Compilation
Ocimum serpyllifolium

stems several from a perennial woody rootstock, herbaceous, 5–10 in. high, puberulous; leaves with petioles 1/2–2 lin. long; blade 3/4–2 1/4 in. long, 1/4–1 1/4 in. broad, varying from lanceolate to suborbicular, acute or obtuse, usually tapering into the petiole, entire or slightly toothed, usually glabrous on both sides, occasionally puberulous on the veins beneath, secondary veins usually distinctly visible beneath; flower-whorls all crowded into a dense head-like or short spike-like raceme or the lower 1–3 distant, all with a pair of rather large crater-like glands at their base; racemes often crowned with a tuft of small dark (purple?) leafy bracts; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 (in fruit up to 1 1/2) lin. long; calyx campanulate, whitish-pubescent outside, glabrous within, much reticulated, dark purple on the upper side; tube 1 1/2 (in fruit 3) lin. long, ciliate and entire or finely denticulate at the mouth between the dorsal and lower teeth; dorsal tooth about 1 lin. long, elliptic-ovate, obtuse, decurrent on the tube; lower teeth 1/4– 3/4 lin. long, bristle-like; corolla white or pink (Wood), pubescent on the lips outside; tube 3 lin. long; upper lip 3 1/2–5 lin. long from the base of gape, with 4 subquadrate somewhat toothed or crisped lobes, 2 lateral shorter and broader than the others; lower lip 1/5– 1/4 in. long, concave, elliptic, obtuse; stamens all free, much exserted; upper pair 7–9 lin. long, with a retrorse ciliate crest at the bend near the base of the filaments; lower pair 3/4 in. long; nutlets slightly compressed, orbicular, 1/16 in. in diam., pale brown. null