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316. Ocimym sanctum Linn. — F. B. I., iv, p. 609. 
Naterikal road, 3,000 ft., No. 38487. 
Distr. Throughout India generally. 
215. Geniosporum Wall. 
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311. Geniosporum prostratum Benth. — F. B. I., iv, p. 610. 
Mundandurai, 700 ft., No. 39307. 
Distr. South Peninsular India and Ceylon. 
216. Orthosiphon Benth. 
318. Orthosiphon comosus Wight mss. — F. B. I., iv, p. 615. 
Naterikal 3,000 ft., No. 38387. 
I add a complete description of this plant as this is an imperfectly known 
species and Wight’s description was based on imperfect material. 
An erect shrub, 3-5 feet high, tomentose. Stem terete, with multicellular 
shining glandular hairs. Branches usually opposite. Leaves crowded to 
wards the inflorescences, subsessile, obovate, cuneate, crenato-serrate, with 
shining hairs on both surfaces. Racemes terminal, very long, rachis stout, 
somewhat 4-angled, verticillasters laxly arranged, 6-flowered. Bracts 
rose-coloured, upper ones larger, foliaceous, obovate, 3-nerved, nearly 
entire, glandular, concealing the flower buds and deciduous. 
Calyx \ in. erect but deflexed when fruiting, upper lip broad, entire, con- 
cave at first and convex when fruiting, lower lip with 4 subulate teeth. — 
Corolla !| in.-2 in. long, pubescent without, tube long, slender, indexed 
towards the tip. Upper lip slightly larger than the lower, 3 lobed, mid-lobe 
very slightly emarginate, lower lip entire, concave. 
Stamens 4 free, declinate. 
Disc gibbous. Style filiform, Stigma clavate, Nutlets ovoid, smooth. 
Distr. Probably found only in -the Tinnevelly hills. 
310. Orthosiphon glahratus Benth. — F. B. I., iv, 614. 
Sengalteri to Kalkad, No. 39247. 
Distr. South Peninsular India and Ceylon. 
320. Orthosiphon tomentosus Benth. — F. B. I., iv, p. 613. 
Sengalteri to Kalkad, No. 39245 ; Mundandurai, 700 ft., No. 39342. 
Distr. South Peninsular India and Ceylon. 
211. Plectranthns L’Herit. 
321. Plectranthns menthoidcs Benth.— F. B. I., iv, p. 620. 
Naterikal to Sengalteri, 3,500 ft., No. 38615" 
Distr. South Peninsular India and Ceylon. 
322. ♦Pleetramthus nigrescens Benth— F. B. I., iv, p. 617. 
Naterikal to Sengalteri, 3,500 ft., No. 38626. 
Distr. Ceylon. A new record for South India. 
