Ocymmn. didynamia gymnospermia. 15 



3. O. album. WUkl. iii. 160. 



Ammal, erect, bushy. Leaves shorf-petioled, ov.ite, cor- 

 date, remotely serruUite. Racemes terminal, sessile. Bractes 

 pefioled, ovate-cordiite, three flowered. Upper lip of" the 

 calyx round reniform. Filaments crested, as long as the sub- 

 campanulate corol. 



4. O. hnUatum. Lamarck. Encyclop. i. 384. 



Found in gardens only, and as the natives have no verna- 

 cular name for it, I conclude it is not a native of the continent 

 of India. The scent is very powerful, more so, 1 think than 

 any other species I have met with. 



5. O. thyrsiflorum. Willd. iii. p. 158. 



Bieimial, erect, ramous, smooth, four-sided, four-grooved. 

 Leaves broad -lanceolate, scarcely serrulate. Panicles termi- 

 nal. Bractes broad-lanceolate. Filaments rather longer 

 than the corol, and crested. 



To Dr. Rottler of Madras I am ol)liged for the seed of 

 this species, which has been the means of introducing it into 

 Bengal, where it was not known before. It is in flower, chief- 

 ly during the rainy and cool seasons, though more or less 

 the whole year. Seed in perfection throughout the dry sea- 

 son Stem erect, branches many, opposite, spreading, four- 

 sided ; sides deeply grooved, the whole plant about three 

 feet hiuh. Leaves petioled, opposite, broad lanceolate, on 

 the interii»r margins of the largest are two or three re- 

 mote serralures, sharp pointed. Panicles^ a tennin-il, ovate, 

 dense one to each bran< h, ramifications thereof decussate. 

 Floiiiers large, pale pink, forming a pre(fy contrast with 

 the ferruginous calyces and bractes. Bractes opposite, lan- 

 ceolate, ciliat(% three-Howered, of a deep ferrugii»ous colour. 

 Calyy ; vpper lip orbicular, and ciliate, and its upper surface 

 of the same colour as the bractes; under lip four-cleft. Corol ; 

 upper lip broad, four-parted ; tlie under one of the same 



