Order 91. L ablata. 2 5 1 



the fruit, upper lip with a large shield or plate on the back, 

 upper lip of corolla entire or notched, lower broad 3-lobed, 

 ovary oblique. 



13. ANISOMELES. Tall coarse herbs, calyx equally 5-toothed, 

 upper lip of corolla entire erect, lower 3-lobed, spreading. 



14. LEUCAS. Generally woolly or hairy plants with white 

 flowers in axillary whorls, calyx 6 to 10-toothed, the mouth 

 often oblique, upper lip of corolla erect, hooded, lower spreading 

 with very large middle lobe. 



15. LEONOTIS. Flowers in dense axillary whorls with many 

 slender bracts, calyx 8 to 10-toothed, upper lip of corolla 

 long, hooded, lower very small, spreading, concave. 



1. OCIMUM. Basil. 



1. 0. basilicum. Erect, smooth or nearly so, leaves ovate, 

 bracts similar, spikes long, whorls rather close, flowers white, 

 pink, or purplish, stamens long exserted, nuts black. Sdbza, 



This is the sweet basil, very widely cultivated, and with many 

 varieties, making it difficult to fix its characteristics. It is the plant 

 to which Keats' s beautiful but rather revolting poem, <c Isabella, or the 

 Pot of Basil," refers 



"... The basil tuft, that waves 

 Its fragrant blossoms over graves." Lalla Eoolch. 



H. says that it differs chiefly from 0. canum, hoary basil, in the 

 much larger size of all its parts, and in being smooth or nearly so. 

 The latter, with white corolla, is considered to be wild in the plains 

 and lower hills of India, and, like the next, is called JKam tulsi. 



2. 0. gratissimum. A shrub several feet high, nearly smooth, 

 leaves ovate, acute crenate, or coarsely toothed, bracts sessile 

 lanceolate from a round base, corolla scarcely larger than the 

 calyx, pale yellow. Earn tuki } tulsi lij, ram duti. 



Common in gardens ; doubtful if wild (#.). He has a variety with 

 leaves softly hairy. 



3. 0. sanctum. Holy basil. Herbaceous, erect, softly hairy, 

 leaves ovate obtuse toothed, petioled, floral leaves sessile, corolla 

 very small, pale purple, hardly longer than the calyx, nuts 

 reddish brown. Kdla tulsi. 



Very commonly cultivated, particularly about temples and in 

 Brahmins' gardens : doubtfully indigenous (H.). 

 The plant is often purplish all over. 



