ON SELECT INDIAN PLANTS. zgy 



bicular, deeply concave externally. Corol blueish 

 purple. The whole plant has a dusky purplish 

 hue approaching to black, and thence, perhaps, 

 like the large black bee of this country, it is held 

 sacred to Crishna; though a fable, perfectly 

 Ovidian. be told in the Purdnas concerning; the 

 metamorphosis of the nymph Tulasi, who was 

 beloved by the pastoral God, into the shrub, which 

 has since borne her name. It may not be improper 

 to add, that the IVhite Ocymum is in Sanscrit 

 called Arjaca. 



$$. Pa'tali : 



Syn. Pa tola, Ambghiu Cdchasfhdli, Plialcrnha y 

 Crishnavrinta, Cuverach). Some read Mogha* and 

 Ca'ldsfhdH\ 



Vulg. Pa raid, Par all. Pa rid. 



Linn. Big no ni a. Chelonoides P 



Cal. Perianth one-leaved, belled, villous, withering 

 obscurely five-angled from the points of the divi- 

 sions, five-parted , divisions roundish, pointed, the 

 two lowest most distant. 



Cor. One-petaled, belled. Tube very short; 

 throat oblong- belled, gibbous. Border five- 

 parted ; the two higher divisions reflected, each 

 minutely toothed ; convex externally ; the three 

 wet divisions, above, expanded; below, ribbed, 

 furrowed, very villous. Palate nearly closing the 

 throat. Nectary, a prominent rim, surrounding 

 the germ, obscurely five-parted. 



St am. Filaments four or five, incurved, inserted 

 below the upfjer division of the border, shorter 



than 



