19, 3 Merrill: Burman’s Flora Indica 879 
The form Burman described was characterized one year 
earlier by Linnaeus as Mentha auricularia. Majana foetida 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 41, t. 16, f. 2, is correctly placed as a 
synonym by both Linnaeus and Burman. Burman’s species was 
reduced to Mentha foetida by Linnaeus Mant. 2 (1771). 
ACROCEPHALUS Bentham 
ACROCEPHALUS INDICUS (Burm. f.) O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. (1891) 511. 
Prunella indica Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 130. 
Ocimum capitatum Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 276. 
Acrocephalus capitatus Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 2 (1831) 18. 
Burman’s species was based on a Javan specimen, “Brunella . 
javanica D. Kleinhof.” It is commonly known as Acrocephalus 
capitatus Benth., but Burman’s specific name should be retained. 
GENIOSPORUM Wallich 
GENIOSPORUM TENUIFLORUM (Linn.) comb. nov. 
Ocimum tenuiflorum Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 597. 
Geniosporum prostratum Benth. in Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1300, et in Wall. 
Pl. As. Rar. 2 (1831) 18. 
Thymus indicus Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 129. “Habitat Coromandeli.” 
This species is currently known as Geniosporum prostratum 
Benth., but it would seem that the Linnean specific name should 
be adopted for it. 
OCIMUM Linnaeus 
OCIMUM SANCTUM Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 85. 
Ocymum inodorum Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 180. “Habitat in India.” 
Burman’s species is apparently a synonym of Ocimum sanctum 
Linn., where it is definitely placed by Bentham. The figure in 
Burman Thesaurus Zeylanicus (1737) 175, t. 80, f. 2, is good for 
the Linnean species, and from this citation the younger Burman 
took his specific name; the Javan Sulassi puti-utan, judging 
from this native name, might be Ocimum basilicum Linn. 
LABIATAE OF DOUBTFUL STATUS 
*SCUTELLARIA ? JAPONICA Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 130. “Habitat 
in Japonia, Java.” 
Two species are involved, but the form actually described 
by Burman was the Javan plant. It has been reduced by Ben- 
tham in part to Plectranthus coetsa D. Don, which is not known 
from either Java or Japan; and in part to Melissa parviflora 
Benth., likewise definitely known from neither Japan nor Java, 
although Bentham actually examined the species in Burman’s 
