Orthosiphon.} LABIATA. 843 
Flowers pink, stems purplish :— 
Spikes si mple Basilicum var. purpurascens. 
Spikes rae Basilicum var. thyrsiflora. 
1625. Ocimum sanctum Linn.; F. I. iii. 14; F. B. I. iv. 609; 
In all the provinces, cultivated. 
herb, sometimes woody at the base. Vernac. Tulsi. 
1626. Ocimum Gratisstmum Linn. ; 7 Bm. 17s FB ay, 608 
. O. 28. 
Orissa; C. Bengal; E. ane Chittagong. 
A shrub. Vernac. Ram tul 
1627. Ocimum canum Sims; F. = ; iv. BOT) i. DO 26. 
O. album F. I. iii. 15. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur; W. Bengal. 
A herb, 1-2 feet high. Santal. Bharbari. 
1628. Ocimum Basrnicum nn. 5b. I. m. 17; FP. Bi. iv. Oe 
tO. De, CF, clei I. iii. 16. O. caryophyllatum 
FVTI. iii. 16. 
Tn all the provinces, cultivated and as if wild. 
Aherb. Vernac. Babui tulsi. 
1628/2. Var. purpurascens Benth. 
In most of the provinces, cultivated. 
A herb. 
1628/3. Var. ruyrsirtora Benth. 0. th bo be Y. 1. i 1 
In most of the provinces, cultivat 
herb. 
737. Orthosiphon Benth. 
Undershrubs or shrubs. Flowers small or medium, in 6- 0 
fewer-flowered whorls, racemose; bracts small. Sepals 5, oa 
in an ovoid, campanulate, or tubular calyx, deflexed in fruit ; upper 
tooth broad, membranous, margins decurrent on the tube, lateral 
and lower distinct or shortly connate, usually subulate. Petals 5, 
connate in a 2. -lipped corolla; tube often lends straight or 
incurved ; upper lip 4-fid; lower entire, conca Stamens 4, 
didynamous, declinate ; Siabnetite free, Paco ; anther-cells 
confluent. Disi; usually gibbous. Carpels connate in a 4-partite 
Ovary; style with a minute, capitate or clavate, entire or notched 
Stigma. Fruit of 4 dry, ovoid or orbicular nutlets, smooth or 
Nearly so; basal scar sm: 
