380 LAMIACEAE. 



smooth or rough. [Greek, bent backward.] About 300 species, mostly of 

 tropical America. Type species: Hyptis verticillata Jacq. 



Flowers in secund spiked cymes: calyx 3-4 mm. long. 1. H. pcclinata. 



Flowers in axillary clusters ; calyx 8-10 mm. long. 2. H. suavcolens. 



1. Hyptis pectinata (L.) Poit. Ann. Mus. Paris 7: 474. 1806. 



Nepeta pectinata L. Syst. Ed. 10, 1097. 1759. 



Perennial, densely puberulent; stems erect, 3-20 dm. high. Leaves ovate, 

 2-8 cm. long, serrate, acute at the apex, mostly obtuse or subcordate at the 

 base, the petioles 4.5 em. long or less; flowers in secund spiked cymules, the 

 inflorescence elongated; calyx 3-4 mm. long, puberulent, its subulate lobes 

 nearly as long as the tube; corolla whitish, little longer than the calyx, the 

 upper lip 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed ; nutlets granular, about 1 mm. long. 



Waste places, Andros, Cat Island, and Inagua : Florida ; West Indies and con- 

 tinental tropical America. PECTINATE HYPTIS. 



2. Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit. Ann. Mus. Paris 7: 472. 1806. 



Ballota suaveolens L. Syst. ed. 10, 1100. 1759. 



Annual? Stem stout, often much branched, loosely pilose, 3-8 dm. high. 

 Leaves ovate or ovate-orbicular, slender-petioled, 4 cm. long or less, acute or 

 obtuse at the apex, obtuse or subcordate at the base, low-serrate, sparingly 

 pubescent on both sides ; flowers 2-5 together, nearly sessile, in short-peduncled, 

 axillary clusters, or the clusters crowded in a terminal panicle and subtended 

 by small leaves ; calyx campanulate, strongly ribbed, at length 8-10 mm. long, its 

 subulate teeth shorter than the tube; corolla 5-6 mm. long, bluish. 



Waste and cultivated soils. New Providence, Eleuthera and Great Exuma : West 

 Indies; continental tropical America; East Indies. PILOSE HYPTIS. WILD BASIL. 



8. OCIMUM L. Sp. PI. 597. 1753. 



Herbs or low shrubs, with erect or ascending branched stems, usually 

 dentate petioled leaves and clustered flowers. Calyx deflexed in fruit, its 

 tube campanulate or ovoid, 5-lobed, the lobes unequal, the lower ones somewhat 

 united. Corolla white or nearly white, its tube usually shorter than the calyx, 

 its lobes nearly equal. Stamens 4, didynamous, the lower pair appressed to the 

 lower lip of the corolla; filaments naked or appendaged. Ovary 4-carpellary ; 

 style ba?al. Nutlets smooth or rugose. [Greek, odorous.] About 40 species 

 widely distributed in warm and tropical regions. Type species: Ocimum 

 ~basilicum L. 



1. Ocimum micranthum Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 630. 1809. 



Annual, pubescent; stem erect, branched, 2-5 dm. high. Leaves ovate or 

 oblong-ovate, 1-5 cm. long, serrate, acute at the apex, narrowed or subtruncate 

 at the base, the petioles 5-20 mm. long; panicles 2-10 cm. long; flowers 

 several in the clusters; pedicels 4-7 mm. long; calyx puberulent, 6-7 _ mm. 

 long in fruit, the upper lip concave, the lower of 4 narrow subulate-tipped 

 lobes; corolla about 4 mm. long, its tube dilated above, its upper lip with 2 

 rounded lobes, the lower lip with 2 ovate lateral lobes and a notched middle 

 one; nutlets about 1 mm. long. 



Waste and cultivated grounds, New Providence and Eleuthera : Florida : West 

 Indies ; Jamaica ; Mexico to continental tropical America. WILD BASIL. POTMARGIN. 



M</rri<l>ium vulfjare L., listed by Dolley, has not been found by our collectors on 

 the islands. 



