THE FLORIST 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL, 



COLEDS BLUMEI. 



Labiatae § Ocimoideae, Benth. — Didynamia-Gjmnospermia. 



CHARACT. GENER. — " Calyx ovato-campanulatus, fructifer declinatus v. 

 reflexus, rarius sub e rectus, fauce intus nuda v. hispida, 5-dentatus v. bilabiatus, 

 dente supremo ovato, membranaceo, raarginibus rarius decurrentibus, inferioribus 

 angustioribus, omnibus acutis v. lateralibus ovato-truncatis, 2 infimis saepe inter 

 se connatis. Corolla tubo exserto declinato, decurvo v. saepius defracto, fauce 

 inflata v. aequali, limbo bilabiato, labio superiore abbreviato obtuse 5-4-fido, infer- 

 iore integro, elongato, concavo, saepius cymbiformi genitalia involvente. Stamina 

 4. Fdamenta edentula basi in 1ubum stylum vaginantum connexa. Stylus apice 

 subulatus, aequaliter bifidus. Nuculx subrotundo-compressae." 



" Herbae annua: v. basi perennantes, rarius frutices verticil lastra sexflora v. 

 sxpius multijlora, nunc densissima, nunc Lixct, cymbiformia, pedunculo communi 

 utriusque cymae ramisve utrinque binis plus minus elongatis. Folia floralia 

 bract exformia, ante anthesin ad apicern recemorum pluvminus comosa^ per anthesin 

 decidua v. rarius subpersistentia reflexa. — Species pleraeque asiaticre, perpaucae 

 africanae, " laeves 



" Coleus, Loureir. Fl. Cochinch. 



u Ocimi sp. L. et auct. 



u Plectranthi sp. Br. et auct. 



" Solenostemon, Schumach. PL Guin. — Benth. in DC. Prod. XL 70. 



CHARACT. SPECIF. — " C. foliis ovatis acuminatis grosse obtuse serratis basis 

 acutis et inte^errimis utrinque puberulis, verticillastris distinctis, pedicellis race- 

 mosis secundis, calycis hirsuti labio iriferiore trifido lacinia intermedia longiore 

 semibifida. " Benth. 



Coleus Blumei, Benth. Lab. p. 56. et in DC. Prodr. XL 73. 



Plectranthus scutellarioides, Blume Bijdf. p. 857 non Br. Vulgo : Djawer hot- 

 tok burrum, fide.... 



Djewer kottok mirha, fide Blume. 



Variegated plants are now "the fashion" in Europe. We have them this 

 year by the dozen, Begonias, Hoym, Niphceas, the Cissus discolor and the 

 subject of our present plate the Coleus Blumei, known in English gardens 

 as Plectranthus concolor pictus. 



It is a native of Java and was introduced from that Island to Holland in 

 18ol by Mr. Willink, an amateur of Amsterdam. Our plate was drawn 



January. 



