Plectranthns. didynamia gymnospermia. 21 



slightly channelled. /?ace?nes terminal, one, two, three, or more 

 togetlier, sub-secund. Rachh four-sided, villous. Bractes 

 opposite, sessile, from ovate-oblong to cordate, generally 

 three-nerved. Flowers pedicelled, from one to three belong- 

 ing to each bracte, pointing to the outside, small, pale yellow. 

 Calyx ; vpper lip cordate; ihemider one deeply divided into 

 four long, acute, ascending divisions. Corol, base of the tube 

 gibbous; upper lip erect, four-parted ; the vnder one entire, 

 horizontal, boat-shaped; the margins generally shut over the 

 round two-lobeJ anthers. 



The smell of the fresh leaves is somewhat spicy, but with a 

 degree of heaviness, that renders it rather unpleasant than 

 otherwise. 



2. P. scnlellarioides, Roxb. 



Perennial ; the whole plant of a deep purplish colour. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, obtusely serrate. Panicles terminal, 

 racemose, verticels of four ramous pedicels. Nectary gibbous. 



Ocimum scutellarioides. Willd. iii. 166. 



Majorana rubra. Rvmph. Amb. v. p. 291. t. 101. 



Ocimum scutellarioides. J\Iant. 84. 



Introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta among* 

 plants from the Moluccas, in 1798. It is in blossom about 

 the close of the rains, and more or less the whole year round. 



Stevi erect, somewhat woody. Branches Aee^\y coloured 

 and villous. The w hole 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, (feciduous. 

 Verticels of the raceme of four, many-flowered racemuli. 

 This alone is an excellent specific character. Corol, tube, 

 throat, and upper lip white ; under lip boat-shaped, and of a 

 light blue colour. Filaments smooth, united by pairs near 

 the base, and without a process, as in the ocymums. 



