Ocimum. | CII, LABIAT# (BAKER). 339 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1000! 1001! German East Africa : 
Usambara ; Masheua, Holst, 8738 ! Portuguese East Africa: Rios de Sena, Peters. 
British Central Africa: Urungnu ; Fwambo, 5250 ft., Nutt! Nyasaland: near Blantyre, 
Last! Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte ! 
Widely spread in Tropical Asia, According to Durand & Schinz (Etudes FI. 
Congo, i. 224), and Briquet (Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 83) O. gratissimum, Linn., 
which differs from O. suave by its glabrous stems and leaves, has been collected in 
Upper, Central, and Lower Congo by Dewévre and many other botanists. In the Flora 
of British India, Sir J. D. Hooker treats suave as a variety of gratissimum, Briquet, in 
Bull. Herb. Boiss, ii, 120, describes two varieties macrophyllum and Mascarenarum. 
6. O. Stirbeyi, Schweinf. d- Volk. Liste Pl. Somalis,13. A shrub, 
with shortly pubescent branches. Leaves subsessile, fascicled, verti- 
cillate, linear-lanceolate, 3 in. long, acute, narrowed to the base, 
glabrescent. Racemes lax, simple, terminal; whorls 4~5-flowered ; 
pedicels scarcely longer than the calyx, clothed with reflexed hairs ; 
bracts broadly ovate, acute. Flower-calyx 51, in. long, pubescent ; 
upper tooth semi-orbicular, decurrent; lateral teeth deltoid ; lower 
setaceous. Corolla } in. long; tube a little longer than the calyx; lips 
hairy outside, longer than the tube. Stamens shortly exserted ; 
filaments toothed at the base. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Burka district, Ghika, 
7. O. tortuosum, Baker. A much-branched erect low shrub, 
with spreading woody tortuous branches; young stems very hairy. 
Leaves small, shortly petioled, oblong, obtuse, crenate, very hairy. 
Racemes short, moderately dense ; rhachis very hairy; whorls many- 
flowered ; pedicels very short; bracts small, deciduous. Calyx finally 
$ in. long; upper tooth orbicular, longer than the short campanulate 
tube; lower cusps small. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx. 
Stamens not exserted ; posticous filaments with a glabrous tooth above 
the base. 
Mozamb. Dist. 
187! 
8. O. scoparium, (iirke in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 350. An under- 
shrub with glabrous erect branches. Leaves sessile, linear, glabrous, 
3-1 in. long. Racemes lax; bracts very acuminate, deciduous. Calyx 
broadly campanulate ; upper tooth suborbicular, not cuspidate, with 
slightly decurrent edges ; lateral teeth truncate, with ciliated margins ; 
lower setaceous. Corolla a little longer than the calyx. Stamens 
much exserted ; upper filaments toothed near the base. 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: south of Lake Victoria, at Ukome, 
Stuhlmann, 889, and at Kageyi, Stuhlmann, 3489. 
German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000-8000 ft., Johnston, 
9. O. Fischeri, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 195. Stem shrubby, 
tomentose. Leaves shortly petioled or subsessile, lanceolate, 3-1 in. or 
more long, }-} in. broad, acute or subobtuse, entire, narrowed to the 
base, pubescent above, tomentose beneath. Racemes long, simple ; 
