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MERRILL. 
C. trichotomum Thunb. FI. Jap. (1784) 256: Scliauer in DC. Prodr. 11 
(1847) 668; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1890) 262; Mats. & 
Hayata Enum. PI. Formosa (1906) 303. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3615 Fenix. N. v., Tungao. Luzon, Province 
of Isabela, Casiguran, 3114 M earns , June, 1907. 
Japan to Formosa, central and southern China; new to the Philippines. 
VITEX Linn. 
V. trifolia Linn. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3176 M earns. 
Along the seashore throughout the Philippines; British India to Formosa, 
Malaya, and Australia. 
V. ovata Thunb. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3212 M ear ns; 3644 Fenix. Camiguin, 4005 
Fenix. 
Common along the seashore throughout the Philippines; Japan to Formosa, 
southern China and Malaya. Possibly not specifically distinct from the preceding. 
LABIATE. 
LEON UR US Linn. 
L. sibiricus Linn. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3570 F6nix ; 3198 M earns. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; temperate and tropical regions of both 
Hemispheres, a native of the Old World. 
ANISOMELES R. Br. 
A. indica (Linn.) 0. Ktze. 
Camiguin, 4022 Fenix. 
Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; India to Formosa and 
Malaya. 
COLEUS Lour. 
Coleus pubescens Merrill sp. nov. 
Herba erecta, stricta, eirciter 75 cm alta; foliis utrinque densissime 
pubeseentibus, ovatis, coriaceis, petiolatis, dentato-crenatis, acutis, 4 ad 
6 cm longis ; racemis eirciter 20 cm longis, pubeseentibus ; floribus eirciter 
8 mm longis ; calyce hirsuto, lobis lateralibus obtusis. 
An erect unbranched herb about 75 cm high, rather densely pubescent. 
Stems angular, sulcate, pubescent, rather stout, brownish. Leaves coria- 
ceous, ovate, 4 to 6 cm long, 3 to 4 cm wide, densely pubescent on both 
surfaces, the apex acute, the margins distinctly crenate-dentate, the base 
acute or decurrent-acuminate; nerves about 5 on each side of the midrib; 
petioles pubescent, 1 to 1.5 cm long. Racemes about 20 cm long, pubes- 
cent, leafy below, the flowers 10 or 12 at each node, the internodes about 
1 cm long, the upper ones shorter. Pedicels slender, pubescent. Calyx 
hirsute, glandular, in anthesis about 3 mm long, in fruit 5 to 6 mm long, 
the posterior tooth elliptical-ovate, acute, the lateral ones obovate, rounded, 
