Flora indica Volume 3; or, Descriptions of Indian plants

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: ...twenty in the centre. 9. C. angustifolia. Roxb. Annual, erect. Leaves sessile, linear, entire, downy. Panicles terminal; flowers most numerous. This plant is annual, and I have only met with it in the Company's Botanic garden; it does not appear to be a native of Bengal. I rather suspect the seed to have been accidentally brought in boxes of earth, with other plants from the Audamans. Stem simple, erect, striated, somewhat scabrous, without branches till within a foot, or eighteen inches of the top, where there are several, forming a large oval pauicle, the whole height of the plant from four to eight feet. Leaves alternate, sessile; those of the stem most remotely serrate, and reflected; those of the branches entire; all are linear-lanceolate, or linearly-clavate, and covered with short hairs; size very various. In the axills there are always several small leaves. F/oncers most numerous, small, of a very pale yellow. Panicles, ihe whole top, or ramous part of the plant forms a single, large, diffuse one, of an oval form. Calyx hairy. Hermaphrodite florets about ten, or twelve, in the centre. The female ones numerous, in the circumference they are very minute and have the ligulate border three-toothed. It is from a plant of this genus, or a Baccharis, Dr. Buchanan informed me that the natives of the Andaman Islands make their twine for fishing lines; and as the bark of this is strong, and peels off in long stripes, it may be the same. 10. C. bifoliata. Willd. iii. 1920. Herbaceous, ascending, downy. Radical leaves short-petioled, the cauline ones sessile, all are serrated, dentate, and downy. Peduncle long, one-flowered, often with one or more leaf-like bractes near the middle. An annual, a native of dry land, about hedges and road sides. It flowers during ...