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MERRILL. 
mate branchlets, the middle one of each triad sessile or sub- 
sessile, the two lateral ones pedicelled; bracts triangular-ovate, 
acute, 1.5 mm long, deciduous. Calyx cup-shaped, about 2.5 mm 
long, very slightly appressed-pubescent, truncate or very ob- 
scurely 5-toothed. Corolla-tube about 6 mm long, villous within, 
outside densely brown-pubescent above, the upper lip 2-lobed, the 
lobes oblong-ovate, 3.5 to 4 mm long, the lower lip much larger, 
3-lobed, the middle lobe orbicular, 5 mm in diameter, the two 
lateral ones oblong-ovate, obtuse, 3 mm long, both lips densely 
brown-pubescent on both surfaces. Filaments villous below. 
Style 10 mm long. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Tangob, For. Bur. 195^6 Klermne, May 
7, 1911, growing near the mountains, locally known to the Visayans as 
fugaspan or sasalit. 
A species well characterized by its 3- and 5-foliolate leaves, the lower 
two leaflets, when present, much reduced, its axillary, peduncled cymes, trun- 
cate calyx, and densely pubescent corolla. It is most closely allied to 
Vitex pentaphylla Merr., but is apparently sufficiently distinct from that 
species. 
LABIATAE. 
COLEUS Lour. 
COLEUS AMBOINICUS Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 372. 
Marrubium album Amboinicum Rumph. Herb. Amboin. 5 (1747) 294, 
t. 102, f. 2. 
Coleus aromaticus Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. 2 (1831) 15, Lab. Gen. 
Sp. (1832-36) 51, DC. Prodr. 12 (1848) 72; Hook. f. FI. Brit. 
Ind. 4 (1885) 635; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 163. 
Coleus suganda Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 483, ed. 2 (1845) 337; Miq. 
FI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1856) 948. 
Luzon, Manila, Merrill 7568, sterile specimen. 
This species is found in the Philippines only in cultivation, and is locally 
known by the Tagalog name suganda, and the Spanish name oregano. Its 
probable origin is the Malayan region, and it is certainly of prehistoric 
introduction in the Philippines. The species very rarely produces flowers 
in the Philippines, a fact already noted by Blanco. Although this species 
has been known to me many years I have never seen a flowering specimen 
and hence have hesitated in considering it. Material of the above number 
was sent to Kew for comparison, eliciting the statement that the leaf 
specimens supplied agree with Ceylon material of Coleus amboinicus, and 
with the figure given by Rumphius. Although no Philippine flowering- 
material is available I consider the specimens certainly to represent Blanco’s 
Coleus suganda, which species is identical with Coleus aromaticus Benth. = 
Coleus amboinicus Lour., a reduction already made by F.-Villar. Coleus 
amboinicus Lour, was based in part on botanical material from plants 
cultivated in Cochichina, and on several references to pre-Linnean liter- 
ature including the description and plate given by Rumphius, which he 
erroneously cites as 1. 8 c. 75. tab. 72, the reference apparently taken from 
