442 XCTIII. LABIATiE. 



Doubtfully incligeiious. Konkan : Law\ Deccan : Poona, CooJce]; Nasik, Wood- 

 row \, Wadthe/carl S. M. Country: Belgaum, Bitchie, 548! Gujarat: Balsar, 

 Kanitkarl — Disteib. Throughout India, often cultivated ; Ceylon, Java. 



Ocimum basilicum, Linn. Sp, PL (1753) p. 597. A widely culti- 

 vated plant known as the Siveet Basil, not indigenous in the Bombay 

 Presidency but said to be so in the Paujtib on low hills. The typical 

 form is generally quite smooth with green stems and white flowers, the 

 2 middle teeth of the lower lip of the calyx awned, longer than the 

 I'oimded upper lip, the corolla sometimes ^ in. long, shortly pedicellate, 

 the nutlets pitted. PI. B. I. v. 4, p. 608;~Grah. Cat. p. 147; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 203 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 360 ; 

 Prain, Beug. PI. p. 842 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 440. 



Vak. tliyrsijiora, Benth. Lab. Gen. et Sp. p. 5. Of many described 

 varieties, most of which are, according to Sir J. D. Hooker (Fl. B. I. 1. c), 

 not distinguishable by any constant characters, the above seems to be 

 the most important in the Bombay Presidency. It has purple stems 

 and pink flowers in thyrsoid racemes. — Vern. Sahjd ; Kdmalastun. 



The plant has a strong aromatic flavor, and is employed as a seasoning for ctilinai-y 

 jjurposes. The seeds ai-e used medicinally by the natives in many parts of India, 

 See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2. ORTHOSIPHOlXr, Benth. 



Undershrubs or shrubs. Plowers racemose in 6- or fewer-flowered 

 whorls ; bracts small. Calyx ovoid, campanulate or tubular, deflexed in 

 fruit ; upper tooth broad, membranous, the margins decurreut on the 

 tube ; lateral and lower teeth distinct or shortly connate, usually sub- 

 ulate. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube often slender, straight or incurved ; 

 upper lip e3-4-fid ; ]o« er entire, concave. Stamens 4, declinate, didy- 

 namous ; filaments free, not appendaged at the base : anther-cells con- 

 fluent. Disk usually gibbous. OA^ary 4-partite ; style with a small 

 capitate or clavate entire or notched stigma. Pruit of 4 dry ovoid or 

 globose nutlets, smooth or nearly so; basal scar small. — Disteib. Warmer 

 regions of the Old World ; species about GO. 



Corolla-tube nearly equalling the calyx 1 . 0. paliidiis. 



Corolla-tube longer tlian the calyx 2. O. tomentosus 



var. glabrata. 



1. Orthosiphon pallidus, Royle, MSS. ex Benth. in Hool\ Bot. 

 Misc. V. 3 (1833) p. 370. A. low undershrub G-12 in. high ; branches 

 numerous from a woody rootstock, quadrangular, more or less finely 

 pubescent. Leaves inodorous, g-l^ by g-g in., ovate, usually obtuse, 

 creuate or serrate, glabrous or nearly so, gland-dotted, base shortly 

 cuneate ; petioles ^- f^ in. long. Flowers in rather short racemes, the 

 whorls G-tiowered, distant ; bracts Jg in. long, hairy ; pedicels about 

 equalling the flowering calyx, pubescent. Calyx in flower g in. long, 

 twice as long in fruit, the lower part hairy; upper lip with 3 obtuse 

 lobes, the middle lobe widest ; lower lip strongly parallel-nerved, 

 membranous, the 2 central teetli with a long up-curved awn from 

 a narrow lanceolate base, longer than the u])per lij), the lateral teeth 

 broadly lanceolate with a short straight awn. Corolla j in. long, 



