Ocimum.'] cii. labiat.e (baker). 3?,9 



BSozamb. Blst. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt, 1000 I 1001 ! German East AfrifH : 

 Usambara ; Masheua, i?o/*^ 8738 ! Portuguese East Africa: Rios de Sena, P^/<?r.y. 

 British Central Africa : Urunpu ; Fwambo, 5250 ft., Nutt ! Nyasaland : near Blantyro, 

 Last ! Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte ! 



Widely spread in Tropical Asia. According to Durand & Schinz (Etudes FI. 

 Congo, i. 224), and Briquet (Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 83) O. rjraiis.simum, Linn., 

 which differs from O. suave by its glabrous stems and leavies, has been collected in 

 Upper, Central, and Lower Congo by Dew^vre and many other botanists. In the Flora 

 of British India, Sir J. D. Hooker treats suave as a variety o^ qrafissimum. Briquet, in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 120, describes two varieties macrophyllum and Ma-srarenarum. 



6. O.Stirheyiy Schvmnf.d' Volh. Liste PL Somalia, \?i. A shrub, 

 with shortly pubescent branches. Leaves subsessile, fascicled, verti- 

 cillate, linear-lanceolate, h in. long, acute, narrowed to the ba.se, 

 glabrescent. Racemes lax, simple, terminal ; whorls 4-5 -flowered ; 

 pedicels scarcely longer than the calyx, clothed with reflexed hairs ; 

 bracts broadly ovate, acute. Flower-calyx y^^ in. long, pube.scent ; 

 upper tooth semi-orbicular, decurrent ; lateral teeth deltoid ; lower 

 setaceous. Corolla J in. long; tube a little longer than the calyx; lips 

 hairy outside, longer than the tube. Stamens shortly exserted ; 

 filaments toothed at the base. 



Xrile Iianda Somaliland: Burka district, OhiTca^ 



7. O. tortuosuxn, Baker. A much-branched erect low shrub, 

 with spreading woody tortuous branches ; young stems very hairy. 

 Leaves small, shortly petioled, oblong, obtuse, crenate, very hairy. 

 Racemes short, moderately dense ; rhachis very hairy ; whorls many- 

 flowered ; pedicels very short ; bracts small, deciduous. Calyx finally 

 J in. long ; upper tooth orbicular, longer than the short campanulate 

 tube ; lower cusps small. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx. 

 Stamens not exserted ; posticous filaments with a glabrous tooth above 

 the base. 



AXozamb. Bist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000-8000 ft., JoAn.v/o;>. 

 187! 



8. O. scoparitun, Gilrke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 350. An under- 

 shrub with glabrous erect branches. Leaves sessile, linear, glabrous, 

 h-l in. long. Racemes lax : bracts very acuminate, deciduous. Calyx 

 broadly campanulate ; upper tooth suborbicular, not cuspidate, with 

 slightly decurrent edges ; lateral teeth truncate, with ciliated mHrfrins ; 

 lower setaceous. Corolla a little longer than the calyx. Stamens 

 much exserted ; upper filaments toothed near the base. 



nKozaxnb. Blst< German East Africa : south of Lake Victoria, at Ukome, 

 ^tuhlmann, 889, and at Kageyi, Stuhlmann, 3489. 



9. O. Fischeriy GUrke in Engl. Jahrh, xix. 195. Stem shrubby, 

 tomentose. Leaves shortly petioled or subsessile, lanceolate, J-1 in. or 

 more long, \-\ in. broad, acute or subobtuse, entire, narrowed to the 

 base, pubescent above, tomentose beneath. Racemes long, simple ; 



