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 f 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 j^in., 
hairy. Filaments exserted. Fruiting Calyx iVin., 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.l. 
973 . Orthosiphon stamineus, Dentham, h.f.b.I., 
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 
