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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![slmrplv serrate ; serrntnros ending in a minute bristle. Racemes terminal. Flowers opposite, decussated, of a violet colour. Carol, &c. as in the last species. 9. G. racemosa. R. Annual, erect. Leaves sub-se-sile, linear-lanceolate, entire. Racemes terminal, hrachi- ate. Flowers long-pedicelled. Capsules linear, three or four times longer than the calyx. A native of cultivated land over various parts of India, apjieariiur in the rainy season. 10. G. oppositifoha. Linn. sp. pi. ed. II /fid. 1, 105. Corom. pi. -. A. 155. Annual, sub-erect. Lower leaves opposite to each other or to a one-flowered peduncle, lanceolate, serrate. Capsules linear. G. opposilifolia. Ret:. Ob*. I. t. A. 5. A native of moist pasture ground. Flowering in the wet season. Stems several, nearly erect, rauious, four-sided, smooth ; from three to six inches high. Leaves se—lie, opposite to each other, or a flower, linear-lanceolate, serrate, smooth. Pedun- cles leaf-opposed, or opposite to each other, short, horizontal, clubbed. Bracles solitary, em- hrneiog the insertion of the pduncle. Flowers small, bine. Anthers two pairs united. Sterile, filaments small, white. Capsules linear, twice the length of the calyx. 11. G. terrain. R- Annual, erect, four-sided, smooth. Lear** opposite, stem-clasping, oblong, smooth, most acntelv serrate. Racemes iu the division of the branches, and terminal, long-pc<luucled. Cap- sules linear, diverging. llenff. Bhoomi-nim. IVe-t sjaugti-piHpum. Rberd. Mai. 9. t. 59. is exceedingly like tills plant, though quoted by Linnatus for Ryellia antipndu, wliich 1 have never met with, if this Ik- not it. A native of Bengal, and in flower during the rains. Rout annual. Stem erect, four-sided, ruinous, smooth, from two to eight inches high. JjCtires opposite, sessile, or stem-claping, oblong, vefv obtuse, most acutely serrate; smooth on both sides. Racemes solitary, terminal, imd also from the divisions of the plant, on long, four-sided peduncles. Flowers opposite, short-pedicelled, verging, pink-coloured. Rracfet lanceolate, the lower pair of the racemes dentate. Cains' parted half way. Carol, upper lip small, incumbent. Capsules lanceolate, twice the length of the calyx. 12. 0. replans. R. Annual, creeping. Leaves opposite, from oblong to round, serrate. Racemes terminal. Sterile flhiments free. Capsule linear. A native of the Moluccas ; from thence introduced into the Botanic garden, where it blossoms during the rains. Stems and branches round, smooth, and creeping close to the earth, with short, (alsmt an inch long) Auriferous, erect shoots. Lea res opposite, sub-sessile, on the creeping shoots round, on the erect flower-lsiaring ones oblong, with nmnded ujiiees ; all serrate, and smooth on Imfh sides. Peduncles or racemes terminal, on the short, erect shoots bearing several, approximate pairs of short-pedicelled, opjiosite, large, pale bluish pink flowers. Bracles opjswite, one- flowered, ovate. Calyx five-leaved. Carol with an enlarged throat, and ringent border; up- per lip of one pale'Cohmred segment; under lip broad, deeper coloured, and three-]airted. Sterile filaments large, yellow, elavnte. witli the apices a little recurved, perfectly free. S/ipma of two, thin, broad, round lobes. Capsule linear, as long as the calyx, two-celled, two-vulvcd. 13. G. parcifio a. R. Corom. pi. A’. 203. Annual, erect, ruinous. Leaves sessile, ovate-oblong, three-nerved, serrate. Flowers lotig- podunelod. solitary, sterile filaments two-cleft. Capsules oblong. Stems erect, ruinous, four-sided ; with their angles acute, ahont six inches high. Lienees opposite, sessile, ovate-oblong. slightly serrate, acute, when large three-nerved. Flowers axil- lary, solitary, loug-peduncled, small. I have seen some plants with white flowers, and others with blue ones. Anthers twin. Sterile filament two-deft, each division headed. Capsules rather oblong, ]K)infced, longer than the calyx. I. 14. G. Alonnieria. Linn. sp. pi. ed. ICilld. 1. 102. I ll Annual, creeping. I^eares sessile, long, obovute, entire. Peduncles axillary, solitary, Otic-flowered. Calyx seven-leaved. Coral cuuqmuulate ; stamina four. Bruy. Adlin-hirui. Teliuy. Snmhniiw-ehittoo. A native of moist places, borders of brooks, <te. Flowering time the wet and cold seasons. Stems several, annual, rreeping. routid. jointed, very ruinous, smooth, succulent, f.f ares opposite, sessile, obovute, wwlge-sha|a*d, or oblong, smooth, entire, obtuse, fleshy, dotted with minute Peduuch* axillary, alternate, solitary, round, smooth, shorter tiian the leaves, one-tlowered. Flowers blue. Bracles two-nwlisl, pre-sing on tiie calyx latcndlv. Calyx five- h-lived, the exterior three leaflets large, oblong, the two interior small, linear, uli are concave, smooth, pointed and permanent. Carol campannlate ; border five-parted, nearly equal. Sta- mens as in Didynninia. Anthers two-cleft, at the lias-, blue. St it/nut large, somewhat two- lobed. Capsule ovate, two-ivlled, two-vulvcd. S-eds very numerous. (tbs. This plant certainly ought to la- placed iu the 14th class ; it has no one claim, that 1 can observe, to a place in this genus. The natives use the expressed juice mixed with Petroleum, to rub on parts affected with rheumatic pains. 15. G. hyssopioides. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Il'illd. 1. 101. Corom.pl. 2. A*. 128. Annual, erect. Leaves cnsiforui, stem-clasping, much shorter than the stem joints. Pc- Ed. I. 139 I. 140](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120024_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
