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Coleus edulis, Vatke in Linnea xxxvii., p. 319. 
C. tuberosus, Richard Fl. Abyssin. ii., p. 185, not of Benth. 
A native of Abyssinia, where, according to Quartin Ape (Richard, 
loc. cit.), it is largely cultivated under the name of Daunech in the 
numerous gardens around the village s Kouaieta at an d^ epit of 
6,000-7, 000 feet above sca Ud el The ers are said to resemble and 
taste like eat and, jud frons the specimen in the Kew 
Herbarium, Gres o be ‘reely produced and abound in starch grains. 
Accordin Vat. fod loc. cit, Schimper collected this plant at an 
elevation of 8 200 feet, so that it is probable it might be successfully 
cultivated in this €— and as the tubers appear to be of good size, 
should be worthy of a t 
Coleus lanuginosus, Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prod. xii., p. 79, 
C. albidus, Vatke i in E puce xxxvii., p. 321. 
A native of Abyss 
This plant promites small tubers that are fleshy and filled with 
starch. 
Coleus tuberosus, Benth. Labiate, p. 59, and in DC. Prod. xii., 
p. 79 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii., p. 953; Gard. Chron. 1893, xix., p. 188. 
C. parviflorus, Benth. in D C. Prod. xii., p. 72; Hook. fil., Fi. Brit. 
Ind. iv., p. 625. 
Plectranthus nite Blume Bijdr. p. 838; Thwaites Enum. 
Ceylon PL., p. 
Glans terrestris ` costensis, Rumph. Herb. Amboin, v., p. 372, 
t. 132, 
Re country of this plant is somewhat doubtful. It is. 
taluvad in Java, Amboina, and other ae of the Malay Archi- 
ago, and in Ceylon, where, according to a note by Gardner in = 
o -— 
^, Kew Herbarium, it is “cultiv: 
Thwaites also states that the: Cinghalese. cultivate it for the 
-* its tuberous roots, which are eaten as a vegetable" Rumphius a 
rather a full account of the plant, stating that it is eaten boiled and 
roasted, and had been recently introduced into Amboina from Java an 
Baly. . He further suggests that it was probably introduced into the 
islands from the Malay Peninsula. On the other hand he tells us that 
H e common name employed by the Portuguese for the plant is “ Gotte 
“ Kelingan or Gotte Kelin, probably because it is much cultivated on the 
* Coromandel coast, the inhabitants of which are called Kelin or Quellin." 
Neither Roxburgh nor Wight and Arnot, however, mention the plant in 
ed 
their works, although there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium 
by Wight, at Quilon (No. 2105, s d Kew distribution), but the 
labels:do not state whether it was wild or —€——À f of it | 
—now in cultivation at — and a note concerning it 
Kew Bulletin "ad 1892, p. 313. 
s im Revue des Sciences Naturelle Appliquées, 1891, P hi is 
UA E ec of a labiate sent to Paris from the Trans by 
Mingta in 1884, under the m: of Pomme de terre sauv LZ or 
Matambala of the Magwainbas. | Two tubers of the plant were taken by 
M. Pierre to the F lwith ereat 
rapidity and is now cultivated, and according to M. Pierre, it is known 
in the interior and on the coast under the name of Pomme de terre de 
Madagascar. Some of the tubers were cultivated in the Jardin 
tuberosus, Benth. The history is, however, not free from doubt, as * 
