266 104. VERBENACES. 
Hance in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 13; Maxim. in Mél. Biol. xii. 
p. 524. 
Avicennia tomentosa, Jacq. ; Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. p. 44, t. 271 ; Wight, 
Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 1481. 
Foxen: island of Kulangsu, Amoy (Sampson, hb. Hance !) ; 
Formosa: Takow (Playfair!); Kwanerune: Cape Syngmoon 
(Meyen ex Walpers) ; Hosakoxa : salt-water swamps (Ford !). 
Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
Maritime swamps almost throughout the tropies. 
[Dissolena verticillata, Lour. (Fl. Cochinch. p. 138), is said to 
be a Verbenacea (DC. Prodr. viii. p. 318), but we have seen no 
specimen, and it is not included in Schauer’s Monograph of the 
Verbenaces in DeCandolle's * Prodromus) On the other hand, 
Heuriques records it ( Bol. Soc. Brot. iii. p. 144) from Kwangtung, 
collected by J. Gomez da Silva. ] 
105. LABIATA. 
1. Ocimum Basilicum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 597; Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. xii. p. 32; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 608; Bretschn. 
Early Res. p. 166. 
Cururr: Peking( Bretschneider !) ; Kaxasv: Shanghai (Faber); 
KiawGsi: Kiukiang (Shearer!); Kwanerune (Ford!). Herb. 
Kew. 
Cultivated throughout China, India, Malaya, and Polynesia ; 
also in Africa and America. Believed to be indigenous in North- 
west India. 
2. Ocimum canum, Sims, Bot. Mag.t.2452 (stamineum in textu); 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. xi. p. 32; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 
p. 607. 
Yunnan (Anderson). Herb. Kew. 
This species is also very widely cultivated and naturalized, and 
is probably indigenous in tropical Asia. 
3. Ocimum sanctum, Lina. Mant. p. 85; DC. Prodr. xii. p. 88; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 609. 
Formosa (Playfair!) ; Haiwan (A. Henry!). Herb. Kew. 
Throughout the warmer parts of Asia, and extending to Aus- 
tralia and Polynesia. Commonly cultivated. 
