Flora indica, or, Descriptions of Indian plants : reprinted literatim from Carey's edition of 1832 / by the late William Roxborough.

  • William Roxburgh
Date:
1874
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Credit: Flora indica, or, Descriptions of Indian plants : reprinted literatim from Carey's edition of 1832 / by the late William Roxborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    simple, cylindvie. Involucrets simple, and bearded, surrounding on every side a single flower; seed smooth. This spe,-: , , rung up in beds in the Botenie garden where earth had been thrown that <-uii tv • . , Vmboyna. Compare with P. polystachyon. Lints. tp. pi. ed. WiUd. i. 835. £ ,ii.,.ii . . • ...-iL Culm* erect, about five feet high, simple, till near the top, there verv '••itiioii-. Learns lanceolate, often a foot uml a lull’ long, hispid on the margins, other* wise smooth; the sheaths about half the length of the joints, with a few single hairs at the mouth. Spikes terminal, and solitary (though from the numerous ramification of the top of the culms the whole may lie called a large leafy panicle) sub-eyllndrie, ah >ut three or four indies long. Inrohten-U two sorts, the longest about twice the length of the flowers with their lower half bearded, (hence tlic specific name, which for the same reason is also applicable to my Pant cum holroides,) the innermost one is in this sp- ies about double the length of the other five, six, or seven; all are of a reddish brown colour from the bearded part to the point. The other sort of involucrets an; simple and alrmt the length of the flowers. The two sorts surround on ail sides a single flower, Calyx om-flowereil, exterior valve very minute. Seeds smooth, slender and (minted. Ofe-v. It differs from my 1*. holcohles in the culms being very ruinous at the top only, and iu the l aves being lanceolate; from polystachyon it differs. 1 think, in having two sorts of involucrets equally disposed round the flower, and in the leaves being lanceolate tuid smooth. 3. P. spicatum. It. Kreet. Spikes cylindric. Incoheres hairy, surrounding from one to three aw nless jioly- giunous flowers. Calyces two-valved, both shorter than the eorol, the inner longer uud retuse. Hiilen* spieatus. Lino. sp. pi. ed. WilUi. iv. l.»2S. (Iramen panieeuin. Pluck. Ac. aim. t. 'H.f. 1. good. Hind. Bajent, or Brijru. Pedda-Gaiitev is the Teiinga name of the plant, and Oantdoo, the grain. 1 have only found this iu a cultivated state. It is sown about the beginning of the rains, via. the end of June, and the beginning of July, and is ri(>e in September. Culms several, if the soil is good, from the same grain of seed, erect, with roots from the lowermost joint or two, round, smooth, from three to six feet high, and nearly as thick as the little finger. I Marts ulteniute, sheathing, broad arid long; mouths of the sheaths bearded. Spikes or rather racemes, terminal, cylindric, erect, as thick as a man’s thumb, or more, and from six to nine inches long. Perlitvls generally tuo-flowered, though sometimes only ouu aud sometimes as many as four. Flocxrs surrounded with many, woolly, hispid purple bris- tles or involucre*, about the length of the flower. Calyx two-flowered, one hermaphrodite the other male, two-valved; exterior rah '!, / minute, interior nearly u-> long as the eorol. retime, both awules*. Carol of the hermaphrodite flower two-valved, of the male onc-valved. Style single. Stiynui two-cleft, feathery. Seed obovate, jiearl-coloured, niKKith. Ob*. Jt agives perfectly well with our Indian ejiecies of Pnnicuni, on that account 1 have transferred it to that genus. This specie* is much cultivated over the higher lands on the coast of < 'oromandcl. The soil it likes is one that is loose and rich; in such it yields njiwards of an hundred-fold, tlie same ground will yield a second crop of tliis or some other sort of dry grain during October, No- vember, December, and January. idle Hindoo funner knows four other varieties of this species, all of which lie cultivates. Their Teiinga names arc la/. Pitta (bird-) Gamier; ‘Id. Mttnda-boda- Gaoler; lid. Patla-boda- Ganler: ami tth. Yerra-Gaiitee, Cattle are fond of the straw, and the grain is a very essential article of diet amongst the native* of these (iarts. 4. 1*. i'troltu ra'iim. K. Krect. Spike* cylindric, numerous, scattered, two-flowered, alternately longer and ciliate ; shorter and smooth. Calyces two-valved, the exterior one minute, the inner one shorter Ilian the eorol, aud euiarginate. A native of mountains chiefly, where it grows wild. Culms :i- in the last species, from two to four feet high; joints woolly. Leaves, months of their sheaths bearded. Spikes as in P. spicatum, but the pedicels smaller, two-flowered. In- ro'l'crt, tvoiv bristles surrounding on all sides the flowers; they are of two sorts, simple « v • aa'-at, '• longer ones with fringed margins. Calyx one or two-flowered; vulvelets as si> me i.ist sixties. Carol when there is only one to the calyx it is hermaphrodite, when two, oii-s hermaphrodite, the other mule, as in the last species. Styles two. Obi. I know of uo use this is put to at present; it may lie Panicutn spicatum iu its though it is more like my Pamcum holcoides in its present wild state. Pago Carey hid. •late 335 • i; ,u rolucel one bundle Seed transversely rugose. I. 283 1. 234 wild of hairy bristles, one* 5. P. ylaucum. Linn. sp. pi. ed. 1C Cal ms erect, from one to three feet flowered. Floe; is generally polygamous. limy. Pingi-natchi. Tdiny. Naka-kora. 1 hi* specie* is generally found on oultivaUd lauds, growing amongst the different sorts 0! small or dry grain. Hoot film '] i hns sometimes near the liase resting ou the ground, and striking root; the re*t ev s, m ruth, a little compressed; from one to three feet high. Peace* 1. 285 MSiet'MiS.:, i ’ TT 'll '1 III i lllllllflWWIliririllTli T • .W- .W~';
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