338 CII, LABIAT# (BAKER). [Ocimum. 
panicled, 3-6 in. long; rhachis finely pubescent; bracts deciduous ; 
pedicels not very short. Calyx 4 in. long; tube campanulate; upper 
lobe orbicular, as long as the tube; lower teeth short. Corolla half as 
long again as the calyx-lobes. Stamens but little exserted, the two 
upper with filaments toothed above the base.—Benth. in Hook. Niger 
Fl. 488 ; Henriques in Bolet Soc. Brot. x. 149. 0. febrifugum, Lindl. 
in Bot. Reg. t. 753. 0. heptodon, P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 59. t. 94. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, cultivated, Heudelot. Sierra Leone, Barter ! 
Johnston ! Scott-Elliot, 3950! Niger Territory: Benin, Beauvois, Cross River, 
Holland, 36! Cameroons: Batanga, Bates, 60! Bipinde, Zenker ! Fernando Po, 
Vogel, 4! Barter! 
Lower Guinea, Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Hens, 337! Angola ; provinces 
of Pungo Andongo and Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 5564! 5572! 5575! Island of St. 
Thomas, Don, Moller. 
4. O. trichodon, Baker ex Giirke in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 350. 
A large bush-like perennial, with erect much-branched shortly pubes- 
cent stems. Leaves long-stalked, large, oblong or ovate-oblong, crenate, 
thin, slightly pubescent on both surfaces. Racemes dense, continuous 
except at the very base; whorls many-flowered; pedicels very short ; 
bracts orvicular-cuspidate, about as long as the flowers. Calyx finally 
4 in. long; upper lip orbicular, as long as the campanulate tube; lower 
teeth very small. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx. Stamens not 
exserted ; posticous filaments with a hairy tooth above the base. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Blantyre, common, 
Buchanan, 161! Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte, 327! and without 
precise locality, Buchanan, 34! Cameron, 4! 
5. O. suave, Willd.; Benth. in DO. Prod. xii, 35. A much- 
branched erect herbaceous perennial with pubescent stems. Leaves 
distinctly petioled, ovate, acute, crenate, 3-4 in. long, densely pubescent, 
especially beneath. Racemes dense, copiously panicled, finally 6—9 in. 
long; axis densely pubescent, pedicels not very short; bracts ovate, 
deciduous. Calyx finally $4 in. long; upper lobe orbicular, as long 
as the hairy campanulate tube; lateral lobes minute; lower small, 
deltoid, shorter than the upper, finally inflexed. Corolla not much 
longer than the calyx, whitish or tinged with purple. Stamens shortly 
exserted, the posticous pair with a tooth at the base.—A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. ii. 176; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 357; Vatke 1D 
Linnea, xxxvii. 314. 0. menthefolium, Hochst. ex Benth., l.c. ex parte 
O. anosurum, Fenzl in Flora, 1844, 312. 0. gratissimum, var. suave, 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 609. 
Nile Land. Ethiopia, Kotschy, 580! Eritrea: Haichello Rokob, to the north 
of Acrur, 5200 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 1108! Keren, Beccari, 52! Abyssinia ; 
Tigre; Monnt Sholoda, near Adowa, Schimper, 109! 1860! Wojerat, Quartin-Dillon : 
and without precise locality, Schimper, 259! Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 5! British 
East Africa: Mittu ; between Kero and Ngama, Schweinfurth, 2800! Taita ; Ndara 
Plain, Hildebrandt, 2407 ! 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland ; Olukonda, Schinz, 
57! 
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