Ocimuiu] xcvii. labiat.I':. 840 



In the hilly sandy rocky parts of 8. Antonio, sporadic ; (1. and fr. end 

 of June 18511. A late specimen. Xo. 5504- 



This is apparently the .species of <),■;„< nm, cultivated by the colonists 

 in Golungo Alto, and also wild, which is called " mangericao," a 

 Portuguese name which the negroes pronouace n'gUicd. See Ficalho 

 PI. Uteis, p. 241 (1884). 



It is perhaps the Oi-ymum species mentioned by Welwitsch in Ann. 

 Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. Xo. 24 (May 185G), p. 25U. n 118, as an uiider- 

 vshrub remarkable for its very agreeable aroma and growing at liua 

 A'ista, Cacuaco, 10 Aug. 18r>4. 



This species is perhaps not distinct from 0. husiUrnvi L. ; according 

 to ^liller it grew naturally in India. 



The following note, which was found in Herb. Welw. with No. ()0;">4 

 (P/illoxerns rrnniciihitits Sm.) but cannot belong to it, is called 

 Ociinum, and possibly relates to No. 5568 as ai^plied to this species or 

 to No. 5567 : — 



LoANDA. — An erect herb, 2 to 2h ft. high, patently branched, but 

 little aromatic with the scent of Oc/iauia : leaves somewhat limp, 

 beneath densely glandular-punctate, somewhat wliitish ; Howers in 

 distant sub.secund 3- to 7-tlowered whorls ; calyx with the lower teeth 

 long-.subulate, contiguous, nearly connate ; corolla bilabiate, white, 

 the lower lip entire, the upper lip trifid, the middle lobe bifid ; style 

 bifid at the apex, with subulate branches ; nutlets 4, obovoid, nearly 

 glabrous. In steep places on a sandy clay soil, above Penedo ; fl. and 

 fr. July 1858. 



2. 0. basilicum L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 597 (1753). 



Capk ])i; Vr.KDK Islands. — In the island of St. Jago ; fr. Jan. 1861. 

 A poor specimen, probably of this species. No. 5588. 



3. 0. viride Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. p. 629 (1809). 

 Gui.UNtJo Ai.Td. — A suffrutescent herb, 4 ft. high or more, strongly 



and very agreeably aromatic ; rootstock woody ; stems numerous, 

 branched al)ove. In open secondary thickets between Trombeta and 

 Cambondo ; fl. and fr. end of May 1855. No. 5564. An undershrub 

 or almost a shrub, i5 to 5 ft. high, quasi-evergreen ; aroma peculiar, 

 very pleasant ; stems many from the same rootstock ; leaves dull 

 green. Occasional by negro villages, about Sange, Camilungo, etc. ; 

 fl. and fr. VJ July 1855. Xo. 5575- 



4. 0. suave Willd., I.e. 



PrxGO AxnoNco. — A tall herb, very agreeably sweet-scented 

 throughout ; rootstock becoming woody, perennial ; stem obtusely 

 tetragonal, deeply 4-f urrowed, branched, 3 to 4 ft. high, woody at the 

 base ; leaves soft, somewhat limp, pale green above, turning pallid 

 beneath, very densely beset with pellucid dots ; flowers white. In 

 bushy places at the base of the gigantic rocks near Caghuy, in company 

 with Verbenaceai (cf. Si])Jion(nithux strictu ; Welw. herb. no. 5685) : H. 

 and fr. 23 Jan. 1857. Xo. 5672. Pedras de Guinga ; in very young 

 fl.-bud Jan. 1857. A poor specimen, perhaps belonging here. Xo. 5744. 



5. 0. Mans Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. p. 36 (1848), 



A^ar. macrocaulon Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 161 (1894). 



Hrii.LA. — Flowers whitish violet in colour. At Ferriio da Sola ; fl. 

 and fr. beginning of April 18(;(l. XV 5493. 



This is very nearly related to 0. knijanum Vatke, but the inflores- 

 cence is somewhat denser in our specimens than in the latter species. 



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