Ageratum. SYNGENESIA AEQUALIS, 415 
Note. In 1810 found a plant with ten or twelve florets in 
the calyx. 
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2. E. fleruosum, Willd, iii, W761. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, broad- 
lanceolate, remotely and grossly serrate, triple-nerved, Co- 
rymbs terminal, ‘ 
A native of Flat Island near the Mauritius, where it was 
found by Colonel Hardwicke, in flower in May, who observes 
that the leaves are covered with a viscid juice and are used 
for green wounds as we use court plaster. The fresh flowers 
are highly aromatic, and the honey of Bourbon is ‘htrongty 
impregnated with the same flavour. 
3. E. asperum. R. 
Perennial, erect, harsh with short stiff hairs. Leaves al- 
ternate, sessile, cuneate-oblong, serrate, Flowers terminal, 
few but large. Calyx somewhat woolly, from twenty to 
thirty-flowered. 
-Anative of Bengal, and like most of the order, flowers and 
ripens its seed during the dry season. 
AGERATUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1273. 
Receptacle naked. Pappus five-awned. Calyx oblong, 
sub-equal. lorets four or five-cleft. 
1, A. cordifolinm, Roxb. 
Leaves opposite, cordate, serrate, hairy. Flowers wart 
umbelled. Florets five-cleft. — 
Beng. Oochunti. | 
An annual found in the vicinity of Calcutta during the 
rainy and cold seasons; flowering time the cold season. 
_ Stems erect, round, a little hairy. Branches opposite 5 3; 
height of the whole plant about two feet. - Leaves opposite, 
petioled, cordate, serrate, hairy ; size very various, the larger 
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