234 LABIAT (Brown). [ Ocimum. 
1. 0. suave (Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Bot. Berol. 629); a stout 
branching herb; stems square, with rather sharp angles, shortly 
and densely pilose to subglabrous ; leaves spreading ; petiole $2} in. 
long, pubescent or pilose ; blade 14-34 in. long, 3-2} in. broad, flat, 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the base, obtusely and 
somewhat coarsely serrate, pubescent on both sides or occasionally 
glabrous ; inflorescence of 3 or more terminal spike-like racemes 
3—6 in. long, bearing numerous closely placed 6-flowered whorls of 
small flowers ; bracts 14-2 lin. long, ovate, very acuminate, reflexed, 
persistent ; pedicels }—1 lin. long, pubescent ; flowering-calyx de- 
flexed, thinly pubescent to densely white pilose-pubescent outside, 
glabrous within ; tube 1 lin. long, campanulate ; upper tooth about 
1 lin. long and broad, very broadly ovate with recurved margins ; 
lateral teeth minute, filiform-subulate, with the mouth of the tube 
above them produced into a lobe or auricle under the upper tooth ; 
lower teeth united into a deltoid body 4 lin. long, minutely 2-toothed 
at the apex ; fruiting-calyx enlarged, about 2} lin. long, with the 
lobe formed by the lower teeth pressed against the auricles under 
the upper tooth and closing the mouth of the tube; corolla scarcely 
exserted from the calyx, white ; tube 1 lin. long, glabrous ; upper 
lip 3 lin. long, subequally 4-lobed ; lobes oblong, obtuse, pubescent 
on the back; lower lip # lin. long, elliptic, obtuse, very concave, 
pubescent on the back ; stamens exserted, unequal ; filaments free ; 
upper pair arising near the base of the corolla-tube, 2 lin. long, with 
a stout obtuse hairy reflexed process at the knee ; lower pair inserted 
just below the base of the lower lip, 12 lin. long; nutlets sub- 
globose, lin. in diam., slightly rugulose, dark brown. Benth. Lab. 7, 
and in DC. Prodr. xii. 35; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 338 ; 
Wood, Natal Pl. iv. t. 325. 
Katanart Reoion: Transvaal ; hills near Shilovane, Junod, 1144! near 
Rustenburg, Nation, 146! near Aapies River, Schlechter, 4169 ! 
Eastern Reoion; Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1242! in the Botanic Garden, but 
indigenous, Wood, 1812! Nonoti River, Gerrard, 1228! Zululand; near Eshowe, 
1500 ft., Wood, 3975! 
Also in Tropical Africa and Tropical Asia. 
2. 0. simile (N. E. Br.) ; stem erect, branching above, more than 
1 ft. high, subterete, scarcely 4-angled except at the inflorescence, 
glabrous and brown below, puberulous and purple at the inflorescence ; 
leaves recurving, {-2 in. long including the }—3 in.-long petiole, 
4-3 in. broad, lanceolate, acute, tapering into the petiole at the 
base, entire or obscurely toothed, flat or longitudinally folded, 
glabrous on both sides with the exception of a few minute hairs on 
the midrib and veins beneath ; racemes erect, laxly panicled, 2-5 in. 
long, with the whorls }~% in. apart, 6-flowered ; lower bracts leaf- 
like, upper about } in. long, petiolate, lanceolate, acute, ciliate with 
long jointed hairs, deflexed, dark purple, persistent ; pedicels 1—} in. 
long, puberulous ; calyx deflexed, campanulate, puberulous outside, 
densely bearded with hairs at the middle of the tube inside ; tube 
