Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 696 717 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Ocimum basilicum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 597. 1753 . "Habitat in India, Persia." RCN: 4335. Lectotype (Morton in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 58: 234. 1962): Herb. Linn. No. 749.5 ( LINN ) . Generitype of Ocimum Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 166. 1929). Current name: Ocimum basilicum L. ( Lamiaceae ).