ciliated with glandular hairs : under lip bifid., segments nar- 

 row acute like the lateral segments of the upper lip, but a 

 fourth part longer. Corolla ringent ; tube refracted, gibbose 

 above. Upper lip short, three lobed, rounded, bearded : 

 lower lip canoe-shaped, acute, hairy along the keel, contain- 

 ing the stamens which are declined ; filaments not toothed, 

 united half-way, inserted at the entrance of the tube : anthers 

 4-lobed, one-celled. Pollen globose. During aestivation, 

 that is in the bud, in its unexpanded state, the upper lip is 

 superincumbent on the lower. 



Ocimum scutellarioides of which we gave some account 

 at No. 1446, is certainly a congener of our present plant, 

 which is undoubtedly the Plectranthus Forskohlcei of the 

 Hortus Kewensis ; but we are not quite so sure that it is the 

 Ocimum hadiense of Forskohl, as he distinguishes that 

 species by its having flexible leaves, which in our plant are 

 fleshy and brittle, corresponding better with Forskohl's 

 description of the leaves of his Ocimum Zatarhendi, the 

 flowers of which agree perfectly with those of our Ocimum 

 scutellarioides, but not with our present plant. 



Flowers in October and November. Propagated by cut- 

 tings. Native of Arabia-Felix and Abyssinia. Introduced 

 in 1806 by Viscount Valentia, now Earl of Mountnorris, 

 whose ardour in the pursuit of natural knowledge is well 

 known. Communicated from the stove of James Vere, Esq. 

 of Kensington Gore, by Mr. William Blake, his gardener. 



Obs. The leaves are extremely bitter to the taste, the calyxei 

 aromatic and pungent. 



When compared with the usual form of labiate flowers, as in the 

 dead-nettle for instance, the lower lip in Plectranthus corres- 

 ponds with the upper in Lamium, and covers the stamens ; in like 

 manner the upper lip of the former corresponds in form with the 

 lower, on which account these flowers are said to be resupinate ; 

 but this position of parts is natural from the first formation of the 

 flower, and not as in many of the Orchis tribe, occasioned by the 

 twisting of the germen or peduncle, by which means the position 

 of the flower becomes changed from what it was during aestivation ; 

 to which change of position some writers seem exclusively to apply 

 the term resupination. 



