Ocimum] xcvii. labiate. 849 



In the hilly sandy rocky parts of S. Antonio, sporadic ; fl. and fr. end 

 of June 1859. A late specimen. No. 5504. 



This is apparently the species of Ocimum, cultivated by the colonists 

 in Golungo Alto, and also wild, which is called "mangericao," a 

 Portuguese name which the negroes pronounce n'giUcd. See Ficalho, 

 PL Uteis, p. 241 (1884). 



It is perhaps the Ocymum species mentioned by Welwitsch in Ann. 

 Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. No. 24 (May 1856), p. 250. n. 118, as an under- 

 shrub remarkable for its very agreeable aroma and growing at Boa 

 Vista, Cacuaco, 10 Aug. 1854. 



This species is perhaps not distinct from 0. basilicum L. ; according 

 to Miller it grew naturally in India. 



The following note, which was found in Herb. Welw. with No. 6554 

 (Philoxerus verm'tculatus Sm.) but cannot belong to it, is called 

 Ocimum, and possibly relates to No. 5568 as applied to this species or 

 to No. 5567 :— 



LoANDA. — An erect herb, 2 to 2^ ft. high, patently branched, but 

 little aromatic with the scent of Ocimum ; leaves somewhat limp, 

 beneath densely glandular-punctate, somewhat whitish ; flowers in 

 distant subsecund 3- to 7-flowered whorls ; calyx with the lower teeth 

 long-subulate, contiguous, nearly connate ; corolla bilabiate, white, 

 the lower lip entire, the upper lip trifid, the middle lobe bifid ; style 

 bifid at the apex, with subulate branches ; nutlets 4. obovoid, nearly 

 glabrous. In steep places on a sandy clay soil, above Penedo ; fl. and 

 fr. July 1858. 



2. 0. basHicum L. Sp. PI, edit. 1, p. 597 (1753). 



Cape de Verde Islands. — In the island of St. Jago ; fr. Jan. 1861. 

 A poor specimen, probably of this species. No. 5588. 



3. 0. viride Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. p. 629 (1809). 

 Golungo Alto. — A suffrutescent herb, 4 ft. high or more, strongly 



and very agreeably aromatic ; rootstock woody ; stems numerous, 

 branched above. In open secondary thickets between Trombeta and 

 Cambondo ; fl. and fr. end of May 1855. No. 5564. An undershrub 

 or almost a shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, quasi-evergreen ; aroma peculiar, 

 very pleasant ; stems many from the same rootstock ; leaves dull 

 green. Occasional by negro villages, about Sange, Camilungo, etc. ; 

 fl. and fr. 19 July 1855. No. 5575. 



4. 0. suave Willd., I.e. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A tall herb, very agreeably sweet-scented 

 throughout ; rootstock becoming woody, perennial ; stem obtusely 

 tetragonal, deeply 4-f urrowed, branched, 3 to 4 ft. high, woody at the 

 base; leaves soft, somewhat limp, pale green above, turning pallid 

 beneath, very densely beset with pellucid dots; flowers white. In 

 bushy places at the base of the gigantic rocks near Caghuy, in company 

 with Verbenaceae (cf. Siphonanthus stricta ; Welw. herb. no. 5685) ; fl. 

 and fr. 23 Jan. 1857. No. 5572. Pedras de Guinga ; in very youug 

 fl.-bud Jan. 1857. A poor specimen, perhaps belonging here. No. 5744. 



5. 0. Mans Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. p. 36 (1848). 



Var. macrocaulon Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 161 (1894). 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish violet in colour. At Ferrao da Sola ; fl. 

 and fr. beginning of April 1860. No. 5493. 



This is very nearly related to 0. hnyanum Vatke, but the inflores- 

 cence is somewhat denser in our specimens than in the latter species. 



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