Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench

?'I IV.
YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
05030682*
TRUMAN G. YUNCKER HERBARIUM
OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY (DPU)
PURCHASED BY NY IN 1987,
Herbarium of the University of California
Tanner 1077
Vernacular name: Kisukumar Ilumba ya hasi
Uses: Burnt in milking pots to give pleasant
smell to milk.
Determined at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
Herbarium of the University of California
T A-N G A N y I K A, AFRICA
f- Lake Province *.
Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench
On heavy black fissuring clay, in thick
grass. Stems four-sided, 1 foot tall,
branched, spreading, purple-tinged; sap
colourless; flowers yellow green, the
whole plant aromatic. Altitude 1*000 feet
Chiefdom, Mwanza District
R. E. S, Tanner 1077	20	October 1952
05030682