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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    Page Carey Ed. SECT. II. Spifo's paired. 10. P. eonjtigatwn. R. Spikes conjugate, second. Flowers solitary, sessile, awnless. Corol, with au accessary neuter valve. . , , ,. .. .. A slender, soft, villous, half creeping species; a native of Coromandel. It differs from P. distachgon in the liuiulior of the spikes being constantly two, anil the flowers always soli- tary and sessile. To these marks ot distinction may l>e added that the valves of the calyx are’three-nerved, and the accessary one particularly large. ] ] |> gqxiarrosutH. Linn. sp. pi, rtf. 11 illtl. i. 315. Refz. Ohs. i\. 15. and v. t. 1. Culms creeping, from ten to twenty inches long. Spites paired, horizontal, raehis arti- culate ; dowers in a fascicle on the upper end of each joint of the raehis. CVnehroa muricatns. J£nf. 302. P. dim idia turn. Bnrm. Inti. 25. t. H.f. 2. A native of dry sandy ground near the sea. Culms branchy, creeping, with their flower-bearing extremities sub-erect; from ten to twenty inches long. Leaves short, but rather brood, and covered with soft hair; shtalh large, downy, involving most of the culms. Spites two, terminal, spreading, horizontal, or ascend- ing like a jiciir of horns, seen ml. Raehis composed of from tout to eight, oblong joints, di- vidisl hv a waved ridge; on each side of the riilire membranaceous. Flowers collected in ses- sile bundles of from four to eight, alternately disposed on the upper end of each joint. Calyx, the exterior <me minute, and lanceolate; the second large, embracing loosely the corol, point- cd, nnd striated; the inner one nearly as small as tie exterior, tapering from the l>ase to a fine point, three-nerved; margins fringed, of a chatfy texture. Corol to. in the genus, and rather longer than the inner glume of the calyx, here is a third neutral membranaceous valve, as in many species of this genus. I. 289 SECT. III. Spiles fascicled. 12. P. Dactyl on. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Il'iHJ. i. 312. Smooth, creeping. Spites digitate, sceuial, corol gibbous on one side, nnd twice as long : as the calyces. Agrostis linearis. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 375. Retz. Ohs. iv. N. 51. Sir W. Jones. Asia/. Res. iv. p. 218. Sans. Doorvu, Sh»t«p«rv(ka, Sahusrwveeiya, Hlmrgtfvee, Onrooha, £7n«nta. Beng. Doorba. Te/ing. Ghericlm. Tam. Arugam-pilla. This is by far the most common and useful grass in India. It grows every where abun- dant Iv. and flowers ail the year. Root creeping. Culms creeping, with their flower-hearing hranchlets erect, from six to (twelve inches high, smooth. Leaves -mull, and smooth. Spiles from three to five, terminal, sessile, filiform, expanding, secuud, from one to two incite- long. Raehis waved. Flotxers alternate, single, disposed in two rows on the underside. Calyx much smaller than the corol. ’Carol, the large or exterior valve biut-shapcd, keel slightly eiliute. Stigmas villous, purple. Ohs. This most valuable grass forms three-fourths of the food of our horses and cows in India. It is bf the brahmans of the coasts held sacred to Guneshu, (the Janus of the ancients,) under the name of D<wrwall. 13. P. aryyp/iorum. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 313. Creeping at the base. Spites from four to eight ; eorymhed. smooth. Flowers paired J_ *u unequal pedicels; accessary valve of the calyx minute or wanting, the other two very un- 290 wxjual, nerved, and ciliate on the margins only. Ohs. I- rather a searee grass in India, and grows in tufts. Cattle do not soetu fond of it, whereas all are fond of iMetylou. I t. I*. ciTiare. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 341. Culms creeping at the base. Spites snh-digitute. Flowers paired, one sessile, the other iicelled; inner two valves of the calyces equally long, and bearded with four woolly ridge's; third minute. Hind. Alakar-jalee. Telisg. ShangaU-gaddt. It delights most in newly laid down posture ground. Culms creeping, with one or two feet of the extremities erect, these rnmons, round and THo itli. Leaves sheathing, short for the size of the grass; margins eiliate near the base; heaths sometime- a little hairy, shorter than the joints of the culm, their mouths rise above he insertion of the leaf, stipule-like, as in l>r. Smith's Erharta calycina, hut here it is entire. yokes or rather spiked-racemes, from four to ten, digitate, expanding, secuud. Flowers pains I, no sessile, one jHslunelod. Raehis three-sided, waved. Calyx, exterior valve most nti- utc. Inlet-tor two, many-nerved, four of the nerves are clothed with very long, white, soft 1 utirs. . ^niall plants on a pmir soil, liave much the ajrpearaneo of Agrostis radiata. Cat- I le are very fond of this grass. 3 5. 1*. JUiforme. Linn. sp. pi. td. Willd. i. 343. Creeping, filiform, smooth. Spites, from two to four, sub-digitate, filiform, secund;
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