OCIMUM.] 



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Ovary 4-lobed, nutlets with a large oblique 

 or lateral areola on the inner side ; stamens 

 4-, perfect, erect, exserted from the notch or 

 fissure of the upper lip. 



Corolla deeply slit behind and apparently 

 1-lipped, the two small upper lobes along 

 with the small lateral pair springing from 

 the contracted base of the very large 

 lower lobe 



Corolla distinctly 2-lipped ; upper lip short, 

 2-lobed, notched ; lateral pair of lobes 

 very small, springing from the sides of 

 the very large lower lobe .... 



23. TEUCRIUM. 



24. AJUGA, 



1. OCIMUM, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 607. 



Strongly scented herbs shrubs or undershrubs. Flowers small, in 

 6-10-flowered whorls, spicate or racemose, pedicels with recurved 

 tips ; bracts minute, caducous. Calyx 2-lipped, ovoid or campanu- 

 late, deflexed, enlarged and strongly veined in fruit ; upper lip broad, 

 flat, decurrent ; lower with 4 mucronate teeth. Corolla 2-lipped ; 

 tube short, not annulate within ; upper lip subequally 4-fid.; lower 

 hardly longer than the upper, declinate, entire. Stamens didynamous, 

 declinate, exserted ; filaments free or the lower pair connate below, 

 naked or the upper toothed or hairy below, anther-cells confluent. 

 Disk entire or 3-4-lobed. Ovary 4-partite, style-lobes subulate or 

 flattened. Nutlets dry, smooth or subrugose, mucilaginous when 

 moistened, basal scar small. Species about 60, in tropical and warm 

 temperate regions of both hemispheres. 



Pedicels as long as or longer than the calyx, 

 the 2 lower cal, -teeth exceeding the upper lip 1. 0. sanctum. 



Pedicels shorter than the calyx : 



Bracts sessile, longer than calyx, the 2 lower 

 cal.-teeth minute 2. 0. gratisrimum. 



Bracts stalked, shorter than calyx, the 2 

 lower cal.-teeth longer than the upper lip : 



Corolla ^- in. long . . . .8.0. canum. 

 Corolla f-| in. long . . . . 4. 0. Basilicum. 



1. O. sanctum, Linn. Mant. i, 85 ; Roxb. FL Ind. m, 14 ; F. B. I. iv 



609} Watt ti.D.; DutMe F.$ G. Crops, N.W. Prov. Hi, 50 ; Kanjila 



