112 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
LABIATE. 
Ocimum sanctum, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 609.—Meiktila. 
Generally spread in the warmer parts of Asia and extending to 
Australia and Polynesia, but commonly cultivated. 
Ocimum exsul, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Herba, ut videtur, perennis O. striato (species Afriez tropicæ 
incola) simillima, eaulibus erectis simplicibus hispidulis, inter- 
nodiis quam folia brevioribus. Folia breviter petiolata, crassius- 
eula, hispidula, vel supra glabra, anguste obovato-lanceolata, 15- 
18 lineas longa, obtusa, remote obscurissimeque dentata, subtus 
pallidiora, venis primariis lateralibus obliquis utrinque circiter 
7 elevatis. lores absque staminibus circiter semipollicares, 
laxiuseule racemosi, racemis bracteis paucis parvis coloratis 
terminatis, verticillastris 4-6-floris, pedicellis brevibus bracteis 
squameformibus instructis ; calyx fructifer auctus, siccus, rigidi- 
usculus, conspicue venosus, lobo postico orbieulato leviter recurvo, 
breviter decurrente, dentibus 2 anticis approximatis aristatis ; 
eorolla puberula; stamina longissime exserta, filamentis omnibus 
audis; stylus longissime exsertus, alte bifidus. —JVucule leves, 
pallidæ. 
Meiktila. 
Quite different from any of the Asiatic species of Ocimum, but 
closely resembling some of the African, especially O. striatum, and 
almost identical with specimens of this collected by Schweinfurth 
in Central Africa. 
Dr. Prain, the Curator of the Caleutta herbarium, who has 
examined this plant, would refer it to Orthosiphon, because he 
found a “clavate-capitate hardly cleft stigma”; but on re- 
examining flowers we find a deeply bifid style, with slender arms. 
There is indeed little to separate these genera, and the character 
in question may not be constant. 
It was noted in the living plant that the stamens, when they 
had shed their pollen, rolled themselves up and disappeared in 
the corolla-tube. 
Orthosiphon rubicundus, Benth.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 614.— 
Shan hills at 4000 feet. 
Western subtropical Himalaya to the Circars and Nilghiris, 
and in Burma. 
