86 LABI AT JS. 



by the Hindus, and are also used as a cooling remedy in gonor- 

 rhoea. . Baths and fumigations prepared with this plant are used 

 in the treatment of rheumatism and paralysis. A decoction of 

 the mucilaginous seeds is used as a demulcent. This plant 

 has heen wrongly identified with the Palangmishk or Faranj- 

 mishk of Persia. The seeds imported into Bombay from Persia 

 under these names bear no resemblance to those of 0. gmtk- 

 simum, 



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. Description. — Stem erect, woody, perennial; bark ash- 

 coloured; branches opposite, erect, 4-sided, when young smooth, 

 glossy and green, whole height of the plant from 4 to 8 feet ; 

 leaves opposite, long-petioled, drooping, oblong, ventricose, 

 remotely serrate, pointed, smooth on both sides, often 6 inches 

 long, including the petiole, which is about a third of the whole ; 

 racemes terminal, pretty long, rigidly erect, with the verticels 

 of six flowers pretty close ; bracts short petioled, reflexed, cor- 

 date lanceolate; calyx^ upper lip marked with three nerves ; 

 corol short, scarcely larger than the calyx, of a pale yellow under- 

 neath, oblong, concave, and entire ; filaments longer than the 

 corol, with a large tuft of dark yellow hairs on the joints of 

 the large pair near tlie base. (Roxh.) 



QCIMUM SANCTUM, Linn. 



Fig.— ^wm. Thes. ZeyL 174, t. SQ,ff. 1, 2; Rianph. Herb 

 AniL v., t, 92,/. 2. Holy Basil {Eng.). 



Mab. — Throughout India. The leaves. 



V€TnMula)\~"l\x\d {Hind., Gu%.), Tulasi (Tr?«?., TtL.MaU 

 Beng., Mar., Can,). 



History, Uses, &C. — The Tulasi plant is venerated 



in India by the Hindus like the Tervein was amongst the 



Romans. Its worship is expounded in the Tulasikaragamy^ \iii\^ 

 book composed of two parts : the first beino^ the Tulasikavacam 



