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CINCHONA EXCELSA. 



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A native of the mountainous parts of the Circars, but chiefly* of 

 the vallies, where it grows to a very large tree. Flowers during the 

 rainy season. Seeds ripe in four or five months after. 



One fresh leaf infused in water for a night, imparted little taste 

 to the water, though a chalybeate, when added, struck quickly a 

 deep purplish blue. The two inner coats of the bark possess both 

 the bitterness and astringency of Peruvian bark, and, I think, 

 when fresh, in a stronger degree: the bitterness, however, is not so 

 quickly perceived by the taste on chewing, as that of the Peruvian 

 bark, but is much more durable, and chiefly about the upper side 

 of the fauces. The outer light spongy lamina is tasteless. 



The wood is firm, close grained, of a Dale mahoeranv colour. 



107. 



TRADESCANTIA AXILLARIS 



Linn. Mant. 321. 



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Commelina axillaris. Linn. spec, plant. 6 1 . 

 Golla-gundy of the Telingas. 



Root fibrous, annual. 



Stem in young plants is erect, but in the old, procumbent, and ap- 

 pears like one of the many long creeping branches that issue 

 from its base ; all are round, smooth, jointed, often colour'd. 



Leaves alternate, sheathing, half-lanced, spreading, striated : mouth 



of the sheaths fringed. 



Flowers axillary, two or three, but in succession, so that there is 



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never more than one expanded at a time ; they are pretty 

 large, and of a deep, beautiful blue-purple colour. 

 Calyx membranous, three-parted. 



Corol one-petal'd, funnel-form: tube cylindric, twice as long as the 



calyx ; segments three, hearted. 



Filaments six, length of the corol, and inserted into its tube near its 



base, towards the apex swelled into an oblong, pellucid body, 



and a little below surrounded with beautiful, jointed hairs. 



Antk 



ters incum 



bent. 



Germ above, three-sided. 



Style length of the stamens, and near the apex, swelled like the 



filaments. 



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A native of moist pasture ground, and bord 

 Appears and flowers during the wet and cold s 

 Cattle are verv fond of it. 



paddy fields 



108. 



TRADESCANTIA TUBEROSA. 



tub 



Stems several, creeping, round, jointed ; from six to thirty inches 



long ; besides, a tuft of three or four liliaceous, sword-form 



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leaves issuing immediately from the heads of tuberous roots, 

 or rather their sheaths, form a head, from which issue the 

 roots and procumbent stems. 



Leaves of the stems linear-lanced, sheathing, striated, under side 



tinged with purple, downy. 

 Spikes terminal, or from the exterior axills, one, or two together, 



peduncled, beautifully imbricated, as in Tradescantia cristata, 



with two rows, of falcate, ciliate bractes. 



Trad 



blue-purpl 



A native of moist vallies 



109. 



TRADESCANTIA PANICULATA 



Conda Amadicada of the Telingas 



Root fibrous, annual. 



Stems creeping, with their extremities erect, jointed, smooth. 



Leaves lanced, sheathing ; mouth of the sheath woolly. 



Panicle terminal, globular, many-flower'd, hairy. 

 Flowers small, blue. 

 Calyx three-leaved, hairy. 



Corol three-parted : the superior two divisions large and egg'd, the 



third lanced. 

 Filaments simple, inserted round the germ, as long as the petals, 



without hairs or swelling. 



Is also a native of moist vallies. 



110. 



PONTEDERIA VAGINALIS 



Linn. Mant. 222. 



Neeroo Cancha of the Telingas. 



Root creeping^ with many fibres, perennial. 



Leaves radical, narrow-hearted, pointed, entire, smooth, glossy, 



from two to four inches long, and from one to two broad. 



Petiole sub-erect, tapering, fistulous, smooth ; six to twelve inches 



long ; those that bear a raceme, are swelled a little about the 

 middle, and there burst open (spath-like), lengthwise, near 



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the base ; those that do not bear flowers are enlarged into a 



sheath, which embraces the interior leaves. 

 Spath small, membranous, embracing the peduncle. 

 Raceme short-peduncled, after flowering time bowing, six to twelve 



flower'd. 

 Pedicels about three quarters of an inch long. 



Fl 



owers 



blue. 



and obi 



the three 



interior inverse egg'd. 

 Filaments ascending, inserted round the b 



ermost one is generally broad and tv 



bears the anthers, the other nothing ; the anth 

 it is blue, the rest are vellow. 



Germ above. 

 Style single. 

 Stigma glandulous. 



the rains. 



fresh water, or of marshy places ; flowers d 



The figure is rather smaller than nature. 



111. 



PONTEDERIA HAST ATA 



Linn. spec, plant. 412. 



Neroo Tamara of the Telingas. 



Root perennial, thick, spongy, creeping ; when long, a little wind 



ing, with many fibres issuing from every part. 



Leaves radical, those that bear the flowers are a little more elevated 



but in no other respect differing from the rest, broad-arrow 'd 

 or triangular, very entire, pointed, very smooth, and glossy 



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