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cluding the petiole. Racemes terminal, erect, rigid, hairy, 
with the six-flowered verticels approximate, Bractes petiol- 
ed, ciliate, sub-orbicular, with a sharp point. Flower very 
short-peduncled, pretty large, and white, Ca/ya hairy, upper 
lip orbicular, Corol ; upper lip four-parted, hairy on the out- 
side; under lip oblong, concave@with the margins waved, 
Filaments the large pair, with a large hairy process near the 
The seeds steeped in water swell into a pleasant jelly, 
which is used medicinally by the natives. 
8: O. gratissimum. Willd. iii. 110. 
é Shrubby ; 3 bra ue es four-sided, smooth, Leaves oblong- 
ventricose, serrate, smooth, Bractes short- petioled, cordate- 
lanceolate. 
Hind, Raw-tulasi. 
+The whole plant, I-think diffuses a stronger degree of fra- 
grance, than any other of the genus, It is ont found i in gar- 
dens, and about the temples of the natives, 
Leen tes s woody, perennial. Bark ash-coloured. Branches 
, when young smooth, glossy and 
green; whole height’ of ‘the plant’ from four to eight feet. 
Leaves opposite, long-petioled, drooping, oblong, ventricose, 
remotely serrate, poiited, smooth on both’ sides, often. six 
inches: long, including’ the petiole, which is about a third of 
the-whole. Racemes’ terminal, pretty long. , rigidly erect, 
with'the verticels of six flowers pretty iba lipretcies short- 
oled, reflexed, cordate-lanceolate. © Calyx ; upper lip 
rida wie three nerves, Corol short, scarcely larger than 
the calyx, of a pale yellow underneath, oblong, concave, and 
entire, Filaments longer than the corol, with a large t tuft of 
- dark —- hairs” on fess Paco of the Jarge aa near r the 
