236 LABIAT (Brown), [ Ocimum. 
Coast Recion : Komgha Div. ; on the banks of the Kei River, Drége, 3583 ! 
KaLanari Recon : Transvaal ; Warmbath, Miss Leendertz, 1541! 
Eastern Reaion: Delagoa Bay, Forbes! Bolus, 9737! Kuntze. 
Also in Tropical Africa, India and Brazil. 
O. americanum is very similar to O. Basilicum, Linn., differing in its much 
smaller flowers and fruiting-calyx and in the usually bearded nodes of the stem. 
4. 0. fruticulosum (Burchell, Trav. 8. Afr. ii. 264); plant 
8-12 in. high, branching from the woody base ; branches obtusely 
4-angled, pubescent to thinly and minutely puberulous with reflexed 
curved hairs; leaves shortly petiolate, }-1} in. long, 2-34 lin. 
broad, linear-lanceolate, acute at both ends, entire or obscurely 
toothed, longitudinally folded (in dried specimens), glabrous on 
both sides with the exception of a few hairs along the midrib; 
racemes 2-44 in. long, sometimes arranged in a corymb-like panicle, 
with the whorls 4—} in. apart, about 6-flowered ; lowermost bracts 
leaf-like, the remainder reflexed, petiolate, 1-2 lin. long, 3-3 lin. 
broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the base, glabrous, 
obscurely and minutely ciliate, persistent ; pedicels 1—1} lin. long, 
thinly pubescent ; calyx campanulate, pubescent and glandular out- 
side, ciliate on the teeth, densely hairy within the tube, especially 
when in fruit; tube 1 (in fruit 14) lin. long; upper tooth 3 lin. 
long, orbicular, apiculate ; lateral teeth 4 lin. long, deltoid, with a 
short subulate point ; lower teeth # lin. long, subulate; corolla 
thinly pubescent outside ; tube 1} lin. long; upper lip 14 lin. long, 
shortly 4-lobed ; lobes subequal, obtusely rounded at the apex ; 
lower lip 13 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse ; stamens exserted 
much beyond. the lower lip of the corolla, all free; upper pair 
inserted near the base of the corolla-tube, 1-1 in. long, with a 
reflexed pubescent tooth near the base ; lower pair inserted at the 
base of the lower lip, about } in. long, glabrous ; nutlets 3 lin. long, 
ellipsoid, sometimes slightly angular at the sides, glabrous, black. 
Benth. in DO. Prodr. xii. 34. O. canum, var. integrifolium, Engl. 
Jahrb. x. 267. 
KaLaHarkI Recion: Griqualand West; on mountains near Klip Fontein, 
Burchell, 2160! 2634! Bechuanaland ; Batlapin Territory, Holub! South African 
Gold Fields, Baines! Transvaal ; near the Aapies River, Burke, 346! 
Also in Tropical German South-west Africa. 
5. 0. Dinteri (Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™° sér. iii, 980) ; stem 
with internodes 3—# in. long, puberulous with very minute reflexed 
hairs, becoming glabrous ; leaves up to 3 in. long and 3 lin. broad, 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacuminate, cuneatel 
tapering at the base into a petiole 2 lin. long, entire, green on bot 
sides, glabrous ; lateral veins not evident ; inflorescence up to 3} in. 
long ; whorls 6-flowered, distant, the lowest seated in the axils of 
the uppermost leaves, the others with obovate, oblong or lanceolate 
shortly petiolate bracts as long as or longer than the flowers ; 
