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Mueller ; Bowen, Isaacs and Suttor Rivers, Bowman, and many other inland localities. 
Widely diffused over tropical Asia, extending into Africa, but usually with broader leaves than 
in Australia. It is frequently cultivated in East Indian gardens, about temples, Ac , for its 
strong aromatic properties. 
Leaves crushed up in water in a cooliman and drunk for fevers and sickness.— Palmer. 
2. MOSCHOSMA, Reichb. 
(From its musk-like scent.) 
Fruiting-calyx somewhat enlarged, erect spreading or reflexed, the upper tooth 
broad, with the margins scarcely decurrent, forming an upper lip, the 4 lower 
teeth small, acute, nearly equal. Corolla-tube straight, rarely exceeding the 
calyx, the 4 upper lobes united in a broad 3- or 4-lobed upper lip, the fifth lower 
lobe entire, flat or slightly concave, about as long as the upper lip. Stamens 4, 
declinate, the filaments without any appendage ; anther-cells confluent. Style 
shortly clavate at the end, entire or emarginate. Nuts smooth or minutely 
granular. — Herbs, usually annual and much branched. Flowers minute, in false 
whorls of G to 10, all turned to one side and numerous in slender one-sided 
racemes, the floral leaves reduced to very small deciduous bracts. Foliage 
said to have a musky smell. 
The genus comprises but very few species extending over tropical Asia and Africa. Of the 
two Australian species, one is common in East India, the other appears to be endemic. 
Fruiting-calyx reflexed or very spreading, campanulate. Racemes loose 1. M. polystachyum. 
Fruiting-calyx erect or slightly spreading, tubular-campanulate. Racemes 
dense 2 . M. australe. 
1. 1VI. polystachyum (spikes numerous), DC. Prod. xii. 48; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. v. 75. An erect slender much branched annual of 1 to 2ft., slightly 
pubescent or nearly glabrous, the stems acutely 4-angled. Leaves on long 
petioles, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, toothed, 1 to 2in. long, the upper 
ones small. Racemes numerous, terminating the main branches as well as short 
axillary branchlets, slender and loose. Flowers white or very pale blue, about 
f line long. Calyx minute when in flower, when in fruit 1 to H lines long, 
rather broadly campanulate, very spreading or reflexed, the upper lobe very broad 
and slightly decurrent. Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx, the lips about 
as long as the tube. — Ocimum polystachyon, Linn. Mant. 567 ; Plectrantlius 
parviflorus, R. Br. Prod. 506, not of Willd. 
Hab.: Broadsound, B. Brown; Wide Bay, Bidwill ; Port Denison, Fitzalan; Rockingham 
Bay, Dallachy ; Amity and Nerkool Creek, Bowman; Rockhampton, O'Shanesy ; Balonne 
River, Mitchell; Barron River, E. Cowley ; Flinders River, C. F. Plant ; Mt. Perry, J. Keys. 
The species is a common weed in tropical Asia, extending into Africa. 
2. 3M. australe (Australian), Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 76; DC. Prod. xii. 48. 
An erect herb of 2 or 3ft., closely allied to M. polystachyum , but coarser, the 
foliage and calyxes usually more pubescent and the racemes more dense and 
spike-like. Fruiting-calyx more erect, longer and not so broad in proportion as 
in M. polystachyum, the upper lobe not so broad, and the lower ones broader than 
in that species ; the corolla-tube more slender, slightly exceeding the calyx, 
the lips shorter than the tube. Middle lobe of the upper lip emarginate in 
M. australe (lip 4-lobed), entire in M. polystachyum (lip 3-lobed), according to R. 
Brown. — Plectrantlius moschatus, R. Br. Prod. 506. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Brown. 
3. ORTHOSIPHON, Benth. 
(Referring to the straight tube of the corolla.) 
Fruiting-calyx enlarged and reflexed, the upper tooth orbicular or ovate with 
the margins decurrent, forming an upper lip, the 4 lower teeth small and pointed. 
Corolla-tube straight or somewhat curved, longer than the calyx, 4 upper lobes 
