Flora Indica: or Descriptions of Indian Plants. Edited by William Carey. Facsimile reprint of the first edition with an introduction by D. H. Nicolson. Two volumes

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832. Excerpt: ... CLASS V. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. HELIOTROPIUM. Schreb. gen. 2V. 239. Coro/salver-shaped; throat contracted with vaults. Seeds four, uaked, or each covered with its proper bark. 1. H. indicum. Willd. sp. i. 740. Annual, diffuse, ramous. Leaves petioled, cordate. Spikes leaf-opposed, peduncled, solitary. Fruit two-cleft. Bena patsja. Rheed. Mai. x. p. 95. t. 48. Sans. Shreehustinee, Bhooroondee. Beng. Hatti-soora. This is one of the most common plants in India, it is in flower at all seasons, and delights in out-of-the-way corners, rubbish, &c. where the soil is rich and dry. Stems and branches diffuse, dichotomous, hairy, general height one, or two feet, but spreading to an extent greater than its height. Leaves for the most part alternate, petioled, cordate, wrinkled, margins curled. Spikes leaf-opposed, generally solitary, peduncled, longer than the leaves. Flowers rigidly sessile, minute, in two rows on the upper side of the spikes. Corol longer than the calyx. Tube gibbous; border five-lobed, pale rose colour. Seeds united towards the base, two-cleft, smooth. 2. H. coromandelianum. Willd. sp. i. 742. Annual, ascending, pubescent. Leaves petioled, obovate, outire. Spikes paired, and solitary. Beng. Naga-phoollee. A native of Coromandel, Bengal, &c. Flowering time the hot and rainy seasons. Root simple, annual. Stems several, near the base spreading on the ground, afterwards ascending; clothed with white, soft hair. Leaves scattered, petioled, obovate, entire, hairy like the stems and branches. Spikes terminal, and interspersed among the leaves, generally paired. Flowers numerous, small, white, placed in a waved row on the upper side of the spikes. Calyx half the length of the corol, the exterior, inferior, divisions longer. 3. II. paniculatum. R. Erect, r...