1893.] D. Pram — A review of the genus Colquhounia. 31 



Tlie Labiate of the H. E. I. Company's Herbarium were distri- 

 buted by Wallich in 1829 ;* Bentham, who revised for Wallich the 

 naming of this particular order, treated these two species somewhat 

 differently. In G. coccinea he recognized three distinct forms : — f 



(1). C. coccinea proper ; the pink-flowered plant originally des- 

 cribed in Trans. Linn. Soc, and re-described in Tent. 

 Flor. Nap. 

 (2). var. /8. major Benth. ; the Nepalese plant from higher levels 

 and with denser tomentum, treated by Wallich as identical 

 with the plant from Kamaon that he distinguished specifi- 

 cally from G. coccinea. 

 (3). var. y. parviflora Benth. ; an orange-flowered plant, not 

 clearly differentiated by Wallich in either of his descrip- 

 tions, but figured by him in the Tentamen as typical G. 

 coccinea. 

 On the other hand the name 0. vestita was strictly limited to the 

 plant from Kamaon already referred to, which had been communicated 

 to Wallich by Blinkworth,J and a new species from Burma, G. elegans, 

 was for the first time mentioned. § In the same year Bentham in 

 another place defined the genus, mentioning all three species, but 

 not there distinguishing the varieties of G. coccinea.\\ 



In 1832 Wallich again dealt with these Golquhounias, figuring both 

 G. vestita and G. elegans.^ He diagnosed 0. vestita from G. coccinea by 

 its " ovate-oblong much attenuate acuminate leaves, very densely hoary 

 tomentose below, as are the branches," adding that this character 

 comprises all the points in which C. vestita differs from G. coccinea. 

 From the original specimens it is evident that this figure of C. vestita 

 was taken from one of Blinkworth's Kamaon specimens ; Wallich did 

 not however adopt Bentham's limitation of G. vestita to that locality, for 

 he replaced in the species the Nepalese plant that forms Bentham's 

 G. coccinea var. major. In immediate sequence come the definition and 

 figure of G. elegans, the Burmese species ; of this he mentions having 

 only seen one shrub ; the best distinction, Wallich says, between this 

 and G. coccinea, which it much resembles, is the colour of the flowers — 

 orange, dotted with crimson specks, instead of red. The plant is des- 

 cribed as having leaves very softly tomentose on both surfaces, an idea 



* Lith. Cat. n. 2084—6. 



f Wall. Lith. Cat. n. 2085/1, 2085/0, 2085/7- 



X Wall. Lith. Cat. n. 2086. 



§ Wall. Lith. Cat. n. 2084. 



|| Bentham, Synops. Labiat. in Bot. Reg., xv, sub 1292. 



f Plant. As. Bar., iii, 43, tt. 267, 268. 



