408 A FLORA OF MANILA 
2. O. sANcTUM L. Albahaca (Sp.—Fil.); Solasi, Balanoi (Tag.); Colocogo, 
Camange (Vis.); Biday (Il.). 
An erect, herbaceous or suffrutescent, branched plant 1 m high or less, 
the stems and younger parts pubescent with spreading hairs. Leaves 
oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute, somewhat toothed, 2 to 4.5 em long. Racemes 
5 to 14 em long, sometimes panicled. Pedicels about as long as the calyx, 
spreading, curved. Calyx at time of flowering about 3 mm long, some- 
what larger in fruit, the two lower teeth long-awned, the upper one 
broadly oblong, the lateral ones very broad, mucronate. Corolla pink 
or purplish, but little longer than the calyx. (Fl Filip. pl. 257.) 
Cultivated for its very fragrant leaves, occasionally also spontaneous 
in waste places, fl. Dee—Feb.; throughout the Philippines, but certainly 
not a native of the Archipelago. Western Asia to Malaya, Australia, and 
Polynesia. 
3. MOSCHOSMA Bentham 
Annual or perennial, erect, branched herbs. Leaves petioled, ovate to 
oblong-ovate, thin, toothed or entire. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, 
of rather slender, panicled racemes, the whorls few-flowered. Flowers 
very small. Calyx ovoid, 5-toothed, the upper 3 teeth the largest, margins 
not decurrent. Corolla-tube very short, the upper lip shortly 4-fid. Stamens 
4, declinate, the filaments free. Nutlets compressed, smooth. (From the 
musk-like odor of some of the species.) 
Species about 6, tropics of the Old World, 1 in the Philippines. 
1. M. TENUIFLORUM (Burn.) Heynh. (M. polystachyuwm Benth.). 
An erect, much-branched, nearly glabrous herb 40 to 90 cm high, the 
stems prominently 4-angled. Leaves long-petioled, thin, ovate to oblong- 
ovate, acuminate, toothed, 2 to 6 em long, the base acute. Racemes 3 to 
10 cm long, 5 to 6 mm in diameter, densely many-flowered. Pedicels 
_ shorter than the calyx. Flowers lilac or pink, about 2.5 mm long, the 
calyx in fruit spreading or somewhat refiexed, 3 to 3.5 mm long. 
In open places, occasional, fl. Dec.-June; widely distributed in the Phil- 
ippines about towns, but certainly not indigenous. Tropical Africa and 
Asia through Malaya to Australia. 
4. HYPTIS Jacquin 
Erect, branched, aromatic or not. Leaves opposite, toothed. Inflor- 
escence various, capitate, in dense spikes, or in remote, few-flowered, 
paniculate clusters. Calyx straight or oblique, 5-lobed, lobes acute or awn- 
tipped. Corolla 2-lipped, the lower lip abruptly defiexed, saccate. Stamens 
4, declinate. Nutlets various. (From the Greek “laid back” and “under,” 
in reference to the deflexed lower corolla-lip.) 
A large genus of over 250 species, all American, a few now distributed 
as tropical weeds, 4 in the Philippines. 
1. Strongly aromatic herbs, the flowers in few-flowered, racemosely disposed 
ehisterd 35553. .22579- 2a Se See LVAD.) ees 1. H. suaveolens 
1. Not or but slightly aromatic; heads axillary or terminal, solitary, subglo- 
bose to oblong, densely many-flowered. 
2. Heads axillary, subglobose. 
8. Heads very shortly peduncled, peduncles not longer than the heads. 
; 2. H. brevipes 
3. Heads long-peduncled, the peduncles many times as long as the heads. 
3. H. capitata 
2. Heads terminal, oblong..2000 nS 4. H. spicigera 
