Ocimum. | CII, LABIAT# (BAKER). 337 
above the base.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 488; Schweinf. Beitr. 
F]. Aethiop. 125; Hayne, Gewachs. xi. t. 3; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
iv. 608. O. graveolens, A. Br. in Flora, 1841, i. 265. 0. petitianum, 
A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 176. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia: north bank of the River Gambia, Ozanne! Sierra 
Leone, Don, Miss Turner! Cape Verd Islands : St. Nicolao, Bolle ! Lagos, Rowland ! 
Fernando Po, Vogel, 80! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Dongola, cultivated, Ehihenberg ! Eritrea : Mount Ghedem, 
near Massowa, 480-1000 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 96! Kordofan : Schitangul, Pfund, 
175! Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 197! Ethiopia, Kotschy, 198! Darfur, Purdy, 
91! Abyssinia : Chelicut, Petit / 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Amboni, Holst, 2802! 
Portuguese East Africa : Rios de Sena, Peters ; Inhambane, Scott ! Unangu to Lake 
Shirwa, Johnson, 76! 
Widely spread in Tropical Asia, and often cultivated. 
2. O. canum, Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2452; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 
32. An erect much-branched annual, with densely pubescent stems 
1—2 ft. long. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate or lanceolate, more or less 
pubescent, 1-2 in. long, entire or obscurely crenate. _Racemes mode- 
rately dense, 3-6 in. long; axis very pubescent; pedicels very short ; 
bracts small, ovate, deciduous. Calyx finally } in. long; upper lobe 
orbicular, much longer than the hairy very short campanulate tubo; 
lateral lobes minute ; two lower deltoid, mucronate, protruding beyond 
the upper. Corolla white, 4 in. long. Stamens much exserted, the 
posticous pair appendiculate at the base.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fi. 
487; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 83; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 125; 
Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 134; Briquet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
Xxxvi. p. 83; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 607. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Lelidvre. Cape Verd Islands : St. lago Island, 
Hooker, 121! Lagos: Eferin Oshu, Moloney! Abeokuta, Irving, 1381! Niger 
Territory : Nupe, Baikie ! Borgu, Barter, 868! Cameroons: Batanga, Bates, 203 ! 
Fernando Po, Vogel, 32! Barter ! 
Wile Land. Ethiopia, Kotschy, 568! Galabat: Matamma, Schweinfurth, 
243! Somaliland: Boobi, James Sf Thrupp! British East Africa: Jur; Jur 
Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 3019! Mora ; Neangara, Murie ! Unyoro, Speke § Grant ! 
Ukamba, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6427! Taita; Ndara Mountain, Hildebrandt, 
3394! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Lukungu, Hens, 393. Angola, Welwitsch, 
5566 ! 5567! 5569! 5570! 5574! 5583! 5617! 
South Central, Congo Free State: Mombuttu ; Munza, Scheweinfurth, 3391! 
between Lusambo and the Lomami River, Laurent. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara ; Amboni, Holst, 2841! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Monkey Bay, 1600 ft., Whyte ! Tanganyika 
Plateau, at Fort Hill, Whyte! 
Widely spread in Tropical Asia, often cultivated. 
3. O. viride, Willd. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 34. A perennial 
3-6 ft. high, with much-branched glabrous stems. Leaves distinetly 
petioled, oblong, acute, membranous, 3-4 in. long, glabrous on oth 
sides, or obscurely pubescent beneath. Racemes lax, copious y 
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