of the Hortus Kewenfis, we have thought it bed to leave it 

 under Ocimum ; efpecially as it is very doubtful whether the 

 ecalcarati or thofe fpecies which have no fpur, of which this 

 is one, may not, in a general reform, be again feparated from 

 the Plectranthus of L/Heritier. 



Mr. Brown has followed Mr. Poiteau in denying that 

 the corolla of thefe plants is refupinate, but not upon the fame 

 around ; he thinks that the unopened flower always affords a 

 certain mark, the under lip being in every cafe covered over 

 by the upper. It is not however unnatural to fuppofe, that if 

 the corolla is reverfed, the mode of imbrication will be reverfed 

 alfo, in order to prevent the wet from entering into the interior; 

 an injury to which it would otherwife be expofed. To us it 

 appears, that if this plant does not afford an example of a 

 refupinate corolla, it wilt be in vain to feek for any in nature. 



Majana rubra of Rumf (not Major an a, as cited by 

 Linnaeus, and copied frOm him whenever this fynonym has 

 been fince quoted) appears, from the defcription, to be our 

 plant, but his figure is a very bad one. 



We were favoured with the fpecimen from which our draw- 

 ing was made, by our friend John Walker, Efq. of Arno's- 

 Grove, Southgate. 



Native of the Eaft-Indies, of the Ifland of Tanna in the 

 South-Seas, and of the tropical regions of New-Holland. An 

 annual plant, cultivated in the ftove or hot-bed. 



