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Lester, l.c.) Various medicinal uses are attributed to the plant in 
India (Watt, Dymock, seq.). 
An annual, 1-3 ft. high, commonly cultivated, reproduced freely 
from seed, easily grown and often met with as a weed. : 
Re}.—* Ocimum basilicum,” in Dict. Econ. Prod. India, Watt, 
v. part 2, 1891, pp. 440-442.——*‘ Ocimum basilicum,” in Phar- 
macogr. Indica, Dymock, Warden & Hooper, iii. pp. 83-85. 
Ocimum canum, Sims; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 337. [Ocimum ameri- 
canum. Mill.]. 
Ill.—Jacq. Hort. Bot. Vindob. iii. t. 86 (O. americanum); Desc. 
Ant. iv. t. 301 (O. americanum); Bot. Mag. t. 2452; Blanco, Fl. 
Filip. t. 257, £. 2. 
Vernac. names.—Efinrin Maragbosanyan (Oloke-Meji, Dodd); 
Efirin Oshu (Lagos, Moloney) ; Efirin nla (Lagos, Dawodu); Iyino 
n annual, 1-3 ft. high, commonly cultivated, often found 
wild about native towns and compounds, easily raised from seed. 
Ref.— Essence D'Ocymum canum." Charabot, in L’ Agric. 
prat. pays chauds, ii. 1902-03, “ Etudes sur les Produits odorants 
des Col. Franc.," pp. 395-396. 
Ocimum suave, Willd.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 338. 
[O. gratissimum, var. suave, Hook. Fl. Brit. India, iv. p. 609.] 
rnac. name.—Romba (Madagascar, Heckel). 
Kontagora (Dalziel, No. 138, 1905, Herb. Kew), and widely 
distributed in Tropical Africa and Asia. 
Used medicinally in India (Dict. Econ. Prod. India) and in 
Madagascar (Heckel, Ann. Inst. Col. Marseille, i. fasc. 2, 1903, 
pp. 141-142, ** Romba,"' O. gratissimum). 
A much branched herbaceous erennial, found in a wood near 
native village, Kontagora (Dalziel, Herb. Kew), as a tall herb with 
clove-scented leaves, Chipete, Rhodesia, 3800 £ft. (Swynnerton, 
Herb. Kew). 
Ocimum viride, Willd.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 337. 
Ill.—Pal. de Beauv. Fl. Oware, Benin, t. 94 (O. heptodon) ; Bot. 
Reg. (1823) t. 753 (O. febrifugum) ; Nature, Jan. Ist. 1903, p. 
(leaves drawn from a dried specimen, raceme from Bot. Reg. (l.c.). 
