Ortliosiphon.'] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 613 



minute capitate or clavate entire or notched stigma. Nutlets ovoid or 

 orbicular, smooth or nearly so. Species 16, tropics of the Old World. 



* Calyx-throat villous. Stamens included. 



1. O. diffusus, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 50; woody, diffusely 

 branched, viscidly tomentose, leaves ovate or elliptic obtuse crenate, corolla- 

 tube shortly exserted, fruiting calyx g- in. Ocimum ? diffusum, Benth. in 



Wall. Cat. 2718, and in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 14. O. hirsutum, Wall. 



Cat. 2717 in part. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Pulney and Nilghiri Mts., in dry rocky places, Klein, &c. 

 ? CEYLON ; Walker. 



Branches many and straggling from the woody stock, stout, cylindric, 6-8 in. 

 high. Leaves in. long, tomentose on both surfaces, base rounded ; petiole - in. 

 Racemes 3-4 in., stout or slender ; whorls rather distant, 2-4-fld., floral leaves 

 minute. Calt/x pubescent, throat with long hairs, fruiting ribbed, 2 lower lobes 

 rigid, subulate. Corolla about J in. long. Nutlets oblong, obscurely reticulate, 

 brown, nearly smooth. I suspect that the Ceylon habitat is an error. 



VAE. hispida ; tomentose or villous, branches longer more slender, leaves more 

 narrowed at the base. O. hispidus, Benth. 1. c. Nilghiri and Cuddapah Hills. 



** Calyx-throat naked. Stamens included, 

 f Leaves petioled. 



2. O. pallidus, Boyle mss. ; B j nth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 70, Lab. 

 708, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 50 ; woody, diffusely branched, glabrous or 

 finely pubescent, leaves petioled ovate obtuse coarsely toothed or crenate, 

 two lowest calyx-teeth aw'ned, corolla- tube about equalling the calyx. 

 Dalz. $ Gibs- Bomb. Fl. 205 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 539. O. verticillatus, 

 Ileyne in Herb. Rottl. 0. inodorus, Koen.\ Roxb. Ic. ined. in Herb. JTew, 

 not of Fl. Ind. iii. 19. 



NOETH-WESTEEN INDIA; from Kashmir and the Punjab to Behar, and south- 

 wards; to Travancore. DISTEIB. Beluchistan, Arabia. 



Branches 6-12 in., many, ascending from a stout woody stock. Leaves -2 in., 

 obtuse or acute, scentless, base cuneate entire and narrowed into a petiole 3 the 

 length of the blade. Racemes long or short, stout or slender ; floral leaves minute ; 

 flowers ^ in. loug. Corolla white. Fruiting calyx as long as the pedicel, \-\ in. 

 long, deflexed ; lower teeth subulate or aristate. Nutlets subglobose, compressed, 

 pale, nearly smooth. With difficulty distinguished from states-of Ocimum adscendens, 

 the calyx being nearly identical. Roxburgh's figure of 0. inodorus is this plant, but 

 his description refers to some other with cordate rugose leaves and cordate bracts. 



3. O. tomentosus, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 14, Lab. 27, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 51 ; tomentose, pubescent or glabrate, sometimes viscid, 

 leaves petioled ovate, base rounded cuneate or cordate, racemes elongate, 

 bracts ovate, 4 lower calyx-teeth awned, corolla from half as long to thrice as 

 long as the calyx, tube , subincurved, nutlets subglobose compressed pale 

 brown nearly smooth. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats, and from the Concan southwards. CEYLON. 



A most variable plant. I am quite unable to find any characters whereby to define 

 strictly the following forms. The O. rubicundus is distinguished by the long sessile 

 or subsessile leaves. 



VAB. tomentosa proper ; 12-18 in., rarely more, pubescent or tomentose, leaves 

 i-1 in., petiole half the length of the blade or less, corolla about in. Ions:, twice as 

 long as the calyx or less. O. tomentosus, Benth,. 1. c. ? O. triste, Both Nov. 8p. 

 270. Plectranthus tristis, Spreng. St/st. ii. 690. Nilghiri Hills. 



