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ocimum scutellarioides, skull-cap- 

 like Basil. 



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Clafs and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. labio fuperiore orbiculato : inferiore quadrifido. Cor. 

 refupinatas alterum labium 4-fidum, alterum indivifam. Fila- 

 menta exteriora bafi proceffum emittentia. 



Specific Cbaratler and Synonyms. 



OCIMUM fcutellarioides ; corollis falcatis, pedicelHs ramofis. 



Linn. Mant. 84. Reich. Sp. PL 3. 95. IFtlU. 3 p. 166. 



Martyn Mill. Dicl. n. 18. llort. Kew. ed. ait. 3. 424. 

 OCIMUM fcutellarioides s foliis lanceolato-ovatis fenatis, 



racemis verticillatis. Sp. PL 834. 

 PLECTRANTHUS fcutellarioides. Brown Prod. Nov. Holl. 



p. 506. 

 MAJANA rubra* Rumf. Amh. 5. p. 291. /. 101. 



LinnjEus, in his Mantiffa prima, obferved that this fpecies 

 differed fo much in the form of the flower from the reft, as 

 almoft to render it a diflinft genus; and Profeffor Vahl 

 fince added Ocimum Zatarbendi of Forskohl, an undoubted 

 convener of our plant, to Plectranthus : Willdenow, 

 having adopted this change, ought alfo to have placed this under 

 the fame genus, as has been done by Mr. R. Brown, in his 

 Prodromus Flora Nova Holland! <e. But as this author has 

 remarked that the genus Ocimum requires altogether to un- 

 dergo a re-examination, both to decide which of the fpecies 

 have procefles to the filaments, and of what value this, as yet 

 dubious, character really is in determining the genus ; and 

 Specially as he has not removed this plant in the new edition 



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