Flora indica, or, Descriptions of Indian plants : reprinted literatim from Carey's edition of 1832 / by the late William Roxborough.
- William Roxburgh
- Date:
- 1874
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![» to require any further description. 2. Z. zernmbet. Roseoe in Trati.t. (if Linn. Stir. viii. 318. Strum decimate. Leaven hiCarious, sessile, liincoolar. Spike long-peduncled, oval, com- pact, obtuse, tirades broad-obovate, obtuse, margins coloured. Lip tliree-lobcd. Ainonimn Zrmmbrt. Linn. up. pi. ret. IT Hid. 1. 6. Katon-lnschi-Kua. Rherd. Mat. 11. p. 27- tab. 13. Laiupujum. Rutnph. A mb. 5 />. 148. tab. til. fig. 1. Zitiriber spurium. Kbn. in Rrtz. Ohs. 3. 60. Ben'/. Butch, or mahabvrec-butch. Found wild in the woods about Calcutta. Flowering time the rainy season, tlie seeds ripen in November and December. Root biennial, tuberous, as in ginger, externally whitish ; internally pale yellow, and of a bitter aromatic taste. Stems annual, oblique, alxrnt three or four feet high, completely in- wstcd in the sheaths of the leuves. Leaves bifurious, sessile, broad-lanceolate, entire, smooth, waved ; veins numerous, slender, parallel ; deep-green above, pale underneath. Sheaths crown- ed with a large, broad, membranaceous, emarginate ligula. Peduncle solitary, a little removed from t he stems, erect, from twelve to twenty-four inches long, enveloped in imbricated sheaths. Spike* oval, obtuse, or with a round excavation on their ajiex, alsiut the size of a goose-egg. Bractcs (or scales of the spike) the exterior one-dowered, imbricated, broad-obovate, obtuse, with a broad membra nneeous bonier ; interior (or proper) solitary, one-floweml, enveloping the germ, perianth, and most of the tube of the enrol. Flowers large, ]>ale, of a sulphur colour. Calyx superior, one-leaved, sheathing the lower half of the tube of the corol. Corot ; exterior border three-i>arted, Ac. as in the genus ; interior or tip broad, with the lateral lobes thereof particularly large ; middle division two-parted ; they are ail beautifully curled, ami of a jade yel- low colour. Ifectarial filaments of Kb nip as iu the order. Filament scarcely any. Anther large, double, with its long, curved horn projecting over the lip. Stiyma funnel shaped, fringed with long, distinct hairs. 3. Z. Cassumunar. R. Straight. Learcs sessile, linear-lanceolate. Spikes radical, strobiliform, oblong, acute, Bractcs olaivatc, acuminate. Lip thre.-lobed. Sans. Yana Ardr*k«m. Hind, aud Beni/. Bun Ada, (wild ginger.) Teliity. Karpuslqxto, (small turmeric.) A native of Coromandel, Bengal, and Babur. Flowering time July aud August, seed ripe iu November ami Decern 1st. Rout perennial, tuberous, furnished with long, white, fleshy fibres, and jointed like ginger, but much larger ; when fresh of a deep yellow ; possessing a strong, not very agreeable, eam- phomceous smell, and warm, spicy, bitterish fast*-. Stmts annual, erect, round, from three to flve feet high, entirely enveloped in the imbricated sheaths of the leaves. Leaves bifurious, approximate, sessile on their sheaths, linear-la involute, deep green above ; villous, and paler underneath, where the nerve ulso is hairy like the sheaths ; from one to two feet long, and about three inches broad. Sheaths clothed with exceedingly pungent hairs on the outside ; their months ending in u stipulary process on each side of the insertion of the leaf. Scapes radical, from six to twelve inches long, invested iu several oblong, downy sheaths. Spikes oldong, strobiliform, compact, sharp-painted, closely imbricated with numerous obovate, hcu- inimite, greenish ferruginous (where exposed), villous bractcs. Flowers solitary, (tliat is, one to each b rue to of the spike, and blossoming in succession.) large, every part of a pale, uniform, sulphur odour. Calyx double ; the exterior smooth, spathiform, three-dentate one, may bo considered a bracte ! it is inserted round the base of the genu, which, as well as the inner, or proper perianth, it entirely euvolopes ; when forcibly expanded, oval. Inner or proper peri- anth, superior, one-leaved somewhat gibbous, membranaceous, three-toothed, on tlie outside divided nearly half way down. Corol ; tube slender, as long as the scale of the spike ; upper division of the exterior border boat-shaped, projecting over the stamen ; tinder, two narrow er and reflestsd under tlie lip. Lip thrce-lobed ; lateral lola-s obliquely obovate, erect ; middle lube nearly round, with the apex emarginate, and the border slightly curled. Stum. Anther ending iu a long, subulate, recurved beak. 4. Z. roseum. Roseoe in Trans, of Linn. Soc. 8. 318. Leaves shoi t-petiolcd, lanceolate. Spikes lax, half immersed in the earth. Bractes lan- ceolate, coloured. Lip entire. Amomuui roseum. Corum. pi. 2. „V. 126. Telin</. Bumacateliicay. Is a native of the northern Circars, where it flowers in the rainy season. Root biennial, horizontal, jointed, and white ; with many large tibres. Stems several, invested in the sheaths of the leaves, &c. as iu the other seitainiueous plants, about two or tlir»*c feet high, leaves included. Leaves somewhat pctiolcd, bifurious, lanceolate, acute, tend- ing to one side, smooth, finely veined, aliont twelve inches long, and from three to four broad. Spikes remote from the stems, just appearing above the ground when in flower, imbricated u ith lax, lanceolate, reddish, one-flowered bractcs. Flowers solitary, colour n mixture of red und yellow. Bractes. la-sides tlie exterior one already mentioned, there is an interior one for each flower between it and the meins, which is linear, with an obtuse, notched apex. Cah/x oue-leaved, tubular, above, membranaceous ; mouth toothed. Corot; tutu- eylindrie, erect considerably longer than the bractes. Border double; exterior three-parted ; in this plant the two approximated divisions are above, linear, pointed, aud recurved, sometimes revolute ; the 3 Page Carey ltd. I. 49 50 I. 51](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120024_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
