252 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



* O. adscendens, stem prostrate, branches ascending, leaves ovate, 

 obtuse, floral leaves lanceolate, deciduous, corolla pale rose, filaments 

 twice as long as corolla; nuts red brown. The Deccan in sandy 

 places; very variable in habit (HJ. 



2. ORTHOSIPHON. 



0. pdllidus. Small, low, much-branched, smooth, leaves pale 

 green, ovate obtuse or triangular, coarsely toothed, the base 

 cuneate and entire, corolla white, calyx whitish, about the same 

 length, stamens included, nuts pale, nearly smooth. 



Near Poona. Very common in the Deccan (D.). Very like an 

 Ocimum, and, H. says, " with difficulty distinguished from 0. ad- 

 scendens, the calyx being nearly identical." The latter, which is very 

 variable, and, H. says, from 4 to 16 inches high, is found in the 

 Deccan. 



* 0. tomentosus (0. glabratus, D.), leaves broad ovate, cordate, 

 toothed, long-petioled, flowers light purple, corolla tube very long. 

 Deccan (D.). A most variable plant, particularly as to hairiness 

 (H.). 



The four genera which follow are, like the two just given, in sub- 

 tribe Euocimese, and have the lower lip of the corolla flat or nearly 

 so. G-eniosporum, whorls many-flowered in long lax racemes, corolla 

 as in Ocimum. * G. prostratum, stems slender, many, from a woody 

 stock, leaves oblong, very variable, corolla minute, hairy, bracts 

 ovate acute, reflexed. Not in D. S, Konkan ((?.) 



Platystoma, small annuals, whorls many-flowered, corolla lips about 

 equal. * P. flaccidum, erect, leaves ovate serrate, racemes slender, 

 stiff, as long as the whole plant, calyx lobes ovate, nuts black. The 

 Konkan, and on the Kala naddi (H.). 



Acrocephaf.us, flowers whorled in dense heads, corolla lobes 4, about 

 equal, stamens iucluded. * A. capitatus, procumbent, leaves ovate 

 lanceolate, flowers pale purple, heads with imbricated bracts. Alibag 

 districts and S. M. country (>.). 



Moschosma, flowers 6 to 10 together in panicles, corolla tube very 

 short, stamens included. * M. polystachyum, slender, much-branched, 

 erect, leaves ovate acute, crenate serrate, flowers purplish or flesh- 

 coloured, nuts black, smooth. The Konkans (#) This was made 

 an Ocimum by R., following Linnseus. 



3. PLECTRANTHUP. 



P. incanus (P. cordifolius, D.). A tall handsome plant, 

 softly hairy all over, leaves broad ovate or roundish, deeply 

 cordate, crenate, flowers small lilac, or light blue in racemes 

 or panicles, corolla tube curved, nuts large, roundish. Ldl 

 dglidra. 



Dapoli. Sawant Wari (>.) " Grows in great abundance through- 

 out Khandalla village, also on the rnins of Rosa near Ellora j and 

 generally everywhere near the habitations of man " (?) ((?.). 



