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Location. Fragrant flowers and leaves used in garlands and for scenting coconut oil. 2, 3,
5(141), 6, 7(22305).
Ocirnum sanctum L.
demere (N)?; te marou (K)
syn. 0. tenuiJlorum L.
"sacred basil", tulsi (Hindi)
Pre-World War I1 introduction. Trop. Asia, now Pantropical. Rare. Erect,
aromatic, much-branched herb or subshrub up to 1 m high, the branchlets soft-pubescent;
leaves, 3 to 7.5 cm long and 1 to 2.8 cm wide, elliptic to elliptic-oblong or rhomboidal,
obtuse to acute, base cuneate to attenuate, margin entire or remotely serrate, upper bract-
like leaves ovate to cordate, green to grayish-purple, pubescent on both surfaces but
especially on nerves beneath; petioles, up to 2.5 cm long; inflorescences, slender racemes
at stem tips, 8 to 10 cm long, bearing whorls (verticils) of flowers at intervals; brac-
teoles, 2 to 3 mm long, ovate, acuminate, ciliate; pedicels, up to 4.5 mm long; calyx,
2.5 to 3.5 mm long at the anthesis, enlarging to 5 mm in fruit, often purplish, glabrous
within except occasionally puberulent near the base of upper lobe, the upper lip subor-
bicular, reflexed, short-apiculate, the lower lip longer than the upper lip, the teeth 4,
lanceolate; corolla, 3 to 5 mm long, the tube 1.5 to 2 mm long, upper lip with rounded
lobes, lower lip entire, purplish to pale pink or white; stamens 4; fruit, 0.8 to 1.5 mrn
long, nutlets, subglobose-compressed or broadly ellipsoid, purple-green to brown, smooth
to minutely pitted. Planted ornamental. Fragrant flowers and leaves used in garlands and
headbands and for scenting coconut oil. 5, 6, 7.
Plectranthus oertendahlii Fries "Swedish ivy", "prostrate coleus"
Recent introduction. S. Africa. Rare. Prostrate or trailing, tender or somewhat
succulent, perennial herb, up to 50 cm high, with creeping reddish stems; leaves,
suborbicular, velvety, bronze-green with silver along the veins and purplish beneath;
inflorescences, erect or ascending racemes or panicles, 10 to 15 cm long, bearing whorls
(verticils) of flowers at intervals; corolla, 2-lipped, pink. Pot plant. 3(58673, 5878 l), 5,
6.
Plectranthus scutellarioides (L.) R. Br. "painted nettle", "coleus", "paintedleaf
plant "
syns. Coleus scutellarioides (L.) Benth. and C. blumei Benth. ; Ocimum scutellarioides
L.; Solen,ostc?m.on scutellarioides (L.) Codd
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Recent introduction. Malaysia. Occasional. Erect or ascending, tender or
somewhat succulent, aromatic brown-pubescent perennial herb up to 1.5 rn high, the
stems 4-angled and branches glabrous to pubescent; leaves, opposite, 4 to 17 crn long and
3 to 10 cm wide, broadly ovate to ovate-cordate, acute to acuminate, base truncate to