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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. 1807 Excerpt: ...Common imbricated; leaflets six or eight, egged, acute, small, expanding, withering, containing generally from five to seven flowerets. Partial four-parted; divisions egged, expanded, villous. Cor. None, unless you assume the calyx. Stam. Filaments mostly four, (in some, three; in one, five) awled, fleshy, rather compressed, spreading over the divisions of the calyx, and adhering to them at the point. Anthers double, folded. The buds elastick, springing open on a touch. FEMALE. Cal. Four-parted; divisions egged, concave, pointed, permanent, propped by two small bratls; unless you call them the calyx. Cor. None; unless you give the calyx that name. Pis r. Germ roundish. Style very short, cylindrick. Stigma long, two-parted, permanent. Per. Berry one-seeded, navelled, smooth, somewhat flattened. Seed globular, arilled. Leaves various, some inverse-egged, some oblong, some oval, pointed, irregularly notched, alternate (some opposite), crowded, crisp, very rough veined, and paler beneath, smoother and dark above. Berry, deep yellow. The Pandits having only observed the male plant, insist that it bears no fruit. Female flowers axillary, from one to four or five ia an axil. 68. Virana: Syn. Viratara. Vulg. Bend, Gdnddr, Cat a. Retz. Muricated Andropogon. Roxb. Aromatick Andropogon. The root of this useful plant, which Ca'liDa's calls us'tra, has nine other names thus arranged in a Sanscrit verse: Abhaya, Nalada, Sevya, Amrindla, J'aids'aya, Ldmajjaca, Laghulaya, Avaddha, IJhtacdpat' ha. It will be sufficient to remark, that Jaldfaya means aquatick, and that Avaddha implies a power of allaying feverish heat; for which purpose the root was brought by Gautami' to her pupil Sacontai/a: the slender fibres of it, which we know here by the name of Chas or Khajkhas, are ...
