Plectranthus. DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 2] 
slightly channelled. Racemes terminal, one, two, three, or more 
together, sub-secund: achis four-sided, villous. Bractes 
opposite, sessile, from ovate-oblong to, cordate; generally — 
three-nerved, Flowers: pedicelled, fronvone to,thnee belong- 
ing to each bracte, pointing to the outside, small, pale yellow. 
Calyx ; upper lip cordate ; the under one deeply divided into 
four long, acute, ascending divisions. Corol, base of the tube 
gibbous; upper lip erect, four-parted ; the under one entire, 
horizontal, boat-shaped; the margins generally. shit 0 over. the 
round two-lebed: anthers, 
‘The smell of the fresh leaves is somewhat spicy, butw witha 
degree of heaviness, that renders it rather unpleasant than 
otherwise: 9" irar'es esd -Tifol 10 {PERLE 
2. P. seutellarivides, Roxb. 
Perennial ; the whole plant of a deep api colour. 
Leaves edaniiitblsie! obtusely serrate. Panicles terminal, 
racemose, verticels of four ramous pedicels, aber peers 
Ocimum seutellarioides, Willd. iii. ¥66.. iif 
Majorana rubra. Rumph, Amb. v. p. 21. te = 
- Ocimum scutellarioides, Mant, 84, 0 veret 
Introduced into the Botanic: eben: at Oslcytin'e emong 
plants from the Moluccas, in 1798, tis: in’ blossom: — : 
the close of the rains, and more or less the whole year re 
_ Stem erect, somewhat woody. Branches deeply sollte : 
and villous, The'whole plant about three feet high. Leaves 
opposite, petioled, ovate-oblong, obtusely serrate, rugose, 
somewhat downy, and like the young shoots of a deep pur- 
plish green, particularly on the under side; from one to three 
. inches long. Racemes, (panicles) terminal, long and slen= 
der, Bractes sub-sessile, cordate, acuminate, deciduous. 
Verticels of the raceme of four, many-flowered racemuli. 
er an sim a0 — irenoseesic —— tube, 
light blue. colour. Filaments meh ‘nite y pis me 
the base, and wit ; the o 5 a ae 
