704 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



52 ; Wall. Cat. 2727 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5833 ; Miq. El. Ind. Bat. II. 944 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 615. Ocimum gratidiflorum, Blume Bijdr. 835. 

 0. longiflorum, Ham. in "Wall. Cat. /. c. 



Perak : Kunstler ! Singapore : Deschaynps ! Nicobabs : Kurz ! — 

 DiSTRiB. South-eastern Asia and Australia. 



3. Hyptis, Jacq. 



Herbs or shrubs. Fleecers small or medium, very variously 

 arranged ; in our species arranged in dense capitate or lax secund 

 heads ; bracts subulate or setaceous. Calyx 10-nerved, ovate or cam- 

 panulate or tubular ; teeth 5 ; subequal, erect. Corolla 5-lobed ; lov^est 

 lobe abruptly deflexed, with thickened margin, saccate and contracted at 

 the base; the other lobes erect or spreading, flat. Stamens 4, declinate ; 

 filaments free, without basal appendages ; anther-cells confluent. Dish 

 entire, regular or somew^hat gibbous in front. Style with subentire or 

 2-fid stigma. Nutlets oblong or ovoid, smooth or rugulose. — Distrib. 

 Species about 250, all American ; a few introduced and established in 

 the Tropics of the Old World. 



Flowers in dense, globose, axillary, many-flowered heads .. 1. H.hrevipes. 



Flowers in lax, secund, racemose, few-flowered heads . . 2. if. suaveolens. 



1. Hyptis brevipes, Poit. Ann. Mus. Par. VII. 465 (1806). An 

 erect annual herb, 2 to 3 ft. high. Stems glabrate or pilose. Leaves 

 opposite, membranous, medium-green and sparsely hispid throughout 

 above, paler and pubescent on the nerves beneath, ovate-oblong or 

 lanceolate ; apex acute ; base long-cuneate, entire ; margin elsewhere 

 serrate ; 2 to 3 in. long, -75 to 1 in. wide ; petiole '25 to -5 in. long. 

 Floivers in dense heads, '4 in. in diam., on axillary, hispid, slender 

 peduncles -4 to -5 in. long ; bracts ciliate, lanceolate or subulate, 

 rigid, -2 in. long. Calyx subtubular, -1 in. (in fruit -15 in.) long, 

 ciliate ; teeth erect, subequal, subulate, as long as the tube. Corolla 

 •2 in. long ; tube slender. Nutlets ovoid, brown, minutely rugulose. 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. XII. 107 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 959 ; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 630. 



Malacca : Griffith 3961 ! Penang : King ! Singapore : Kunstler ! 

 Perak : Scortechini ! Andamans : at Port Blair, King ! — Disteib. 

 America, from Brazil to Mexico ; Tropical Africa and the Malay 

 Archipelago, introduced. 



Hyjitis capitata, Jacq., a species in habit resembling H. brevipfis, is frequently met 

 with in gardens in S.E. Asia. It sometimes occurs spontaneously in waste places in 

 India, and appears to have become established in the Philippines and in Formosa. The 



