624 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Fleetranthvs. 



Stem 1-2 feet. Jjeaves li-2i in., narrowed into the petiole, rather coriaceous, 

 nerves oblique. Fruiting calyx ^ in. Corolla and nutlets not seen. — The 

 specimens are hardly fit for description, but the species is too remarkable to be 

 passed over. 



DOTTBTFtri. SPECIES. 



p. Patchouli, Clarice mss. ; tall, erect, branched, hirsutely tomentose, leaves 

 petioled ovate-cordate crenatc-toothed, cymes branched, flowers subsecnndly sub- 

 sessile on the branchlets of a loose panicle, calyx-teeth subeqnal, corolla-limb 

 sabclavate with a large incurved cymbiform obtuse lower lip and shorter narrow 

 upper lip. 



ASSAM; Je»AJ»« (Herb. Calcutt.). Khasia Mts.j Johra, alt. 4000 ft., cult., 

 Clarke. 



Stem stout, branched. Leaves 2-3 in., hairy on both surfaces. O/mes panicled, 

 irregularly .branched; bracts small, leafy; pedicels ^Ij in. or 0. Calyx hardly 

 2-lipped, teeth acute. Corolla \\ in., tube slender, upper lip much shorter and 

 narrower than the saccate obtuse lower, which is much larger than the tube. — " This, 

 I am told, is the true Patchouli plant, and has the true scent, which Pogostemon 

 Patchouli has not." C. B. Clarice. I have seen no fruit, and the inflorescence is 

 very peculiar ; it may not be a Plectrant/ms. 



P.? MONTANUS, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 17, and inDC. Prodr.xW. 

 60 ; Wall. Cat. 2747 ; densely tomentose, stem short very robust, leaves shortly 

 petioled ovate or rounded crenate very thick rugose, racemes dense-fld. pyramidate, 

 branches very thick ascending, whorls close set but not confluent, flowers sessile or 

 pedicelled, calyx ^ in. hemispheric with 5 triangular subacute teeth, nutlets suborbi- 

 cular polished pale. — Mysore ; at Nundydroug, Klein, Serb. Bottler. — Habit of 

 P. coleoides, but calyx very diflerent. The specimens are very imperfect, and have 

 no corolla. 



Htssoptjs lophanthoidbs. Ham. in Don Pfodr. 110, referred to P. Qerariia- 

 Kus by Bentham, can hardly be that plant ; a specimen of it from Hamilton more 

 resembles P. striatus, being very pubescent. It may, however, be a haii'y form of 

 P. Oerardianus. 



OciMUM DENSIFIOBUM, Both Ifov. Sp. 275, doubtfully referred by Bentham to 

 P. mgosus, must be a very dififerent plant, according to the description. 



P. EOTUNDirOLllTS, Spreng. Syst. ii. 690; Benth. Lab. 34, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xii. 65 ; 6-rah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 148. Coleus ? rugosus, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. 

 ii. 15. Germania rotundifolia. Pair. Diet. ii. 763. Nepeta madagascariensis. Lam. P 

 Diet. i. 712. — Kurka, Bheede Sort. Mai. xi. t. 25 ? — A reputed native of Mauritius 

 and Coromandel ? The last habitat is no doubt founded on the supposed identity of 

 the Mauritian with the plant figured by Kheede, which represents a flowerless tuberi- 

 ferous herb which has not been identified. Local botanists should be able to discover 

 what Rheede's plant is. 



9. COIiEVS, Lour. 



Characters of Plectranthus, but filaments combined below into a sheath, 

 around the style. — Species about 50, Tropical African and Asiatic, and one 

 Australian. 



* Calyx-throat villous within. 



1. C. spicatus, BentL in Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 15, £016. 49, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 71 ; stem very stout villous with long spreading hairs or 

 glabrate, leaves subsessile obovate ovate or orbicular glabrous fleshy entire 

 or crenate, floral large concave deciduous, whorls in a dense cylindric spici- 

 form villous thyrse, upper calyx-lip very broad truncate. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1431 ; Wall. Cat. 2729. 0. Heynii, Benth. Lah. 50, and in DC. I. c. C. 

 Zatarhendi, Bale. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 206 ; ? Benth. Lab. 50> Plectranthus 



