30 DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA, Plectranthus, 
high ; grows about old walls, and under the shade of bushes, 
forests, &c, where the soil is dry. Flowering time in the wet 
and cold seasons. | 
_ Stem very trifling, erect, somewhat woody. eensieliaia op- 
posite, four-sided, pretty smooth; sides grooved’; angles 
rounded, Leaves opposite ; petites cordate,:a little rugose, 
crenate-serrate, from one to two inches long, Racemes termi- 
nal, verticelled; verticels six-flowered. Bractes broad-cor- 
date, acute, reflexed, Flowers very minute, oar ip 2a 
pearing without the calyx, | Stamens toothless; = * 
This speciés is void of fragrance.) 
« PLECTRANTHUS. Schreb. gen. N.98 
Coles with ppensdiisadn degeti | Corot. resupiniate, 
gaat TR dex ..b 1. 
_. Annual, erect, tamous, fourstided::: ieee inal 
crenate-serrate, long-petioled. Floral leaves sub-sessile, 
Racemes terminal; sub-secind, with opposite, thtee-nerved, 
from one to three-flowered bractes, WV‘ — oo Un- 
der lip of the corol entire. : ben 
Ocimum molle, Willd, iti. 166.6 
_ A native of Mysore, from thence the seeds mpmmiieg Mr. 
Heyne, to the Botanic garden. at Calcutta, where the plants 
thrive luxuriantly, and blossoin’ seiehee the close of —— 
season. 
Root ramous, alien eed hag fdurcaidelt swith saan 
angles; villous. Branches opposite, ascending, and like the 
stem ; whole height from two to three feet. Leaves opposite, 
those of the stem and branches, long-petioled, floral leaves 
short-petioled ; all are round-cordate, somewhat ragose, sib-_ 
sessile,and tomentose, margins crenate-serrate, with generally 
a smaller serrature between the larger; the usual size from — 
one to four inches each way. Petioles as Jong as the leaves, — 
