Spec. Char. Stem procumbent at the base, rooting : branches 

 erect, thick, fleshy : leaves petioled, ovate-rounded or cuneate, run- 

 ping into the petiole, smooth, thick; floral leaves bract-like: ra- 

 cemes simple : verticils rather lax, many-flowered, approximated i 

 corolla three times longer than the calyx, declinate. 



The Goncans. 



(3) P. coKDiFOLius. {Don.) 



Ident. Don. prod. flor. Nep. p. 116.— Dec. prod. XII. p. 6Q. 



Syn. Ocimum Mayporense, Roth.— P. Maypurensis, Spreng.—- 

 P. secundus, Roxb. — P. incanus, Link, — O. molle, Ait.—V, 

 mollis, Sprenj, 



Engrav. Rheede Mai. X. t. 84. 



Spec Char. Pubescent or tomentose, hoary : stem herbaceous, 

 erect : leaves petioled, broadly ovate- crenate, cordate at the base ; 

 floral leaves bract-like, ovate-cuneate : racemes lax, paaicled : ver- 

 ticils secund, few-flowered : corolla scarcely twice as long as calyx, 

 tube bent in the middle, the throat dilated: flowers small, pale-blue, 

 Or yellow. 



About Kandalla. Sawunt Warree. Mysore. Flowering in 

 October and November. 



(4) P. BDLtAius. (Benth.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XII. p. 56. 



Spec Char. Stem erect, scarcely branched, pubescent or 

 villous : leaves very shortly petioled, ovate-orbiculate, cordate at 

 the base, bullately wrinkled, a little hispid beneath, floral ones 

 small : panicles much branched, many-flowered : calyx incurved, 

 striated, hispidulous : corolla-tube somewhat inflated, scarcely 

 twice as long as the calyx : stamens exserted. 



Moist woods on the Neilgherries. 



{5) P. GRACILJFX.ORUS. (Benth,) 



Ident, Dec. prod. XII. p. 56. 



Spec. Char. Stem glabrous : leaves petioled, or the upper 

 ones subsessile, ovate-oblong, long-acuminate, serrated, long-nar- 

 rowed at the base, scabrously hispid above, glabrous below, floral 

 ones lanceolate-subulate : peduncles and branches of the cymes 

 slender : calyx incurved, striated : corolla-tube more than twice aa 

 long as the calyx : stamens scarcely exceeding the lower lipi 



Silhet mountains. Assam, 



