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show little tendency afterwards to give out shoots below. In 

 September of the following season it will come beautifully into 

 blossom full two months earlier than plants left to themselves 

 would do. Three or four plants thus treated, and placed near 

 the verandah, have a very ornamental appearance, and in the 

 morning particularly perfume the air delightfully. It is easily 

 propagated by layers in the Cold season. There are several 

 varieties, between some of which there is no marked difference. 

 But the one called Yoltaireanum, not uncommon in Calcutta, is 

 a very beautiful and distinct one. The young shoots are of a 

 bluish-purple, and the unexpanded trusses of bloom of a very 

 dark-purple' colour; the leaves, also, are of a finer, darker 

 green. 





 LAMIACE^]. 



Ocimum. 

 Toolsee. 



Weedy-looking herbaceous plants, with little to commend 

 them to a place in the garden except the agreeable and peculiar 

 fragrance of their leaves ; raised from seed, which they produce 

 in abundance. 



1. 0. sanctum. A small plant with leaves and stem of a dull 

 red-purple, and small purplish flowers ; common all over India, 

 and well known for the sanctity in which it is held by the 

 Hindoos ; very apt to become a troublesome weed in gardens 

 where it has once established itself, shedding its seed abroad, 

 and producing young plants in profusion, which the malees are 

 very reluctant to destroy. 



2. 0. Basilicum, var. glabratum BASIL Gooldl Toolsee. 

 Pleasing for the freshness of its rather large spear- formed, 

 bright-green fragrant leaves. 



Orthosiphon. 



1 . 0. incurvus. A small herbaceous plant, delicately beautiful 

 when in full blossom in the Hot season ; flowers small, pink, 

 borne very numerously in long spikes. Propagated from cuttings 

 or by seeds. 



2. 0. stamineus. A very interesting and pretty little herba- 



