REPORT ON THE BOTANY ,OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN MOLUCCAS. 1 7!) 



LABIATE. 

 Ocimum sanctum, Linn. 



Ocimum sanctum, Linn. ; Miq., Fl. Iiul. Bat, ii. p. 939 ; Benth, Fl. Austr., v. p. 74 ; Dene, Herb. 

 Timor. Descr, p. 69. 



Ki ; Timor Laut.— A perennial, generally diffused in Tropical Asia, where, however, 

 it is commonly cultivated ; also occurring in North Australia, and in Africa. A genus of 

 about forty species, widely spread in tropical regions, though more numerous in Africa and 

 Brazil than in Asia. 



Ocimum basilicum, Linn. 



Ocimum basilicum, Linn. ; DC, Prodr, xii. p. 32; Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 937. 

 Ocimum gratissimum, Seem, Fl. Vit, p. 191, non Linn. 



Maru.— Widely diffused in Tropical Asia and Africa, as well as in Polynesia ; but, 

 like the last, commonly cultivated ; and thereby, probably, its area has been considerably 

 extended. In a manuscript note in the Kew copy of De Candolle's Prodromus, xii. p. 32, 

 N. E. Brown says that " Ocimum canum is no doubt the same species as Ocimum 

 basilicum, and probably the female of it, as it is not uncommon for the sexes to be 

 separated in the Labiatese." If this be so, the geographical area of Ocimum basilicum 

 includes South America. 



Plectranthus parviflorus, Willd. 



Plectranthus parviflorus, Willd.; Benth, Fl. Austr, v. p. 78 ; Mann in Proc. Amcr. Acad, vii. p. 192 ; 



Seem, Fl. Vit, p. 192. 

 Plectranthus australis, R. Br, et Plectranthus graveolens, R. Tit., fide Benth, loc. ■•it. ; Miq., Fl. Ind 



Bat, ii. p. 947. 



Timor Laut. — As limited by Bentham in the Flora Australiensis, this common 



Australian herb or undershrub also inhabits Timor, New Caledonia, and the Sandwich 



Islands. Genus large, and generally dispersed in the tropics of the Old World, but not 

 represented in America. 



Coleus scutellarioides, Benth. 



Coleus scutellarioides, Benth. in DC. Prodr, xii. p. 73; Fl. Austr, v. p. 79; Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat, ii. 

 p. 949. 



Timor Laut. — Widely spread in the Archipelago, and extending to North Australia. 

 Also collected in Java and Erromanga. Coleus consists of about fifty species, 

 inhabiting the warmer parts of Asia and Africa ; the present species only extending 

 to Australia. 



