Mesona.] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 611 



3. BXESONA, 'llltnin: 



Annuals. Whorls many-fkl., racemose ; flowers small ; bracts caducous. 

 Calyx campanulate ; fruiting tubular, declinate, 2-lipped, tube deeply pitted 

 between the nerves ; lips rather broad, upper 3-fid, lower entire. Corolla- 

 tube short, upper lip truncate or 4-toothed, lower oblong. Stamens 4, 

 filaments exserted, free, upper toothed at the base. Style 2-fid. Disk 

 tumid, gibbous. Nutlets ellipsoid or ovoid. Species 4, Trop. Asiatic and 

 Malayan. 



BX. Wallichiana, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 46 ; erect, sparsely 

 hairy, leaves ovate-lanceolate serrate. Geniosporum parviflorum, Wall. 

 Cat. 2750; Benth. Lab. 20, and in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 18. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft. ; De Silva, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., branching upwards, slender, rigid. Leaves 1-3 in., narrowed into 

 a petiole ^ | in. Racemes numerous, slender, erect, 3-7 in. ; flowers very numerous, 

 purplish, ^ in. long; bracts deflexed, ovate, purplish. Fruiting calyx fc in. long, ou 

 a slender rigid pedicel longer than itself. Smells like Patchouli. 



4. FLATYSTOXVIA, Beauv. (Platostoma.) 



Small annuals. Whorls many-fld., racemose ; flowers minute ; bracts 

 caducous. Calyx campanulate ; fruiting deflexed 2-lipped, upper lip ovate, 

 toothed on each side ; lower broad intiexed, sinus- very open. Corolla-tube 

 short ; lips subequal, upper broad 2-fid, lower entire concave. Stamens 4, 

 declinate, filaments free included, dilated downwards. Disk tumid, gibbous. 

 Style 2-fid. Nutlets ovoid. Species 3, Indian and African. 



P. flaccidum, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 1173; sparingly pubescent, 

 leaves ovate serrate, fruiting pedicel as long as the calyx-tube. Ocimum 

 flaccidum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 179. 



The CONCAN; on the Kela nuddeh, Ritchie, Dalzell. DISTEIB. Trop. Africa. 



Strict, erect, slender, 4-8 in. high, simple or branched, branches erect. Leaves 

 \-\ in., membranous. Racemes slender, strict, as long as the whole plant ; flowers 

 7 ' 2 in. long. Calyx-lobes ovate. Nutlets black, minutely reticulate. Probably only 

 a btate of P. africanum, Beauv. 



5. ACROCEPHALUS, Benth. 



Annuals. Whorls in terminal or axillary globose or ovoid dense heads 

 with imbricate bracts ; flowers very small, sessile. Calyx ovoid, fruiting 

 tubular, base gibbons ; upper lip flat, entire, lower entire or 4-toothed ; 

 throat naked. Corolla-tube very short, subequally 4-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 filaments free, toothless, included. Disk small, gibbous. Style 2-fid. 

 Nutlets smooth. Species 10, Tropical and Subtropical Asiatic and 

 African. 



1. A. capitatus, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 18, Lab. 23, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 47; sparingly pubescent, leaves petioled few-nerved, 

 heads terminal. Dalz. 8r Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 204 ; Book. Ic. PL t. 456. A. 

 scariosus, Wall. Cat. 1563. A. Blumei, Benth. I. c. Prunella indica, 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. 130. Ocimum capitellatum, Linn. f. Suppl. 276. 0. napi- 

 tatum, Both Nov. Sp. 276. O. acrocephalum, Illume Bijd. 834. O. Chandra, 

 Ham. in Herb. Wall. Lumnitzera capitata, Sprenq. Syst. ii. 687. 



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