Elsholtzia 



LABIATAE-SOLANACEAE Perilla 



Garke) B# (Hsiang Ju; Aromatic Madder) (G.M.1250). Annual, to 5 dm.; fls. 

 blue, IX-X. Asia; locally in An., Che., Hup., Ki., Ku. Grassland. 



Handel-Mazzetti has separated Elsholtzia angustifolia (Loes.) Hand.-Mazz. and E. argyi Levi, 

 from E. patrini (Lepech.) Garke (=#. ciliata (Thunb.) Hylander) in his " Clavis analytica 

 specierum sinensium " (Act. Hort. Gotob. 13 (PI. Sin. 39): 355), saying that they have flowering 

 bracts usually violet-colored and that the bracts are long-pilose all over, while in E. patrini the 

 bracts are usually without color, and with the blade glabrous but with margin ciliate. The 

 specimen collected by Fan and Li in Hunan (No. 614) cited by Handel-Mazzetti, fits well under 

 E. argyi, but Henry No. 2852 from Hupeh, cited as E. patrini, and other specimens seen at the 

 Gray Herbarium, have considerable pubescence on the blades of the flowering bracts, indicating 

 that this character is not definite. Dunn (Ed. N. 6(28): 151) has placed E. argyi as a synonym 

 of E. cristata Willd. (=E. ciliata). The writer inclines towards this view or at most varietal 

 status for E. argyi and E. angustifolia. 



22. Ocimum Linn. HSiM (Lo Lo Shu) 



Erect aromatic herbs or small shrubs with ovate lvs. and whorls of 3 small fls. in 

 loosely panicled clusters: calyx defiexed in fr.; corolla 2-lipped; the lower lip slightly 

 longer than the upper, flat; the tube not exserted; stamens exserted, declining; the 

 lower filaments sometimes connate below: nutlets smooth or somewhat wrinkled. About 

 50 species, in warm countries, chiefly in Asia; 3 in China. (Greek: okimon, an aromatic 

 plant, basil.) 



1. Ocimum basilicum Linn. B® (Lo Lo; Engraved Net) (B.M. 865). Aromatic annual, 

 to 0.7 m.; fls. white or purplish, IX-X; If. blades glabrescent, remotely serrate. 

 Tropical Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands; locally in Ki., Ku. Planted, ornamental. 



23. Perilla Linn. $£R (Tzu Su Shu) 



Coarse aromatic erect annuals with opposite petiolate often purplish lvs. and small fls. 

 in loose terminal bracteate paniculate racemes; calyx 10-nerved, 5-cleft, nearly regular in 

 fl., enlarged and gibbous at the base in fr.; throat not bearded; corolla campanulate, 

 slightly oblique; stamens 4, erect, about equal, scarcely exserted; anther cells parallel 

 at first, later diverging: nutlets subglobose, coarsely reticulate. 2 or 3 species, in Asia; 

 all found in China. (Said to be a native name in India.) 



1. Perilla frutescens (L.) Britt. (P. ocymoides Linn.) ^ (Jen; Pliant) (G.M.1251; Br. 



& B.3:154). Aromatic annual, to 1.5 m.; fls. white, IX-XI; lvs. blunt-dentate. 



Eastern Asia, North America; locally in An., Hun., Hup., Ki., Ku. Cultivated, 



oil. Fig. 326. 

 la. Perilla frutescens (L.) Britt. var. crispa (Benth.) Deane (P. ocymoides Linn. var. 



crispa Benth.; P. ocymoides var. nankinensis (Lour.) Voss; P. nankinensis (Lour.) 



Decne.) ^H (Tzu Su; Reviving Purple) (B.M.864). Fls. white, red or pink; frtg. 



infl. purple; lvs. laciniate-dentate. China; locally in An., Che., Ki., Ku. 



Handel-Mazzetti made a new combination for this name, P. frutescens (L.) Britt. var. crispa 

 (Thunb.) Hand.-Mazz. in A.H.G. 13 (PI. Sin. 39): 352, based on Ocimum crispus Thunb. (1784). 

 Though based on an earlier name than Bentham's var. crispa (1848), the combination is not 

 valid because Bentham's name was previously applied to this plant in the variety category. 



152. SOLANACEAE Nightshade Family mf\ (Ch'ieh K'o) 

 Herbs or shrubs, sometimes climbing, or small trees with usually alternate estipu- 



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