529 
; tt, No. 8, 1906, Herb. Kew), Abinsi, Muri Province 
Dalziel, No. 773, 1912, Herb. Kew) ; and in West Africa generally. 
Used as a febrifuge, Gambia (Dudgeon, Gambia Govt. Gaz. 6th 
12 i 
erb. Kew). Various medicinal uses are attributed to the TS 
ourn. 
Soc. Arts, liii. 1905, p. 1068, Holmes, Pharm. 
p- 963), and it is used as salad, Old Calabar. 
The oil is orange-yellow, with an aromatic thyme-like odour and 
pungent taste. Leaves from Northern Nigeria yielded 1-21 per 
cent. (Bull. Imp. Inst. 1908, p. 209; 1914, p. 131), and from Sierra 
Leone (sample of 116 Ib. yielding on distillation 64 oz. of oil) 0-35 
per cent. (Sierra Leone, Roy. Gaz. Jan. 11, 1908, p. 15; Bull. 
Imp. Inst. Lc.). The large proportion (32 per cent.) of thymol 
gives the oil some antiseptic value (l.c.), and it may prove a valuable 
source of this drug. 
open bush, Batanga oe te 
Ref.—* Fever Plant (Ocymum viride),’’ Holmes, in Pharm. 
Journ. [3] viii. 1878, p. 563. “ A Pot of Basil," Shipley, in 
Nature, Jan. 1, 1903, pp. 205-206.— —' Mosquito Plants," in 
“Ocimum viride," from West Africa," in Bull. 
Imp. Inst. vi. 1908, p. 209. “Report on the Oil of Ocimum 
viride from Sierra Leone," Dunstan, in Sierra Leone Roy. Gaz. 
Jan. 11th, 1908, pp. 15-16. 
AEOLANTHUS, Mart. 
Aeolanthus pubescens, Benth.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 394. 
Vernac. name.—Iko (Eifik, Old Calabar, Holland). 
Lagos, Abeokuta, Old Calabar, Jeba, Mount Patti, Lokoja. 
Used as a salad, Old Calabar. : 
A slender erect annual, 1-3 ft. high. 
