BOHAGINAC.:ii/K LAMIACE*;. 447 



E. divaricata, DC. b Havannah. — E. Radula, Poir. o St. Domingo. — 

 Beurreria exsucca, Jacq. b St. Thomas. Mexico. — B. succulenta, Jacq. 

 b Jiimi\\c'd.— Cortesiacu7ieifolia, Cav. S Buenos Ayres. — Rhabdia lijci- 

 oides, Mart, B Brazil. 



ORDER CXCVII.— LAMIACEyE, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 275. — 

 (LABIATE, Juss.) 



THE MINT TRIBE. 



Herbs or undershrubs, seldomer shrubs, by Bentham, (Gen. and Spec. 

 Labiatarum 1832-1836,) arranged under 110 genera, in 1 1 sections, 'i'o 

 this work we must refer for the distribution of the order, only adding that 

 the number of E. Indian species, amounts to 299 ; viz. 80 of Ocimece ; 38 

 of Menthea ; 8 of Monardea ; 4 of Sature'iece ; 7 of Melissece ; \2 of 

 Scutellari'ecE ; of Prostantherea ; 25 of Nepetea ; 93 of Siachyece ; 14 of 

 Prasiea ; and 1 8 of AjugecB. Many of these have been found in the plains, 

 but the bulk of them consists of Mountain plants, especially from the 

 Northern Provinces. 



*' Tonic, cordial, and stomachic qualities, due to the presence of an 

 aromatic volatile oil and a bitter princi[)le, are the universal features of 

 LabiatsB, which do not contain a single unwholesome or even suspicious 

 species." {Lindl.) 



A. OciMEiE. 



(Ocymoidese, Benth. ; — G. Dons Mill. diet. 4, p. (366.) 

 OciMUM, L. (Benth. Lab. gen. and sp.p. 1 ; — O. Don. I. c.) 



\. canum, Sims. {B. M. 51, t. 2452 ; — G. Don. I. c. ;—J. Grah. Cat. B. 

 pi. p. 147. — O americanum, L. amoen. 4, p. 276; spec. 833; not 

 Jacq. — O. stamineum, B. M. I. c, in the text. — O. incanescens. Mart, 

 and Spix. — O. album, Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 15; not, L.) © Mada- 

 gascar. East Indies. China. Brazil, &c. Fl. white, smaller than those 

 of the next species, R. and C. S. ; fr, C. S. 

 2. Basilicum, L. (G. Don. I. c.) 



a. pilosum.,Benth.{Lab. p. 4 ; — G. Don. I. c. — O. pilosum, Willd. enum. 

 2, p. 29 ; — Roxb. fi. ind. 3, p. 16. — O. minimum, Burm. ; not L. 

 — O. Basilicum, Burm. — O.hispidum, Lam. — O. ciliatum, Horn. — 

 O. hispidulum, Schum. — Basilicum indicum, Rumph. 5, t. 92,/. 1,) 

 ^t^^ TagiTf)" Bubooi-tulsee. ^ Peninsula of India. Bengal, (Seram- 

 pore,) Hindoosthan, Oude, &c. Fl. small, white, and fr. nearly the 

 whole year. Whole plant aromatic, fragrant. — The seeds steeped 

 in water swell into a pleasant jelly, which is used by the natives in 

 cases of catarrh, dysentery, chronic diarrhcea, &c. and is very nour- 

 ishing and demulcent. 



