OCIMTM.] 



LAB I AT. K. 



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Ovary 4-lobed, nutlets with a largo tibli«iue 

 orlatrr.il areola on tho inner side ; stamens 

 4, perfect, i roct, exserted from the notch or 

 fissure of the upper lip. 



Corolla deeply slit behind and apparently 

 1-lipped, the two small upper lobos along 

 with the small lateral pair springing from 

 the contracted base of the very large 

 lower lobe ...... 



Corolla distinctly 2-lipped ; upper lip short, 

 2-lobcd, notched ; lateral pair of lobes 

 yery small, springing from the sides of 

 the very largo lower lobe .... 



23. Teucrium. 



24. Ajuga. 



1. OCIMUM, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 607. 



Strongly scented herbs shrubs or undershrubs. Flowers small, in 

 6-10-flowered whorls, spicate or racemose, pedicels with recurved 

 tips ; bracts minute, caducous. Calyx 2-lipped, ovoid or campanu- 

 late, deflexed, enlarged and strongly veined in fruit ; upper lip broad, 

 flat, decurrent ; lower with 4 mucronate teeth. Corolla 2-lipped ; 

 tube short, not annulate within ; upper lip subequally 4-fid.; lower 

 hardly longer than the upper, declinate, entire. Stamens didynamous, 

 declinate, exserted ; filaments free or the lower pair connate below, 

 naked or the upper toothed or hairy below, anther-cells confluent. 

 Disk entire or 3-4-lobed. Ovary 4-partite, style-lobes # subulate or 

 flattened. Nutlets dry, smooth or subrugose^ mucilaginous when 

 moistened, basal scar small.— Species about 6<>, in tropical and warm 

 temperate regions of both hemispheres. 



Pedicels as long as or longer than the calyx, 

 the 2 lower cal.-teeth exceeding the upper lip 1. 0. sanctum. 



Pedicels shorter than the calyx : — 



Bracts sessile, longer than calyx, the 2 lower 

 cal.-teeth minute ..... 



Bracts stalked, shorter than calyx, the 2 

 luwer cal.-teeth longer than the upper lip :— 



Corolla £•£ in. long .... 



Corolla §4 in. long .... 



2. 0. gratissimum. 



3. 0. canum. 



4. 0. Basilicum. 



1 O. sanctum. Linn. Mant i, 85 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, U ; F. B. I. iv 

 '609; Watt K.D.; Duthie F.f G. Crops, N. W. Prov. Hi, 50; Kanjila 



