1897.] D. Pram — More additional species of Labiata?. 521 



Though belonging to the group that includes 0. scapiger, 0. stamineus and 

 O. Parishii it is, as the description will indicate, remarkably distinct from all three. 

 It has somewhat the fades of a Coleus but the stamens are quite free and the stigma 

 is not bifid. 



8. PLECTRANTHUS L'Herit. 



§ Coleoides (F. B. I. iv. 621). 



286. Plectranthus Kunstleri Train; rather stout, everywhere 

 finely puberulous, leaves pale-green, large, petioled, ovate-acute with 

 entire cuneate base and short entire sub-acuminate tip, margin else- 

 where regularly crenate, cymes in stout branched panicles, corolla-tubo 

 exceeding the narrow lower lip, fruiting calyx rather large, two lower 

 teeth subulate, two lateral ovate-acute, upper orbicular-ovate, nutlets 

 oblong brown with darker tips, hardly shining. 



Perak ; Kwala Dipong, Kunstler n. 8240 ! 



. A shrubby plant 2-3 feet high. Leaves pale -green especially beneath and there 

 sparsely glandular puberulous, darker and similarly faintly puberulous above, laminaa 

 8-12 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide, petiole 4-5 cm. long. Panicle large, branches ascend- 

 ing, flowers racemed. Fruiting calyx 5 mm. long, gland-dotted. Corolla pale-green 

 faintly dotted, 10 mm. long, tube decurved and gibbous at base, one and a half times 

 as long as boat shaped lower-lip ; upper-lip rather short. Filaments free from each 

 other from the point at which they are free from the corolla tube. 



A very distinct species though nearest, on the whole, to P. urticifolius. 



30b. Plectranthus fulvescens Frain; erect, branched, the in- 

 florescence hirsutely fulvous-tomentose elsewhere glabrescent, leaves 

 lanceolate margin finely crenate except at the narrow-cuneate base 

 decurrent on the longish petiole, flowers whorled in long slender narrow 

 racemes, corolla tube slender, longer than the lower lip, fruiting calyx 

 densely fulvous with spreading hairs, two lower teeth acute, two lateral 

 ovate faintly serrate, upper entire broad rounded, nutlets oblong, brown, 

 shining. Coleus fulvescens Kurz MSS. in Herb. Calcutta. 



Burma ; Attran, Brandis 811 ! 



Stem 4-angled glabrous below. Leaves faintly puberulous above, glabrous be- 

 neath, pale-green, membranous 10-15 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, tapering from the 

 middle to an acuminate tip and a narrow cuneate base passing into a petiole 1-3 

 cm. long. Racemes 10-16 cm. long, 2 cm. in diam., leafless, rather dense-fld., rachis 

 very hirsute with spreading tawny hairs, whorls 6-fld., flowers pedicelled. Fruiting 

 calyx 6 mm. long slightly contracted above the nutlets. Corolla 8 mm., tube 

 decimate, curved, apparently white, lips pale-blue. 



The whorls of flowers somewhat resemble those of Coleus spicatus but they are 

 more distant. Mr. Kurz has placed this in Coleus but the filaments are quite free 

 from each other from the point where they are free from the corolla tube. The 

 arrangement, however, below this point is such as to strongly support the view 

 expressed by Sir Joseph Hooker {F. B. I. iv. 616) that at least all the species of 



