410 SYNGENESIA AEQUALIS, Spilanthus, 
Sans. Koosumbha. 
Beng. Koosum. . 
Cultivated in many parts of India, during the cold season, 
not only for the use of the dyers, but for the oil obtained for 
the seed. 
SPILANTHUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1266. 
Common calyx erect, with leaflets numerous, sub-equal, 
oblong, the two exterior longer. Pappus of two bristles, 
1.8. Amella, Willd. iii, 1713. 
Annual. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, serrate. Pedun- 
cles long, one-flowered, florets equal. 
A BC daria, Rumph, Amb, vi. t. 65. 
‘Teling, Marata-tiga. 
Verbisina Amella. Linn. Sp. ii. 1271. 
Annual, a native of shady places. It flowers during the 
cold season. 
Siem in young plants conspicuous, and erect, in those more 
advanced there is not any, but several branches with their 
lower ends resting on the ground and rooting at the joints, 
with about a foot of their extermities erect, ramifications op- 
posite, or two-forked, with very long peduncled flowers in 
the cleft. Leaves opposite, petioled, the most general form is 
ovate, with the anterior margins very remotely, and grossly — 
serrate, smooth, from one to four inches long, and from three- 
fourths of an inch, to three inches broad. Peduncles solitary 
in the divisions of the branches. Flowers yellow, conical. 
Calyx, the leaflets ciliate, Corol, the tube of the lower florets 
has a bend outwards to fit the next within; border from four 
‘to five-cleft, Seeds of the margins three-cornered, of the cen- 
tre Hem are and two-horned. — boat-formed. 
2: By oleriotti Willd. iti, W715. aes 
Annual, ramous. - Leaves oval, grossly serrate. 
