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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Ocimum nepetse folium Hochst. ex Vatke 1. c. 316. 
O. reflexus var. pallidus Terrac. in Ann, Istit. Bot. Roma V, 101. 
Description : — A small undershrub ; branches numerous from a woody 
rootstock, quadrangular, pubescent. Leaves inodorous, \ — \\ by § — j 
inch, ovate, usually obtuse, crenate or serrate, pubescent on both sides, 
gland-dotted, base shortly cuneate ; petioles J — | inch long. 
Flowers in rather short racemes, the whorls 6-flowered, distant ; 
bracts ^ inch long, hairy ; pedicels about equalling the flowering calyx, 
pubescent. Calyx in flower -J inch long, twice as long, in fruit, the lower 
part hairy ; upper lip with 3 obtuse lobes, the middle lobe widest ; lower 
lip strongly parallel-nerved, membranous, the 2 central teeth with along 
upcurved awn from a narrow lanceolate base, longer than the upper lip, 
the lateral teeth broadly lanceolate with a short straight awn. Corolla 
J inch long, white or pale lilac ; tube nearly as long as the calyx ; upper 
lip shorter than the suborbiculat concave lower lip. Stamens included 
or scarcely exserted beyond the lower lip. Stigma clavate. 
Nutlets inch in diameter, subglobose, smooth, yellowish-brown. 
Flowers and Fruits : — March 1373 (Hildebr.); March 1878 (Perry). 
Locality: — Plain of Maala, hill of Steamer Point, Koosaf Valley 
(Defl.); top of Shum Shum Range at about 1,700 feet (Busse); 
northern slope of Shum Shum Range (Schweinf.) ; without locality 
(Birdw., Playfair); Shum Shum Range, very rare (Perry). 
Distribution: — Nubia, Abyssinia, Eritrea, Socotra, S. Arabia, Balu- 
chistan, Sind, North-Western India, from Kashmir and the Punjab to 
Behar and Travancore. 
Note : — (( Planta variat virescens et canescens, foliis acutiusculis 
et obtusis 99 (Vatke). 
3. Lavandula Linn, 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves incised or entire. 
Flowers in 2 — 10-flowered whorls collected in simple or branched 
spikes ; bracts persistent. Calyx erect, ovoid-tubular, shortly equally 
5-toothed, 13 — 15-nerved. Corolla blue or purple, rarely white, oblique 
2-lipped ; upper lip 2-fid ; lower lip 3-partite with spreading lobes. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate, included ; filaments free ; anther- 
cells confluent. Disk equally 4-lobed, the nutlets dorsally attached to 
the lobes leaving a large areole on separation. Ovary 4-part ite ; style 
shortly 2-fid, the lobes flattened. 
Fruit of 4 dry smooth nutlets ; basal scar slightly oblique. 
Species about 30 
Distribution:— Chiefly Mediterranean, extending westwards to the 
Canary Islands and eastwards to India. 
