Colebrookia.} LABIATE. 277 
amalgamation of the 2 cells. Ovary 4-lobed and -celled, with a 
solitary erect ovule in each cell; style simple, 2-lobed, arising from 
the centre of the ovary. Fruit of 4 small l-seeded nuts enclosed 
in the calyx. Albumen none. Embryo straight or slightly in- 
curved, the radicle inferior ; cotyledons thick.—Herbs or shrubs, 
%* Stamens straight or diverging; corolla-tube hardly 
longer than the calyx-tube, the limb almost equally 4-5- 
cleft. 
Anthers 2-celled, the cells parallel ; fruiting calyx pappose, ad- 
hering to the achenes_ . ‘ : : F 4 . Colebrookia. 
* x S ns ascending, didynamous ; corolla 2-lipped ; 
calyx veined, 5-10-nerved. 
Stamens exserted ; achenes at the apex long-membranously pro- 
duced ‘ . : . “ . ‘ . . Colquhounia. 
COLEBROOKIA, Sm. 
Calyx bell-shaped, equal, 5-parted, feathery, turning pappose in 
fruit, adhering to the achenes. Corolla as long as the calyx-tube, 
the limb very short, almost equal, 5-cleft, the upper lobe notched. 
Anthers 4, distant, almost sessile, parallely 2-celled. Disk glandless. 
Style deeply 2-cleft, the lobes subulate-—Tomentose shrubs or 
undershrubs. 
1. C. oppositifolia, Sm.—A large shrub or shrubby undershrub, 
all softer parts more or less greyish tomentose ; leaves opposite, 
lanceolate to linear- and oblong-lanceolate, acute or somewhat 
rounded at the base, on a densely pubescent petiole 4-3 in. long, 
ong-acuminate, 5-7 in. long, crenulate, thick-membranous, above 
shortly puberulous and green, beneath more or less greyish tomen- 
‘ose ; flowers minute, in dense 1-3 in. long sessile spikes collected 
into a terminal tomentose panicle furnished with a pair of floral 
leaves at the base; calyx-tube very short, the teeth subulate, elon- 
gating in fruit and becoming elegantly feathery; corolla tubular, 
contracted at the middle, the limb-lobes ovate, very short; style 
*xserted ; achenes oblong, almost triquetrous, villous at the apex. 
Hap.—Ava, Kakhyen hills ; Tenasserim.—Fr. March. 
COLQUHOUNIA, Wall. 
Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, 10-nerved, almost curved and almost 
oy _ 5-toothed, naked at the throat. Corolla 2-lipped, the 
Upper lip erect, entire, the lower almost spreading and 3-lobed, the 
tube exserted and incurved. Stamens 4, ascending, didynamous, 
