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Eng. : — Rosary tulsi.

Habitat : — Plains and lower hills of India.

Strongly scented erect herbaceous, pubescent plants, branched from the base, l-2ft., high. Leaves l-l½in . 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 1/6in., 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).

Syn. : — 0. pilosum, Willd ; 0. caryophyllatum, Roxb. 464.

Sans. : — Vishvatulasi.

Vern. : — -Sháhasfaram, raihán (Arab. ; Shúhasparam, názbi, dabán-sháh (Pers.); Sabzah (Hind, and Dec); Tirunitru, Karandai pachch-ai, uruttirajadai (Tam.); Rudra-jeda (Tel.) ; Ramatulasi, Vibudi patri, tulasi-Krittâbu (Mal.) ; Kám-kastúrí, nirutulasi, Kammagaggare, Karvagagri-gida (Kan.) ; Bábuitulshí (BengJ ; Sabza (Guz.); Pinzain Pinzin (Barm.); Sabajhi (Sind) ; Tulsi, babúri (Pb.).

Habitat : —Throughout tropical and hotter India, cultivated from the Punjab to Travancore. Indigenous in the Punjab on low hills.

N. 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