Rosmarinus officinalis
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Distribution
Java in the mountain districts cultivated, the Mediterranean region
Native of the Mediterranean region; in Java in the mountain districts locally cultivated as an ornamental.
Notes
Also cultivated in gardens for medicinal purposes and commonly sold in the markets in the Philippines, where it is used to bathe women in the puerperal state and against rheumatism and catarrhs; macerated in alcohol it is in use as a hair lotion, said to prevent baldness.
Citation
LINNE: THUNB. 1918: Sp. Blanc.: 336
BACK. & BAKH.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 618
LINNE: THUNB. 1935 – In: Trans. Am. Phil. Soc.: 339
LINNE: THUNB. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 409
LINNE: THUNB. 1877: p. 28. – In: Fl. Filip., ed. 3: t. 94
F.-VILL. 1880: Nov. App.: 165
BLANCO 1837: Fl. Filip.: 20
LINNE: THUNB. 1917: Int. Rumph.: 456
QUIS. 1951: Medic. Pl. Philip.: 831
Merr. 1912: Fl. Manila: 407
LINNE: THUNB. 1845: Fl. Filip., ed. 2: 15