18 DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Ocymum. 
ovate-oblong, grossly and acutely serrate, smooth, Bractes 
lanceolate, ciliate. Upper lip of the calyx broad-cordate. 
Siamina and style longer than the corol. Filaments amply 
crested, 
A native of Persia, from thence sent to the Botanic garden 
at Calcutta, under the Persian names, Deban shah, and De- 
ban Maewassi, It is very nearly allied to our Indian Goolal 
tulasi, and to thyrsiflorum. In Bengal it flowers during the 
rains and the cool season, 
10, O. polystachyon, Willd. i, 365. 
Annual. Stem and branches four-sided, with sharp an- 
gles. Leaves sub-cordate, serrate. Spikes terminal, Bractes 
petiole: round-cordate, Stamens the lens ot degen’ 
crested. : ; zqgi Fee oe ae pi 
Teling. Nain 7. e, water o ialiek e . 
Is a native of ditches, and wet places It. flowers during 
the rainy season. 
Stem annual, erect, from ~ate! to four feet high, four-sided, 
with very sharp angles, which are armed with small, sharp, 
scabrous excrescences, Branches numerous, opposite, like. 
the stem, Leaves opposite, spreading, petioled, cordate, 
pointed, serrate; about two inches long, and one and a 
half broad. Petioles four-sided, Racemes terminal, and. 
axillary, erect; verticels. approximate. Bractes_petioled, 
cordate, pointed, three-flowered, Corol twice the length 
of the calyx, all the divisions of the border are.of the same 
length; under lip concave, Filaments wanting the charac- 
teristic processes of hairs, Cattle eat it, . shaplpiipteeee 
or no fragrance... a 7 fice i; 
Il. 0. tuberosum. Roab. : 4, 
Herbaceous, four-sided, smooth, Saeed salle “able 
grossly serrate, smooth. Bractes oval: Filaments crestless. 
Is a native of vallies among the Orissa mountains} the 
whole plant is about a foot highs shots 
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