N. O. LABIATE. 1011 



Eng. : — Rosary tulsi. 



Habitat : — Plains and lower hills of India. 



Strongly scented erect herbaceous, pubescent plants, branched 

 from the base, l-2ft., high. Leaves l-ljin . narrowly ovate, 

 toothed or entire ; petiole very slender, usually ciliate. Bracts 

 stalked, ovate awned, not so large as the nearly glabrous Calyx ; 

 spikes 3-8in. ; whorls rather close. Flowers subsessile. Calyx 

 ciliate, two lower Calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, awned, longer 

 than the rounded upper ; lateral smaller than the lower. Corolla 

 i'm., long, white. Filaments twice as long as the Corolla, hairy 

 at the knee. Nutlets pitchy black, narrowly ellipsoid, punctulate. 



Uses : — During fever, when the extremities are cold, the 

 leaves, made into a paste, are applied to the finger-and toe- 

 nails. The same preparation is used as a en re for parasitical 

 diseases of the skin (Revd. A. Campbell). 



969. 0. Basilicum, Linn, h.f.b.l, iv. 608 ; 

 Roxb. 464. 



Syn. : — 0. pilosum, Willd ; 0. caryophyl latum, Roxb. 464. 



Sans. : — Vishvatulasi. 



Vern. : — -Shahasfararn, raihan (Arab. ; Shuhasparam, nazbi, 

 daban-shah (Pers.); Sabzah (Hind, and Dec); Tirunitru, Karandai 

 pachch-ai, uruttirajadai (Tarn.); Rudra-jeda (Tel.) ; Ramatulasi, 

 Vibudi patri, tulasi-Krittabu (Mai.) ; Kam-kastiiri, nirutulasi, 

 Kammagaggare, Karvagagri-gida (Kan.) ; Babuitulshf (BengJ ; 

 Sabza (Guz.); Pinzain Pinzin (Barm.); Sabajhi (Sind) ; Tulsi, 

 baburi (Pb.). 



Habitat : —Throughout tropical and hotter India, cultivated 

 from the Punjab to Travancore. Indigenous in the Punjab on 

 low hills. 



N. B.— Commonly known and sold in Bombay as sab/a. It is used as an 

 ofiering over the graves every Friday by the Mahomedans of Bombay (K.R.K.) 



Herbaceous plants, 2-2ft. high, erect, glabrous or pubescent. 

 The Ceylon form, says Trimen, is generally perfectly smooth ; 

 stems and branches green or sometimes purplish. Leaves l-3in. 

 long, ovate, toothed or entire, copiously gland-dotted, aromatic 

 sweet-smelling Bracts petiolate. Fruiting calyx very shortly 

 pedicelled, two lower teeth ovate-lanceolate, awned, longer 



