LAMIACE^, OR LABIATE. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 275. 



*** A great number of different plants of this order have, 

 from time to time., been introduced into medicine, as aromatics 

 and stimulants, or for imaginary virtues. It would be only en- 

 cumbering the pages of this work to notice anything like all 

 such cases in detail, as the greater part are abandoned in modern 

 practice, and appear to be of little or no consequence, except in 

 the kitchen. It will be sufficient to give a list of those best known, 

 and to describe such only as are most remarkable, or as are still 

 included in the Materia Medica. 



988. Ocymum suave Willd. is used in India as a stomachic, 

 and a cure for infantile catarrh. 



989. Ocymum crispum Thunb. ; an infusion of the leaves is 

 said by Thunberg to be used in Japan as a cure for rheuma- 

 tism. 



990. Ocymum cavum Sims, is esteemed a sudorific in Brazil. 



991. Ocymum Basilicum Linn., according to Ainslie, is used 

 in India to assuage the pains of childbirth ; the pilose variety is 

 employed. 



992. Ocymum viride Willd. is employed in Sierra Leone as a 

 febrifuge. 



993. Ocymum sanctum Linn, is reported by Ainslie to have 

 similar powers in India. 



994. Geniosporum prostratum Benth., has been used at Pon- 

 dicherry as a febrifuge. Burnett. 



LAVANDULA. 



Calyx tubular, nearly equal, 13- or rarely 15-ribbed, shortly 

 5-toothed, with the 4 lower teeth nearly equal, or the 2 lower 

 narrower ; the upper either but little broader than the lateral 

 ones, or expanded into a dilated appendage. Upper lip of 

 corolla 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed ; all the divisions nearly equal ; 

 the throat somewhat dilated. Stamens didynamous, declinate 

 Filaments smooth, distinct, not toothed. Anthers reniform, 

 1-celled. 



995. L. vera DC.fi. fr. snppl. v. 398. Benth. labiat. 148. 

 L. Spica Linn. sp. pi. 800. L. angustifolia Mcench. meth. 389. 

 L. officinalis Vill. fi. dauph, ii. 355. 363. On sterile hills in 



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