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smaller than the two mucronate lower ones. Corolla-tube not longer 
than the calyx ; limb bilabiate, upper lip 4-lobed, lower scarcely longer, 
nearly flat. Stamens didynamous, declinate; filaments free, upper 
pair often appendiculate above, the base with a tooth or tuft of hairs; 
anthers l-celled. Disk of 1-4 glands. Style shortly bifid at the apex. 
Nucules ovoid or subglobose, smooth or punctate.—Herbs or shrubs. 
Leaves usually petioled and crenate. Racemes of numerous whorls ; 
bracts usually small and deciduous. Flowers usually white, small or 
of medium size. 
Species 60, widely spread through the warmer regions of both hemispheres, some 
extensively cultivated and used for pot-herbs and medicinally. 
*Ocimopon. Filaments of the upper stamens with a tooth 
near the base, 
Annuals. 
Stem and leaves nearly glabrous . J. O. basilicum. 
Stem and leaves covered with fine white down 2..O. canum. 
Perennials. 
tFlowers small (corolla under 3 in. long). 
Stamens not or but little exserted. 
Herbaceous. 
Leaves slightly hairy. 
Racemes lax . 3. O. viride. 
Racemes dense 4. O. trichodon. 
Leaves densely hairy 5. OJ suave. 
Shrubby. 
Leaves subsessile, linear-lanceolate —. . . 6. O. Stirbeyi. 
Leaves shortly petioled, oblong 7. O. tortuosum. 
Stamens much exserted. 
Leaves lanceolate or linear. 
Leaves 4-1 in. long. 
Leaves linear . . . . . . 8. 0. scoparium. 
Leaves lanceolate . . . . . 9. O. Fischeri. 
Leaves 3—4 in. long . . . . . 10. O. glossophyllum. 
Leaves oblong. . . . . 11. O. menthefolium. 
Leaves ovate or ovate- oblong. .. 
Calyx pubescent . . . . . . 12. O. kilimand- ; 
scharicum, 
Calyx densely coated with white tomentum . 13. O. tomentosum, 
++Flowers large. 
Herbaceous perennials, 
Leaves linear. ; oo. 
Whorls of flowers 1 or 2 . . . . - 14. O. linearifolium, 
Whorls of flowers many . . . . . 15. O. poggeanum. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate. 
Leaves 3-1 in. long . . . . . 16. O. modestum. 
Leaves 1-2 in. long. , 
Racemes short s . . . . . 17. O. Stuhlmanni 
Racemes long. . «+ 18. O. fimbriatum. 
Leaves oblong or oblong-lancenlate. 
Racemes long, lax . 
Racemes short, dense . ; . . . 20. 
Undershrubs, with woody branches. 
. 19. O. affine. 
O, Schweinfurthii. 
