608 cxn. LABIATE (J. D. Hooker.) [Ocimum. 



usually ciliate. Spikes 3-8 in. ; whorls rather close ; flowers subsessile ; bracts 

 ovate, awued, not so large as the nearly glabrous calyx, ciliate. Filaments twice as 

 long as the white corolla, hairy at the knee. Nutlets pitchy-black, narrowly ellipsoid, 

 punctulate. 



2. O. Basilicum, Linn ; herbaceous, erect, glabrous or pubescent, 

 leaves ovate toothed or entire, bracts petiolate, fruiting calyx very shortly 

 pedicelled, two lower teeth ovate-lanceolate awned longer than the rounded 

 tipper, lateral smaller than the lower, .corolla - in. long. Lamk. III. 

 t. 514; Burm. Fl. Ind. 129; Hayne Gew. xi. t. 3; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 539; Boxb. FL Ind. iii. 17; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 33; Wall. 

 Cat. 2713 & 2714 (O. canum in part}; Datz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 203; 

 Grali. Cat. Bomb. PI. 147. 0. minimum, Burm. Fl. Ind. 129, not of Linn. 

 O. hispidum, Lamk. Diet. i. 384. O. pilosum, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. ; 

 Boxb. I. c. 16 ; Fleming in Asiat. Res. xi. 173. O. menthaefolium, Benth. 

 in DC. I. c. (the Indian plant). 0. ciliatum, Hornem. Sort. Hafn. ii. 565. 

 O. americanum, Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. t. 86, not of Linn. 0. album, Linn. 

 Mant. 85, not of Boxb. 0. integerrimum, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 162. 0. 

 caryophyllatum, Boxb. Hort. Bet/g. 45, and Fl. Ind. iii. 16. O. Basilicum, 

 var. thyrsiflorum, Wight Ic. t. 868 ; Benth. Lai. 5, and in Wall. PL As. 

 Mar. ii. 13; Wall. Cat. 2715. 0. thyrsiflorum, Linn. Mant. 84; Jacq. 

 Hort. Vind. iii. t. 72 ; Boxb. FL Ind. 15. O. Barrelieri, Both Nov. Sp. 278. 

 Plectranthus Barrelieri, Sprena. Syst. ii. 691. Bheede Hort. Mai. x. 

 t.87. 



Throughout tropical and hotter INDIA, cultivated from the PUNJAB to Ava, 

 Travaucore, Malacca and Penang. Indigenous in the PUNJAB on low hills, Aitchison. 

 CEYLON, cultivated; Thtvaites. DISTBIB. Hotter W. Asia, Africa, the Malay 

 and Pacific Islands (perhaps always cultivated only). 



This widely cultivated plant differs from O. canum chiefly in the much larger size 

 of all its parts, the flowers and seeds being often three times as large. Corolla white, 

 pink or purplish. I cannot distinguish the varieties described by Bentham by any 

 constant characters. It varies much in robustness and the hairiness of all its parts. 

 Var. thyrsiflora is a luxuriant state; var. dijforme, Benth. 1. c. (O. lacerum, Heyne 

 in 'Herb. Rottl., 0. bullatum, Lamk.), has abnormal deeply cut leaves; var. pur- 

 pitrascens, Benth. 1. c. (O medium, Mill.), is a purple-coloured state, imported from 

 Persia ; var. glabratum has very large fruiting calyces sometimes in. diam., with 

 a rather elongate upper lobe. O. ciliatum, Hornem. (O. ciliare, Heyiie in Herb. Rottl., 

 O.scabrum, Herb. Wight), has a hispidulous white corolla; it is cult, in Hort. Cal- 

 cutt. under the erroneous name of O. cristatum, Roxb. 



3. O. gratissimum., Linn. ; shrubby, glabrescent, leaves ovate acute 

 crenate or coarsely toothed, bracts sessile lanceolate awned from a rounded 

 base, two lower calyx-teeth minute much shorter than the rounded upper, 

 lateral triangular broader than the lower, corolla in. Jacq. Ic. PL Bar. 

 iii. t. 495; Wall. Cat. 2720; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 17; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 

 xii. 34 (excl. syn.) ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 147 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. FL 

 203. 0. citronatum, Ham., and O. robustum, Heyne in Herb. Wall. 

 Bheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 86. 



BENGAL, CHITTAGONG, E. NEPAL, and throughout the DECCAN PENINSULA ; 

 and CEYLON, donbtful if indigenous. DISTBIB. Java, Trop. Africa and America 

 (? native). 



A shrub, 4-8 ft., much branched, woody below. Leaves 2-4 in. ; petiole 1-2 in. 

 Racemes strict, slender ; whorls rather close-set ; pedicels shorter and bracts longer 

 than the calyx. Calyx pubescent, fruiting | in. long, recurved. Corolla hardly 

 exceeding the calyx, pale yellow. Filaments exerted, knee bearded. Nutlets sub- 

 globose, rugose with glandular depressions. 



