N. O. LAB I ATM'’. 
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Eng. : — Rosary tulsi. 
Halitat : — Plains and lower hills of India. 
Strongly scented erect herbaceous, pubescent plants, branched 
from the base, l-2ft., high. -Leaves 1-1-Jin . 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 
Jin., 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 cure for parasitical 
diseases of the skin (Revd. A. Campbell). 
969. 0. Basilicum, Linn, ii.f.b.i., iv. 608 ; 
Roxb. 464. 
Syn. : — 0. pilosum, Willd ; 0. caryophyl latum, Roxb. 464. 
Sans. : — Visit vatulasi. 
Venn. : — Shahasfaram, raiban (Arab. ; Shuhasparam, ndzbi, 
daban-shah (Pers.); Sabzah (Hind, and Dec.); Tirunitru, Karandai 
pachch-ai, uruttirajadai (Tam.); Rudra-jeda (Tel.) ; Ramatulasi, 
Vibudi patri, tulasi-Krittabu (Mai.); Kam-kasturi, nirutulasi, 
Kammagaggare, Karvagagri-gida (Kan.) ; Babuitulshi (BengJ ; 
Sabza (Guz.); Pinzain Pinzin (Burrn.); Sabajhi (Sind); Tulsi, 
baburi (Pb.). 
Habitat : —Throughout tropical and hotter India, cultivated 
from the Punjab to Travancore. Indigenous in the Punjab on 
low hills. 
IV. B.— Commonly known and sold in Bombay as sab/a. It is used as an 
offering 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 
