1016 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Annual prostrate herbs. Stems many, from a woody stock, slen- 

 der, glabrous, pubescent or hirsute. Leaves in distant pairs very 

 variable, from \ by fin. to 2 by -fin., rather thick, base narrow, 

 sessile or petioled, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, or linear, sparingly 

 toothed. Spikes elongate, slender ; whorls close or distant, 

 in slender racemes 2-6in. long ; bracts ovate, acute, reflexed. 

 Flowers green, occasionally white, minute, pedicelled. Calyx 

 hairy, upper lip very variable in size, throat hairy. Corolla tV*a., 

 hairy. Filaments exserted. Fruiting Calyx Ain., subcampanu- 

 late, ribbed, tube not pitted ; calyx- throat with a ring of hairs. 

 Nutlets very minute, elliptic, smooth, naked. 



Use. : — It is regarded as febrifuge at Pondicherry. (Ph. 

 Tnd.). 



973. Orthosiphon stamineus, Bentham, h.f.b.l, 

 iv. 615. 



Syn : — Ocimum grandiflorum, Blume. 0. longiflorum, Ham. 



Habitat : — Assam and Southern India. 



Undershrubs, slender, glabrous or pubescent. Stems l-2ft., 

 4-angled. Leaves in distant pairs, 2-4in., narrowed into the peti- 

 ole, ovate, acuminate or coarsely toothed, base cuneate. Race- 

 mes very lax-fid. Calyx fin,, campanulate, Calyx-throat naked ; 

 2 lower teeth subulate. Corolla lin., glabrous, white or purplish. 

 Corolla-tube very slender, thrice as long as the Calyx. Fila- 

 ments far exserted, capillary, twice as long as the corolla. 

 Nutlets broadly oblong, compressed, rugulose. 



Dr. Hooker writes in Curtis Bot. Mag. for April 1st, 1870 : — 



" It is a very wide-spread Eastern plant from Assam and 

 Burma to the Philippine islands, and from the Nicobars and 

 Siam to Java, Borneo and Cape Goole in North-East Australia. 

 It is a stone plant, a profuse flowerer, and of very pretty 

 appearance." 



Uses : — Dr. Van Itallie uses the leaves for gout and in renal 

 disorders (Ph, J. Oct. 2, 1886, p. 267). In Java, the leaves are 

 made into a tea and used in the treatment of diseases of the 

 kidneys and bladder. In Holland and France, they have been 



