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Ocimum.] XCIII. LABIATÆ. 75 
Queensland. ce skin ne Suttor rivers and Peak Downs, F. Mueller ; Bowen, 
Isaàcs and Suttor rivers, Bow 
Widely diffused e yer topical res extending into Africa, but usually with broader 
leaves than in Australia. It is fre requently ey vated in East Indian gardens, about 
temples, &c., for e trong aromatic propert 
F. Mueller observes that his O. a Pret and O. caryophyllinum — 
o unable to distinguish gn each chal ah are prt Eon to O. basilicum ; they 
owever not only in the small flowers and long pedicels, but more essentially in 
the tooth of the upper (not the LN de vig zeninces by the tuft of hairs = 0. 
sanctum. From the common Indian form of O. s m (which by some pt int I 
t aves. The calyx-lo E are more ciliate in the margin in Australia than in 
dia, but I have HEN seen the hairs closing the orifice as in the Masca acile. 
oe gon com TONS but very few species Bc over tropical Asia and Africa. 
endem i iid Australian species, one is common in East India, the other Pe: som to be 
Pring -calyx reflexed or very spreading, companulate. Racemes 
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. 1. M. polystachyum. 
Rac ngalyx e erect or slightly spreading, ‘tubular-campamulato. 
2, M. australe. 
l. M. TUM 48, An erect slender 
chy um, ; DC. Prod. xi 
much Pede annual of i gn Of ; slightly Puit or pes dese 
c stems acutely 4-aneled. Leaves on long petioles, ovate or ovate- 
nceo] . i 
axill es numerous, terminating the main branches as well as short 
ta branchlets, | ent o and loose. Flowers white or very pale blue, 
in when in fruit 1 to 
stach e tube.— Ocimum poly- 
of Wil, , Linn. Mant. 56 67 ; Plectranthus parviflorus, “R. Br. Prod. 506, not 
eia lia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller (a single specimen in herb. 
