked amongst Labiate by the direction of the stamens, which are 
declinate, or bent downwards upon the lower lip of the corolla, instead 
of ascending against the upper lip, as in most other Labiate. It was 
this circumstance that induced Linneus and his immediate followers to 
suppose the flower to be resupinate, and that what appeared to be the 
lower lip was, in fact, the u per one; but, when once the ‘study of 
nature of the different organs of plants, the error was detected. It was 
long since pointed out by Poiteau, and fully explained by Brown, and 
yet there remain determined followers of Linneus, who, because he 
made great strides in the advancement of the science, think that no 
one could, after him, go still farther; and in this respect as in so man 
others, still persist in copying his characters, as the best that human 
ingenuity can invent. 
The Colei are spread over the tropical regions of the old world, not 
one of them having yet been found in America. One species, belong- 
ing to the section Solenostemon has been gathered in Western Africa, 
the remainder of that section are natives of the warmer parts of India, and 
of the islands of the Indian ocean, especially of the Indian archipelago, 
where there are probably numerous species yet unknown. Aromaria 
includes only one species, the Coleus aromaticus, a native of the 
Indian peninsula. The Calceoli are mountain plants from the Arabian 
and Indian peninsula, as well as from the Himalayas. Coleus bar- 
batus is not uncommon amongst rocks at a moderate elevation, in 
Nepal, Kamaon, Mysore, as well as the peninsula. 
The Coleus aromaticus, mentioned above, is much cultivated in 
India for the strong aromatic smell of its leaves, which they preserve 
in our stoves, where the plant is frequently to be met with, and 
deserves attention on that account, although its flowers are not 
showy. They are, however, interesting as being usually in a peculiar 
state of monstrosity, which shows what is the normal structural type 
of the Labiate. It has long been admitted that, as in the greater 
