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QUISQUALIS INDICA. INDIAN QUISQUALIS. 



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Class and Order. 

 Decandria Monogtnia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. superus : tubo longissimo, 5-fido. Petala h, fauri 

 calycis inserta, marcescentia. Stam. 10. in duplici serie. 

 Drupa 5-angularis. 



Specific Name and Synonyms. 



Quisqualis indica. Sp. PI. 556. RumpL Amboyn. 5. p. 



71. t 38. Willd. Sp. PL 2. p. 579. Pcrsoon Sun. 



I. p.470. Lamarck III, t. 357. 

 Quisqualis glabra. Iform. /rcd /?. 104. t. 28. / 2. 

 Quisqualis pubescens. Burm, Ind. p. 104. t 35. / 2. 

 Udani Malayensibus. 



The smooth and pubescent varieties of Burman appear to 

 be the same. 



The fanciful name of Quis Qualis was given to this plant 

 by Rumphius, which has been since joined into one word. 

 The Malays call it Udani. The account which this author 

 gives of it is very curious ; the young plant, he observes, 

 grew up into an upright shrub, about three feet high, with 

 few and irregular branches, and scattered leaves without 

 order. After six months it put forth from the root a runner 

 much stouter than the principal stem of the first shrub, which, 

 climbed up the neighbouring trees, throwing cut branches, 

 twisted in and out in all directions, but not twining round 

 their supporters ; afte/ the appearance of this shoot the 

 original shrub ceased to grow and finally perished. Before it 

 divided into branches the leaves of the new shoot grew by 

 threes, one of which was always a little higher up than the 

 other two, and towards the top the leaves became more 

 distant, till they became solitary ; the leaves falling off the 



persistent 



