Ocimum gratissimum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1197. 1753.

"Habitat in India." RCN: 4333.

Neotype (Cramer in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 3: 112. 1981): Herb. Linn. No. 749.2 (LINN) .

Current name: Ocimum gratissimum L. ( Lamiaceae).

Note: Although Herb. Linn. 749.2 (LINN) is not original material for this name, the absence of any other original material means that Cramer’s treatment of it as “type” is to be treated as a correctable error and accepted as a neotypification under Art. 9.8. This pre-dates its explicit treatment as a neotype by Paton (in Kew Bull. 47: 411. 1992).