BASIL. 153 



37J lbs. The vernacular names of 0. hasilicum (as given in 

 Pharmaeographia Indica) are, Xcizbo, Sabza (Hind.) ; Sabja (^lar., 

 Ctuz.) ; Xcisbo, Sabja, Baboi-tulsi (Beng.) ; Tirunitm-pachchai 

 (Tam.) : Yibiidi-pattri (Tel.) ; Kam-Kasturi (Can.). 



Ocimum pilosum above referred to is an erect shrubby 

 plant, native of India ; known in Bengal as Babooi-tulsi. The 

 stem and branches are 4-sided and furrowed ; leaves ovate-oblong, 

 serrate ; bractes petioled, sub-orbicular, hairy ; under lip of the 

 calyx orbicular and hairy, with corolla twice its length. This is 

 the Basilicum Indicum of Eumphius, Amb., v., p. 263, t. 92, f. 1. 

 See also Eoxburgh Hort. Beng., p. 45. 



Ocimum caryopyl latum, known in the Hindustanee and 

 Bengalee as Gulal-tulasi, is a shrubby plant with erect stem and 

 opposite branches nearly round, polished, leaves broad lanceolar, 

 serrulate, smooth. It is in blossom most part of the year, but 

 chiefly during the latter part of the rainy and in the cold season. 



Ocimum thyrsiflorum, Linn., Mantissa plantarum p. 84. 

 Murray, Commentarii Goetingensis, viii., p. 47, t. 5. Jacqmin, 

 Hortus botanicus, iii., t. 72. This plant, which has been considered 

 by some botanists to be the true Sweet Basil, is described by 

 Eoxburgh* as one of the most fragrant species of ocimum in India, 

 it was introduced by him into Bengal from Madras and success- 

 fully propagated from seed. It flowers chiefly during the rainy 

 or cool season and the seed ripens in the dry season. It is a 

 biennial, erect shrub of about 3 feet in height, with many opposite, 

 spreading, 4-sided branches, the sides being deeply grooved. 

 Leaves petioled, opposite, broad lanceolate; on the interior margins of 

 the largest are 2 or 3 remote serratures, sharp-pointed ; panicles, 

 a terminal, ovate, dense one to each branch, ramifications thereof 

 decussate. Flowers large, pale pink, forming a pretty contrast 

 with the ferruginous calyces and bractes. Bractes opposite, lanceo- 

 late, ciliate, 3-flowered, of a deep ferruginous colour. Calyx, 

 upper lip orbicular and ciliate, and its upper surface of the same 

 colour as the bractes ; under-lip 4- cleft. Corolla, under lip broad, 

 4-parted, the under one of the same length, linear-oblong, with a 

 rounded crenate apex. Filaments, the superior short pair amply 

 crested. 



* Flor. Ind., iii., p. 158. 



