608 cxi. LABIATE (J. D. Hooker.) [ Ocimum. 
usually ciliate. Spikes 3-8 in.; whorls rather close; flowers subsessile ; bracts 
ovate, awned, not so large as the nearly glabrous calyx, ciliate. Filaments twice as 
long as the white corolla, hairy at the knee. Nutlets pitchy-black, narrowly ellipsoid, 
punctulate, 
2. O. Basilicum, Linn; herbaceous, erect, glabrous or pubescent, 
leaves ovate toothed or entire, bracts petiolate, fruiting calyx very shortly 
pedicelled, two lower teeth ovate-lanceolate awned longer than the rounded 
upper, lateral smaller than the lower, corolla 4-3 in. long. Lamk. Jil. 
t. 514; Burm. Fl. Ind. 129; Hayne Gew. xi. t. 3; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
iv. 589; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 17; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 33; Wall. 
Cat. 2713 & 2714 (O. canum in part); Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 203; 
Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 147. O. minimum, Burm. Fl. Ind. 129, not of Linn. 
O. hispidum, Lamk. Diet.i. 384. O. pilosum, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. ; 
Roxb. l.c. 16; Fleming in Asiat. Res. xi. 173. O. menthefolium, Benth. 
in DC. l. c. (the Indian plant). O. ciliatum, Hornem. Hort. Hafn. ii. 565. 
O. americanum, Jacg. Hort. Vind. iii. t. 86, not of Linn. O. album, Linn. 
Mant. 85, not of Roxb. O. integerrimum, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 162. O 
caryophyllatum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 45, and Fl. Ind. ii. 16. O. Basilicum, 
var. thyrsiflorum, Wight Ie. t. 868; Benth. Lab. 5, and in Wall. Pl. As. 
Rar. ii. 13; Wall. Cat. 2715. O. thyrsiflorum, Linn. Mant. 84; Jacq. 
Hort. Vind. ii. t. 72; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 15. O. Barrelieri, Roth Nov. Sp. 278. 
Plectranthus Barrelieri, Spreng. Syst. ii. 691.—Hheede Hort. Mal. x. 
t. 87. 
Throughout tropical and hotter INDIA, cultivated from the PUNJAB to Ava, 
Travancore, Malacca and Penang. Indigenous in the PuNJAB on low hills, Aitchison. 
CEYLON, cultivated; ZAwaites.—DiIsTRIB. Hotter W. Asia, Africa, the Malay 
and Pacific Islands (perhaps always cultivated only). . 
This widely cultivated plant differs from O. canum chiefly in the much larger size 
of all its parts, the flowers and seeds being often three times as large. Corolla white, 
pink or purplish. I cannot distinguish the varieties described by Bentham by any 
constant characters. It varies much in robustness and the hairiness of all its parts. 
Var. thyrsiflora is a luxuriant state; var. difforme, Benth. l. c. (O. lacerum, Heyne 
in Herb. Rottl., O. bullatum, Lamk.), has abnormal deeply cut leaves; var. pur- 
purascens, Benth. 1. e. (O medium, Mill.), is a purple-coloured state, imported from 
Persia ; var. glabratum has very large fruiting calyces sometimes 4 in. diam., with 
a rather elongate upper lobe. O. ciliatum, Hornem. (O. ciliare, Heyne in Herb. Rottl., 
O. scabrum, Herb. Wight), bas a hispidulous white corolla; it is cult. in Hort. Cal- 
cutt. under the erroneous name of O. cristatum, Roxb. 
3. O. gratissimum, Linn.; shrubby, glabrescent, leaves ovate acute 
crenate or coarsely toothed, bracts sessile lanceolate awned from a rounded 
base, two lower calyx-teeth minute much shorter than the rounded upper, 
lateral triangular broader than the lower, corolla d in. Jacq. Le. PI. Rar. 
ii. t. 495; Wall. Cat. 2720; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 17 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 34 (excl. syn); Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 147; Dalz. & Gihs. Bomb. FL 
203. O. citronatum, Ham., and O. robustum, Heyne in Herb. Wall.— 
Rheede Hort. Mal. x.t. 86. 
BENGAL, CHITTAGONG, E. NEPAL, and throughout the Deccan PENINSULA; 
and CEYLON, doubtful if indigenous.—Disruis. Java, Trop. Africa and America 
? native). . 
A shrub, 4-8 ft., much branched, woody below. Leaves 2-4 in.; petiole 1-2 in. 
Racemes strict, slender ; whorls rather close-set; pedicels shorter and bracts longer 
than the calyx. Culyw pubescent, fruiting 4 in. long, recurved. Corolla hardly 
exceeding the calyx, pale yellow. Filaments exserted, knee bearded, Nutlets sub- 
globose, rugose with glandular depressions, 
