338 cii. LABiAT.E (baker). [Ocimum. 



panicled, 3-6 in. long; rhachis finely pubescent; bracts deciduous; 

 pedicels not very short. Calyx J in. long ; tube campanulate ; upper 

 lobe orbicular, as long as the tube ; lower teeth short. Corolla half as 

 long again as the calyx-lobes. Stamens but little exserted, the two 

 upper with filaments toothed above the base. — Benth. in Hook. Niger 

 Fl. 488 ; Henriques in Bolet Soc. Brot. x. 149. . fehrifugum^ Lindl. 

 in Bot. Beg. t. 753. 0. heptodon, P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 59. t. 94. 



Upper Guinea* Senegambia, cultivated, Heudelot. Sierra Leone, Barter ! 

 Johnston ! Scott-Elliot, 3950 ! Niger Territory : Benin, Beauvois j Cross River, 

 Holland, 36! Cameroons : Batanga, Bates, 60! Bipinde, Zenker! Fernando Po, 

 Vogel, 4 ! Barter ! 



Jtovrer Guinea* Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, Hens, 337 ! Angola ; provinces 

 of Pungo Andongo and Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 5564 I 5572 ! 5575 ! Island of St. 

 Thomas, Don, Moller. 



4. O. trichodon. Baker ex Gierke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 350. 

 A large bush-like perennial, with erect much-lDranched shortly pubes- 

 cent stems. Leaves long-stalked, large, oblong or ovate-oblong, crenate, 

 thin, slightly pubescent on both surfaces. Racemes dense, continuous 

 except at the very base ; whorls many-flowered ; pedicels very short ; 

 bracts orbicular-cuspidate, about as long as the flowers. Calyx finally 

 \ in. long; upper lip orbicular, as long as the campanulate tube; lower 

 teeth very small. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx. Stamens not 

 exserted ; posticous filaments with a hairy tooth above the base. 



Mozamb. Blst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Blantyre, common, 

 Buchanan, 161 ! Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte, 327 ! and without 

 precise locality, Buchanan, 34 ! Cameron, 4 ! 



5. O. suave, Willd. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 35. A much- 

 branched erect herbaceous perennial with pubescent stems. Leaves 

 distinctly petioled, ovate, acute, crenate, 3-4 in. long, densely pubescent, 

 especially beneath. Bacemes dense, copiously panicled, finally 6-9 in. 

 long ; axis densely pubescent, pedicels not very short ; bracts ovate, 

 deciduous. Calyx finally \ in. long ; upper lobe orbicular, as long 

 as the hairy campanulate tube ; lateral lobes minute ; lower small, 

 deltoid, shorter than the upper, finally inflexed. Corolla not much 

 longer than the calyx, whitish or tinged with purple. Stamens shortly 

 exserted, the posticous pair with a tooth at the base. — A. Rich. Tent. 

 Fl. Abyss, ii. 176 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 357 ; Vatke in 

 Linnjea, xxxvii. 314. 0. meitthoefolium, Hochst. ex Benth., I.e. ex parte. 

 0. anA)8urum, Fenzl in Flora, 1844, 312. 0. gratissimum, var. suave, 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 609. 



irile ILand. Ethiopia, Kotschy, 580 ! Eritrea : Haichello Rokob, to the north 

 of Acrur, 5200 ft., Schweinfarth Sf Siva, 1108! Keren, Beccari, 52! Abyssinia; 

 Tigre ; Mount Sholodn, near Adowa, Schimper, 109 ! 1860 ! Wojerat, Quartin-Dillon ! 

 and without precise locality, Schimper, 259 ! Quartin-Dillon Sf Petit, 5 ! British 

 East Africa: Mittu ; between Kero and Ngama, Schweinfarth, 2800 1 Taita ; Ndara 

 Plain, midebrandt, 2407 ! 



liower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; Olukonda, Schinz, 

 571 



