Becium. | LABIAT& (Brown). 231 
between the dorsal and lower teeth ; dorsal tooth about 1 lin. long, 
elliptic-ovate, obtuse, decurrent on the tube; lower teeth }—? lin. 
long, bristle-like ; corolla white or pink (Wood), pubescent on the 
lips outside ; tube 3 lin. long ; upper lip 34-5 lin. long from the 
base of gape, with 4 subquadrate somewhat toothed or crisped lobes, 
2 lateral shorter and broader than the others; lower lip }—} in. 
long, concave, elliptic, obtuse; stamens all free, much exserted ; 
- upper pair 7-9 lin. long, with a retrorse ciliate crest at the bend 
near the base of the filaments; lower pair } in. long; nutlets 
slightly compressed, orbicular, ;!; in. in diam., pale brown. Ocimum 
obovatum, E. Meyer, Comm. 226; Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 205 ; 
Benth. in DO. Prodr. xii. 35; Wood, Natal Pl. iii. t. 257. O. 
serpyllifolium, var. glabrior, Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 226 (excl. 
syn.). O. striatum, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 66; Krauss, Beitr. Fl. 
Cap- und Natal. 130. 
Var. 8, hians (N. E. Br.) ; leaves $-1 in. long, 4-3 in. broad, lanceolate or 
ovate, acute, cuneate or rounded into the not more than 4 lin.-long petiole, varying 
from glabrous to pubescent on both sides ; secondary veins rarely evident; corolla 
white, tinged with 5 longitudinal violet stripes and violet towards the margin on 
the upper lip (Miss Leendertz), blue (Cooper), otherwise as in the type. Ocimum 
hians, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 86; S. Moore in Journ, Bot. 1908, 405. 
Var. y, Galpinii (N. E. Br.); stem and both sides of the leaves pubescent or 
villous with jointed hairs, otherwise as in the type. Ocimum Galpinti, Guerke in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 78. 
Coast Reaion : Bedford Div. ; near Bedford, Mrs. Hutton ! East London Div. ; 
near Panmure, Mrs. Hutton ! 
Ka.anari Reqion: Var. 8: Orange River Colony; on the Drakensberg Range, 
Cooper, 824! Transvaal; many localities, common, Burke, 515! Zeyher, 1353! 
McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3106! Wilms, 1112! 1119! Rand, 710! 1277! Gilfillan 
in Herb. Galpin, 6062! Bolus, 9740! Gough! Schlechter, 3775! 4684! Burtt 
Davy, 2094! 5040! 7.92! Miss Leendertz, 210! 1516 (a pubercent form)! 1730! 
Var. y: Transvaal; Saddleback Range, near Barberton, Galpin, 413 ex Guerke, 
Thorncroft, 4334! Devils Kantoor, Bolus, 9739! Woodbush Mountains, Barber, 
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Eastern Recion: Transkei; between Gekau (Geua) River and Bashee River, 
Drége, 4770! Fort Bowker, Bowker, 559! Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, 
Tyson, 1061! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 471! Natal ; 
various localities, Drege, 4769! Krauss, 390! Sutherland! Sanderson! Gerrard, 
325! Wood, 75! 86! 1340! 1397! Wilms, 3188! between Delagoa Bay and Pretoria, 
a pubescent form, Bolus, 9738! Var. y: Natal; Gerrard, 326! Sanderson, 269! 
Zululand, Eshowe, Mrs. K. Saunders, 7 ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
An exceedingly variable species in the form and indumentum of the leaves. 
The variety hians can usually be readily distinguished by its appearance, but I 
believe this is merely due to the drier and higher region in which it vccurs, some 
of the narrow-leaved specimens of the lower level typical form being almost 
indistinguishable from it, I find no difference in the flowers. 
2. B. angustifolium (N. E. Br.) ; perennial, apparently 1-1} ft. 
high, much branched above; stems rather slender, obtusely 4- 
angled, 4-grooved, puberulous ; leaves $-1} in. long, }-3} lin. 
broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, subacute, tapering below into the — 
petiole, entire or obscurely and minutely toothed, glabrous or 
