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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![proper perianth. Tithe of the corol with a half twist about the middle ; upper Up narrowest, ^,^8® linear, three-toothed ; fairer Up broad, oblong, emargiimte. Filaments shorter than the enrol, projecting along the under lip. Anthers red, two oil each tilament. Capsules four-seeded, two in each cell. SECT. III. Carols ringent. Anthers Jouhle. 18. J. Adhaloda. JiVld. 1. 96. Sub-arboreous. Leaves browl-lauceolar. Spites short, long-iieduncled; exterior bractes ovate, permanent. Carol ringent, upper, lip vaulted, and emarginate. Sans. Vidynmatri, Singhee, Vas/ka, Yrislni, L'turousha, Mngluishya, Vasooka, Vajtdan- t«kn. Bind, mul Beng. llakus, Vasooka. . *• This small tree or large shrub, is common over most parts of India. Flowering time the 1-7 i cold season Trunk straight, bark pretty smooth, ash-coloured. Branches sub-erect, with bark like ! that of the trunk, but smoother. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, broad-laneeolur, long, taper- pointed, smooth on bolli sides, about five or six inches long, and one and a half broad. Spikes from tbc exterior axills, solitary, loug-pednnclcd, tin* whole end of the hranehlet- forming a ! leafy panicle, flower-hearing portion short, and covered witli large bractes. Flowers opposite, . large, with small ferruginous dots ; the lower part of 1ml h lips streaked w itb purple. B> arte* ■ three-fold, opposite, one-flowered. Exterior one of the three, large, ovate, obscurely five- ' nerved- Interior j»ir, much smaller, end sub-lanceolate; all are permanent. Calyx live- ; purted to the base ; ilirisions nearly equal. Coral ringent. 7V9A short; throat ample ; vp- jper lip vaulted, emarginate; lower lip broad, and deeply three-parted; both streaked with purple. Filaments long, resting under the vault of the upper lip. Anthers twin. Ohs. The wood is soft, and esteemed Very tit for making charcoal for guu-jiowder. 19. J. decusata. H. Shrubby, erect; branches twiggy, villous, and decussated. Leaves from ovate to oblong. Flowers in opposite fasciculi on the h-ath-sx branch lets. Anthers double, all ea lea rate. A tall, stout shrubby plant, a native of tbc country above llangooil; and from thence i introduced into tbc Botanic garden, where it is iu flower during the mouth of February and March. Stem straight to the plant, ligneous ; in two years’ old plants as thick as a walking cane. Branches regularly decussate, straight, all the younger shoots villous, and as they shoot into 1 flower nearly leafless, /saves short-jietioled, ovate-oblong, entire, pretty smooth ; from three !• tto twelve inches long. Flowers iu numerous little, opposite fascicle*. of three to six, appear- 128 i Big suh-Vert ioclbxl, over the slcmlcr, leafless twigs, sub-sessile, pole ruse colour. Bractes numerous, slender, and very downy. Calyx five-parted ; segments ensifonn, villous. Carol ’ ringent ; tube gihlsms near the base; upper tip sub-la new date, concave, erect ; under lip ! broad and three billed. Filaments nearly as long as the up]H*r lip; ajax much enlarged. Anther,i two on each tilament, all with a calcarste base, (term oblong, sitting in a large, . glandular, yellow ring. Style the length of the stamens. Stigma simple. 20. J. Gendarussa.* Linn. tp. pi. ed. IT Hid. 1. 87. Shrubby, diffuse, smooth. Leaves narrow-lanceolar. Spikes terminal, sub-verticelled. . Lower anthers calcars I e. Yudu-kodi. Jtheetl, Mai. 9. p. 79. t. 42. (jeuilaruxsa. Humph. Arab. 1. p. 70. t. 28. Beng. .1 Mgaf-iiiadau. A bands.ime shrub. 1 have never met with it wild, lmt in gardens it is common, and i grows readily from slips and cuttings ; it is in flower during the wet seasons chiefly. I aui ! told it is indigenous ou the Malay Islands. Stem scarcely any. Brunches numerous, long, straggling, except when kept cut, they are then more erect. Bark oi the young parts generally dark purple, and very smooth ; in some varieties green. Leaves opposite*, short-jM*tioleti, lanceolar, obtuse, freipieutly a little *aOollojHsl, smooth ; nerve and veins dark purple, from three to six inches long, and from half an iucb to an inch broad. Spikes terminal, erect, verticclhxl. Anthers double, tbc lower ones have a spur like process projecting downwards and outwards. 21. .1. Bstonica. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. I. 96. Shrubby. datives sub ovate. Spikes terminal. Bractes white, with green veins. Corot ringent. Anthers two-lolaxl, the lower ealearute. Seeds turbercled, two iu each cell. ] Bern Curini. Rheed. Mai. 2. p. 33. t. 21. j ,'„j A perennial speeies ; a native of Coromandel. Flowering time the dry season chiefly, though it is more or less iu blossom all the year, particularly when in a cultivated state Stems several, while young, erect by age, leaning iu various directions, round, snooth, swelled above the joints, the height of tin* w hole plant from two to four feet. I.enns op- posite, petioled, nearly ovate, entire, or slightly waved, smooth on both sides ; from on.- to six inches long. Spikes terminal, second, sub-eyliinlrie, erect. Bractes of the raehis opposite, ovate-oblong, villous, white with green veins, the posterior one always abortive ; those of the flowers opposite and resembling those of tin* raehis hut narrower. Flowers pretty large, wooi t- if uidJun l'-u t*ils aalne. Lumaais wrote it Uuudaruana, which is nearer the tiuth. 'Xlie](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120024_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
