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5. O SANCTUM, Linn. Mant. p 85. Stems hairy; leaves petioled; 

 oval-obtuse, dentate, pubescent; floral leaves like bracts, sessile, 

 shorter than the pedicels ; racemes slender, simple, or slightly 

 branched ; calyx shorter than the pedicel, drooping, glabrous ; 

 throat within naked, upper tooth obovate-concave, shortly decur- 

 rent ; corolla scarcely longer than the calyx. Common almost 

 everywhere. Sacred to Hindoos. Syn. Basilicum agreste, Rumph 

 Amb. v, 265; O zeylanicum, Penenne, tturm. Thes. Zeyl. p 174 ; 

 O frutescens, Burm. Ind. p 129; O inodorum, Burm. Ind. p 130; 

 O monachorum, Linn. Mant. 58; Plectranthus monachorum, Spr. 

 syst. ii, 690 ; O tenuiflorum, Lam ; Lumnitzera tenuiflora, Spr. 

 syst. ii, 687 ; O villosum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 44 (?) The whole 

 plant has often a purple hue. The flowers are pale-purple, and 

 not inodorous, stated by Bentham. This plant goes through the 

 ceremony of marriage about the end of October. 



2. AJUGA. 



1. A DISTICH A ANISOMELES OVATA, Roxb. Fl. 3, p 2 ; 

 Marrubium Indie. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 71 ; Rheede Mai. 10, t. 88 ; 

 Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. 2 t. 7. A tall annual, with 4-seeded 

 stems, and branches opposite ; leaves cordate-serrate; flowers spiked 

 alternate, with narrow-lanceolate or subulate hairy bracts; upper lip 

 of the corolla narrow, greenish, overhanging ; under lip larger, recurv- 

 ed longer, bialate, with purple segments. The plant has a strong 

 savour of black currants. Near to and on the Ghauts, common. 



3. ACROCEPHALUS, Benth. 



1. CAPITATUS, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii, p 18. Stem 

 procumbent; leaves ovate or lanceolate, sub-glabrous; heads of 

 flowers terminal ; lower lip of calyx 4 toothed ; stem slender, 

 very much branched at the base. On the Meera hills, near Penn 

 and at Mahar, sparingly; Southern Maratha Country, Law. Syn. 

 Prunella indica, Burm. Ind. 130 ; Ocimum capitellatum, Linn. 

 Mant. 276 ; O capitatum, Roth. nov. sp. 276; Hook. Ic. PI t. 456. 



4. MOSCHOSMA, Reichb., Consp. 171. 



1. POLYSTACHYUM, Benth. in Wall. PI As. Rar. ii, p 13. 1 to 2 

 feet high ; stem acutely quadrangular, angles smooth or scarcely 

 rough ; leaves long-petioled, ovate, rather acute-crenate, rounded 

 or cuneate at the base ; racemes numerous, slender, 2 to 4 inches 

 lono*; flowers minute, purplish; verticels 6 to 10-flowered, lax, 

 approximated. The Concans. Syn. Ocimum tenuiflorum, Burm. 

 Ind. p 129; O polystachyum, Linn. Mant. p 567 ; Plectranthus 

 parviflorus, Br. Prod, p 506 ; P micranthus, Spr. syst. ii, 691. 



