7. CoLEUs.] 106. LABIATE. 



2. C, amboinicus, Lo^tr. Syn. C. aromaticiis, Roxb. ; Pathar-chtir, 



Vern. 



Shruhbv Ijelow. villous, Avitli short petioled orbicular cordate crenate very thick^ 

 crenulate^ sliglitlj- hairy leaves about 1-2'' long and broad. Flowers very small 

 blue or pale purple in very dense distant whorls ; in bud with 4 rows of caducous 

 bracts. Common in gardens. Fl. May-June. 



3. C. scutellarioides, Benth. Syn. Ocimum scutellarioides, L. 



A tall slender plant 2-3 ft. high with petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 crenate membranous leaves 2-3" and flowers "o" with abruptly decurved tube. 

 Racemes elongate slender. The leaves are usually purple beneath. 



Common in gardens. 



4. C. Blumei, Benth. Syn. Plectranthus scutellarioides, Blume. 



Briquet states that this is the parent of most of the beautifully variegated-leaved 

 Co/fHS, sometimes crossed with its congeners C. bicolor, Benth., and C. laci)iiafns,. 

 Benth. All are natives of and cultivated in Java. The whorls are secund in 

 elongate racemes, the lower lip of the hirsute calyx is 3-fid with the middle 

 segment longer and 2-lobed. C. laciniatm has the leaves inciso-serrate. 



Very common in Indian verandahs, often with the last. 



8. HYPTIS, Jacq. 



Herbs or shrubs Avith (in ovir species) small flowers disposed in dense 

 cymose whorls and these in panicled spikes or racemes, cymes some- 

 times capitate when young. Calyx campannlate, ovate or tubular, 

 equally 5-toothed, often accrescent in fruit. Corolla with cylindric or 

 somewdiat Avidened or ventricose tube, 2-lobed upper lip, abruptly 

 deflexed saccate loAver lip contracted at the base and the side lobes 

 united either with the loAver or upper lip or free. Stamens 4 decli- 

 nate, anther-cells confluent. Style sub-entire or 2-fid. 

 A very large American genus with some 300 species. 



1. H. suaveolens, Poii. Gang-a Tulsi, S., Or; Purudo, 3Ial Pah. 



A tall, coarse, branched, very sweet-smelling- herb, varying m 

 stature but attaining 6 or 7 ft. in congenial situations, Avith obtusely 

 4-angled stems often -5" diam. Leaves oA^ate sinuate and crenate- 

 denticulate, loAver 4-5" by 3-5", slightly cordate, hairy, upper smaller 

 not cordate. FloAvers small blue, Avhen young often capitate 2-4 

 together on an axillary peduncle (in globose heads, J.D.H.), or in 

 bracteate axillary racemif orm cymes or, in luxuriant specimens, cymes 

 collected into thyrsiform almost leafless panicles one foot or more 

 long. Filaments hairy. Calyx compressed sub-2-lipped someAA'hat 

 deflexed, tube '25" long in fruit lO-nerA'ed meeting in a marginal 

 nerve and Avith an inflexed ring of hairs in the mouth, teeth subulate- 

 aristate strong. Nutlets compressed ovoid oblong, emarginate at tip, 

 pointed beloA\% ribbed, -12" long. 



Completely naturalised in most parts of the province in open waste ground. 

 Singbhum ! " Ranchi! Very common in the coalfields of Manbhum! Santal P., 

 A-ery common! Pui-i, local! Angul, Chatfarjee\ Sambalpur ! Athmallik ! Fl. 

 Oct. -Nov. Fr. Nov. -Jan. 



Very glandular. Calyx hairy and glandular. Corolla "2", upper lip shortly^ 

 2-lobe'd, lower (including side-lobes) 3-lobed. 



The plant, pounded, is applied in parasitical cutaneous diseases, Camp. 



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