Ocymum. DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA, 15 
3. O. album, Willd. iii. 160. 
Annual, erect, bushy. Leaves short-petioled, ovate, cor- 
date, remotely serrulate, Racemes terminal, sessile. Bractes 
petioled, ovate-cordate, three-flowered. Upper lip of the 
calyx round-reniform. Filaments crested, as long as the sub- 
campanulate corol. 
4, O. bullatum. Lamarck, Encyclop., i. 384, 
Found in gardens only, and as the natives have no verna- 
cular name for it, I conclude it is not a native of the continent 
of India. The scent is very powerful, more so, I think than 
any asbesyrprcien.d pave met with, 
73.saipreais 
5. 0. ‘thyreifidrie Willa. iii. i, pe 158, | diel 
Biennial, erect, ramous, smooth, four-sided, ween wrt 
Leaves broad-lanceolate, scarcely serrulate. Panicles termi- 
' nal, Bractes broad-lanceolate. Filaments rather longer 
than the corol, and crested. 
To Dr. Rottler of Madras I am obliged for the seed of 
this species, which has been the means of introducing it into 
gal, where it was not known before, It is in flower, chief- 
iy: during the rainy and cool seasons, though more or Jess 
the whole year. Seed in perfection throughout the dry sea- 
son. Stem erect, branches many, opposite, spreading, four- 
sided; sides deeply grooved, the whole plant about three 
feet high. Leaves petioled, opposite, broad-lanceolate, on 
the interior margins of the largest are two or three re- 
mote serratures, sharp-pointed, Panic/es, a terminal, ovate, 
dense one to each branch, ramifications thereof decussate. 
Flowers large, pale pink, forming a pretty contrast with 
the ferruginous calyces and bractes. _ Bractes opposite, lan- 
ceolate, ciliate, three-flowered, of a deep ferruginous colour. 
alya ; upper lip orbicular, and ciliate, and its upper surface 
of thes me onlents an shi hirontoss wander lip four-cleft. Corals ; 
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