146 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, — Boerhaavia. 
Stem annual, erect, ramous, four-sided, four-grooved, dow- 
ny; from one to two feet high. Branches opposite, cross- 
armed, ascending. Leaves opposite, petioled, running down 
on the petioles, oblong, irregularly crenulate, waved, rugose, 
a little downy ; two or three inches long. Racemes terminal, 
long, verticélled. Verticils six-flowered, six-bracted, Flow- 
ers small, pale purple. Stamens as in the genus, with the 
rudiments of two additional sterile filaments between the 
large pair. Germ elevated on a large fleshy receptacle. 
This plant is slightly aromatic, 
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“8. S. lanata. R. 
Herbaceous, four-sided, villous, - Leaves sessile, ovate-ob- 
long, entire, woody. Flowers verticillate. 
Found by Colonel Hardwicke on the most elevated moun- 
tain near Adwaanee, on the road from Hurdwar to Sirinagur. 
Tt is his S. integrifoha, See Asiatic Researches, vol, 6. 
p. 349. 
Obs. Salvia rosea of Vahl, is the same as S, coccinea, an 
American plant, which though in a manner naturalized here, _ 
"has no right to a place in this Flora. 
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BOERHAAVIA. Schreb. gen. N. 13. 
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Calyzx inferior, gibbous, entire, permanent, and becoming | 
an enyelope for the seed. Germ one-celled; ovula single, 
erect. Corel campanulate, inserted on the ae Seed S0-_ 
litary. Embryo conduplicate, with inferior radicle, and cen- 
tral perisperm. 
1. B. procumbens. Herb. Banks. __ . 
Root fusiform, perennial. jE as procumbent, smooth, | 
Leaves variously cordate, covered with a silver coloured. 
pellicle underneath, Flowers terminal, in long-peduncled_ - 
heads, Stamina three, . 
Sans, Poonurnuva, Shoteghnee, 
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