300 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Ocimum Basilicum, Linne. 



The " Basil." Warmer parts of Asia and Africa. Will grow in 

 Norway to lat. 63 26' [Schuebeler]. An annual herb, valuable 

 for condiments and perfumery. Several varieties exist, differing 

 considerably in their scent. A crystalline substance is also obtained 

 from this and similar species. 0. canum (Sims) is closely allied. 

 Valuable, like many other aromatic Labiatee, for bees. Seeds will 

 keep for fully eight years. 



Ocimum grratissimum, Linne. 



Recorded from India, the South- Sea Islands and Brazil as 

 indigenous. Somewhat shrubby. This is also a scent-plant, like 

 the following, and is one of the best of the genus. O. viride 

 (Willdenow), from tropical Africa, seems a variety. There an 

 infusion of it is administered as a febrifuge. 



Ocimum sanctum, Linne. 



Arabia, India, tropical Australia. A perennial herb. The odor 

 of the variety, occurring in North -Australia, reminds of anise ; the 

 smell of the variety, growing in East- Australia, resembles that of 

 cloves. O. tenuiflorum, L., seems to be another variety. Probably 

 other species, cis- as well as trans-atlantic, can be used like Basil. 



Ocimum] suave, Willdenow. 



East- Africa. A shrubby species. 



Ocotea bullata, E. Meyer. (Oreodaphne bullata. Nees) . 



South- Africa, in humid districts, where it is next to Nageia elata 

 one of the largest timber-trees. Planks 20 feet long and 15 inches 

 wide are occasionally obtained. The wood has such great strength, 

 that it is preferentially used for the heavy waggons of South- 

 Africa ; also employed for very durable furniture, especially chairs 

 [W. Tuck]. 



CEnanthe Phellandrium, Lamarck. 



Europe, Western and Northern Asia. A perennial swamp-plant, 

 the fruitlets of which are of considerable medicinal value. 



CEnanthe stolonifera, De Candolle. 



Japan, China, India, where this swamp-herb is used for spinage. 

 For particulars refer to Paillieux et Bois in Bull. Soc. d'Acclimat. 

 1888, p. 1106-1108. 



Olea Europaea, 



The Olive-tree. South-Western Asia ; naturalised in the countries 

 on the Mediterranean Sea. Generally not of great height, but of 

 many centuries' duration and of unabating fecundity. In Corfu 

 however it grows sometimes to a height of 60 feet, and forms 



