842 BENGAL PLANTS. (Ocimum. 
+Corolla 2-lipped, upper entire or emarginate concave, lower 
spreading, 3-fid; anthers dimidiate; connective transverse, 
linear, jointed with filament, posterior arm ascending with a 
a oe ee or naked; calyx 5-nerved bps St8) osc.s: Salvi 
ona saat x pair of stamens stisris [p. 839] ‘cidquiphostanaisia 
*Ovary 4-lobed; nutlets with a large, oblique, or lateral areola on the 
inner “ido; ; stamens 4, perfect, erect, exserted from the notch or fissure 
of the upper lip :—[p. 8 
Corolla deeply slit behind, and apparently 1-lipped, the two small 
upper lobes, along with the ccna lateral pair, springing from the con- 
tracted base of the very large lower lobe Teucrium. 
Corolla distinctly 2- ae cape lip short, 2-lobed, notched ; lateral 
pair of lobes very small, springing from sides of very large lower lobe 
Ajuga. 
736. Ocimum Linn 
Strongly scented herbs, undershrubs, or ition Flowers small, 
in 6-10-flowered whorls, spicate or racemose, tips of pedicels 
recurved; bracts minute, caducous. Sepals 5, connate in an 
ovoid or campanulate calyx, deflexed in fruit; upper tooth 
broadest, decurrent, 2 lowest teeth acuminate. Petals 5, connate 
in a nba corolla ; tube short, not annulate within; upper lip 
subequ 4-fid; lower hardly longer, fee oe entire. Stamens 
4, Le declinate, exserted; filaments free or the lower 
pair connate below, eon or the upper toothed or hairy below; 
anther-cells confluent. Disk entire or 3—-4-lo Carpels connate 
in a 4-partite ovary ; res -lobes iB or pees Fruit of 
4 dry, smooth or subrugose nutlets, mucilaginous when moist ; 
basal scar sm. 
os as long as the calyx, two lower calyx-teeth longer than oie Rede 
ume 
roe shorter than the calyx :— 
Bracts sessile, longer than the calyx, two lower calyx-teeth minute 
gratissinum. 
Bracts petioled, shorter than the calyx; two lower calyx-teeth longer 
Corolla +2 in. long canum. 
Corolla -4-°5 in. long :— 
ers white, stems green Basilicum. 
Pa eet SR 
