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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![fyilpin, Borrhanvia. DIAXPKTA MQKOC.YKIA. Racemes terminal. Bracfes opposite, lanceolate, one-flowered. Flowers pixlievlh-d. simill, '<ry Qar^y pal.- pink, almost white. Oily.r bilabiate; upper lipascending. tridentate; lower hp bipartite, Ed. ami defended with hair on the inside. Coro/; fa hr short, somewhat four-sided ; uppt' 1 >■ vision of the border broad an»l eumrginate ; laleral two of the same length. Imt nniiowii and semicircular; under one large, and nearly round. Filaments four, short, in the auglex o • the tube of the enrol. Anthers twin on the Ions filaments and tending to be soon the short- er ones, but very small, and abortive. Is nearly allied to Thymus. SALVIA. Sch/rcb. gen, N. 50. Corot irregular. Filaments two-forked ; anthers on the superior ones. Seeds naked. 1. S. Beuyalensis. K6n, MSS. Slirubbv. Leases linear-ovate, lanceolate, entire. Jlacemes vertieelled, verticils distinct, manv-rtower.xl. An anther to each division of the filaments. The natives on the Coromandel coast have no name for it. From Bengal it was intro- dared into the gardens on the const a few years ago, by Mr. Parsons; and is only found ill gardens, where it grows to be a large, straggling shrub. Trunk- seldom erect, woody, sometimes os thick ws a man’s arm. 1lark- cracked, and js-el- ing off in irregular pieces. Young shoots downy, round. Leapt* as in salria offiidnalis. Racemes terminal, often compound, vertieelled. Vert h i l* approximate, globular, nmiiy-ttnwer- ed. Floirers white. Calyx giblsius, downy, three or four-toothed. Carol, lvith lips re- curved, or -prowling. Stamens, there are sometimes three or even four filaments, with their extremities bifid, each division bearing an oval |>rnper anther. Ohs. Tbo leaves of this plant smell and taste considerably stronger, I think, thnn those of S. officinalis, and are applied to the same Uses. 2. S. brackiata. It, Animal, erect, hrachiute. Leans oblong, eremite, tomentose. Racemes vertieelled; rerti- cils six-flowered ; seeds elevated on a receptacle. Is a native of moist places, over various parts c,f India. Flowering time the cold season. *• Stem annual, cn-ct, rainous four-sided, fourgr.sived, downy; from one to two feet high. 1** Branches opposite, cross-armed, ascending. Leave* opposite, ]>etioled, running down on the jietioles, oblong, irregularly eremdnte, waved, rugose, a little downy; two or three inches long. Racemes terminal, long, vertieelled. Verticils six-flowered, six-braeted. Floirers small, pule purple. Stamens as in the genus, with the rudiments of two additional sterile filaments between the large pair. Germ elevated on a large fleshy receptacle. This plant is slightly aromatic, Jt. 8. fanala. R. Herbaceous, four-sided, villous. Leases sessile, ovate-oblong, entire, woody. Flower* ver- ticil late. Found by Colonel Ilardwieke on the most elevated mountain near Adwaanec, on the road from Hurd war to Sirinagur. It is his S. inlyrifolia. See Asiatic lie.'arches, rat. ti. p, A tit. Ohs. Salria rosea of V'alil, is the same as S. cnccinra, an American plant, which though in a manner naturalized here, has no right to a place in this Flora. B0BRI1AAVIA. Schreh. gm. X. 13. Calyx inferior, gihlsius, entire, permanent, and lieenniingati envelope for the seed. Germ fern-colled ; ovula single, erect, Coro/ canipanulate, inserted on the calyx. Seed solitary, Junhryo coudnplicate, with inferior radicle, and central -perisperm. 1. 11. procumbent. Herb. Ranks. Root fusiform, (H-rcimial. Branches procumbent, smooth. Is-ar/s variously cordate, cover- ed with a silver coloured pellielc underneath. Floirers terminal, in lottg-peduncled heads. Stamina three, San*. PoomrovTit, Shotaghnee. j# limy, (fudha-pooi-na, the red variety; and Shwetir-poorna, the white one. 117 lain (lama. Rhrrd. Mai. 7. p. I• >o. t, 5(1. gixsl for a young luxiiriunt plant. B. diandra, and erecta. Burnt. Flora. Jnd. p. A. t. 1. seem to be our plant, taken at different ages. It. ere, fa. Gtrrf. Carp. ii. 2f>0. t. 127. lliis species, whatever it may Is-, whether diffusa, erecta, repanda or tHandra, or all of them, is tin- only one I have yet found in India. It is not common every where, but is one ol the most troublesome weeds wo have. The long, fusiform, perennial roots, strike so deep, a- to render it no easy task to dig them up. It produces blossoms and ripe seed during tho whole year. Root perpendicular, fusiform, slender, perennial. Stem none; branches many, herbaceous, with alternate, hilarious, round, smooth, jointed, often coloured brunchlets spreading close on tlie ground, to an exteut of many feet in a good soil, lmt never striking root. Leaves op- po«tte, uneipuil in size, one of thel eaves licing alternately smaller in each pair; pctiohxi, various y loidat--, margins more or less scalloped, waved, and often coloured; sometimes acute, sometimesobtii.se; all are smooth above, and covered with a silver eohmn-d pellicle ntidi-nieath; size very various. Petioles shorter than the leaves, channelled. Peduncles solitary, from the miked swelled joints between the h aves, hut nearest to the small leaf. At the cuds ot the branches, where the joints approximate, they are so numerous as to form a 7](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120024_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
