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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![diandpia MONOOTOrA. Utricularia, Lycnpus. Page d uncles nxillary. Capsules linear-oblong. Ed5 (}; hfxopioide*. Ron. in Retz. Obs. 4. p. 8. Linn, xpec.pl. eel Reichh. i. 48. Appears I. with the former species (luring the rains. 142 16. G. Juncea. Corom. pi. 2. N. 129. Annual, erect, columnar, nearly naked. Lower leaves lanceolate, stem-clasping; above minute. The two pair of anthers not united. Capsules globular. Like the rest, this species delights in a wet situation, where it appears and flowers during the rams. ° Stem erect, almost simple, round, jointed, smooth, from six to twelve inches high. Leaves opposite, stem-clasping, lanceolate, obtuse, entire. Flora! leaves minute, triangular. Pedun- cles axillary, solitary, one-flowered. Flowers rose-coloured, small. Anthers twin, not united. Ihe sterile filaments in this species stand between the fertile ones, and are very small. Cap- sales globular. r 17. G. cuneifolia. R. Annual, erect, simple, nearly naked. Leaves one pair at the base, cuneiform, obtuse; above one or two minute pairs. Flowers solitary, long-peduncled. Capsules round. A native of wet places on the coast of Coromandel, and nearly allied to G. lobelioides, and juncea. 18. G lobelioides. Linn. sp. pi. eel. Wittd. 1. 104. Reiz. Ohs. 4. 7. Vahl. enum. 1. p. 92. Annual, on the lower part of the simple stem grew from two to four pair of approximate, lanceolate, entire, sessile leaves. Flowers toward the apex, remote, solitary, long-peduncled. Capsules round. A native of Coromandel, growing in wet places during the rainy season. UTRICULARIA. Schreb. gen. N. 41. Calyx two-leaved. Corol ringent, and generally calcarate. Capsule superior, one-celled. I. Seeds numerous. 143 1. U. stellaris. Trinn. sp.pl. ed. Willd. 1. 113. Floating, leafless. Scape with a verticil of bladders. Corol without a nectary. Telinff. Natsoo. Grows in sweet waters, appears and flowers during the rains. Root conferva-like, swimming in, and not on the water ; I have always found small utri- culi adhering to its filaments. Scape sub-erect, simple ; raceme above the verticil of bladders, which rest on the surface of the water. 2. U. fasciculata. R. Floating, leafless. Scapes naked; racemes four to eight-flowered. Ulricali sub-ovate, two-horned, scattered amongst the fibres of the root. Nectary horn-slmped, ascending to the edge of the under lip. Capsules beaked, drooping. Teling. Natsoo. It cup. .laujee. Found swimming in stagnant water in the vicinity of Calcutta, at the end of the cold, and beginning of the hot seasons. Stem jointed, length various, but often extending some feet. Radicles most numerous, in alternate fascicles, multitkl, filiform, armed with minute, acute bristles pointing forward. Utriculi scattered, semi-ovate, dotted, becoming black by age, with two horns from the mouth. Scape erect, from four to eight inches high, bearing generally from four to eight, alternate, large, yellow, pedicellcd flowers, /trades ovate, obtuse, one-flowered. Calyx of two large, ]> rmanent leaflets. Ctrrol as in the genus. Nectary born-slmped, blunt, nearly as long as the under lip, and bending up to its margins. Capsules conical,1 pointed, reflected. 3. U. biflora. R. Floating, leafless. Scape naked, two-flowered. Utriculi ovate, with filaments from their I- apices. Nectary horn-shaped, ascending, as long as the under lip. Capsules globular, erect. 144 Beng. Chota-janjee. Found with the last described in stagnant water near Calcutta, during the same seasons. A much smaller plant. Root of a few, scarcely compound, filiform fibres, and some scattered, subulate nigrescent utriculi, with two or more filaments from their apices, or mouths. Scape about three inches high, filiform, naked, generally two-flowered. Ftotoers yellow, small. Calyx and corol as in the genus, with the faux closed, and a homed, ascending nectary us long us the under lip. Capsules globular, eregt. LYCOPUS. Schreb. gen. N. 44. Corol four-cleft, with one of tile divisions emarginate. Stamina distinct. Seeds four, refuse. 1. L. dianthera. Bitch. Annual, erect, four-sided. Leaves potioled, rhomb-ovate, serrate. Calyx bilabiate. A native of Nepal™ ; from thence I)r. Buchanan sent the seeds to this garden, (in 1802,) where the plants thrive during the cold season, and blossom in March and April. Stems annual, straight, four-sided; sides slightly grooved; angles somewhat hairy. Branches axillary, decussate, four-sided, &c. like the stem ; height of the whole plant from one to two feet. * Leaves opposite, petioled, declined, rhomb-ovate ; anterior margins serrate, dotted with minute, darker green glands underneath, general length about one iueh, or less.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120024_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
