Verbesina, POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, 441 
serrate, lowers terminal, three-fold s the middle one often 
sessile. Calyx many-leaved, 
Vallia-manga-mari. Rheed, Mal. x. t. 40. 
A native of various parts of India. It flowers in the cold 
season. 
3. V. scandens, Roxb. 
Perennial, scandent, Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate, 
serrate, three-nerved. lowers terminal, tern, and solitary. 
Calyx double. Female florets eight. 
Beng. Bim-raj. : 
Is perennial, a native of hedges, uncultivated places, &c. 
about Calcutta. It flowers during the rainy and cold seasons. 
Stem long, straggling, or climbing, often as thick as the 
little finger, smooth. Branches opposite, somewhat four- 
sided. Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate, serrate, pointed, 
three-nerved, a little hairy, particularly the nerves, from two 
to four inches long. Petioles channelled, half the length of 
the leaves. Peduncles terminal, generally three-fold, erect, 
the lateral ones tbree-flowered, white, that of the centre has 
only one, Flowers pretty large, of a bright yellow. Fiorets, 
about twenty hermaphrodite ones, and eight or ten female 
ones with their apices two or three-toothed. Seeds turbinate, 
angular, scabrous. Receptacle chaffy, a little convex ; the 
chaff wedge-formed, concave, hairy. 
This plant, like the last, has no smell; but tastes slightly 
terebinthaceous, 
A.V. sativa, Roxb. © 
Annual, erect, hispid, Leaves opposite, stem-clasping, 
cordate-lanceolate, serrate, Flowers terminal, long-pedun- 
cled, two or three-fold. : ; 
Karamdoo of the inhabitants of the Mysore country, where 
the plant is cultivated in the fields for its seed, from which 
an oil is expressed, and used as a substitute for the common 
sesamum oil, It is also cultivated in the vicinity of Nagpore, 
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