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1. G. verticillata. Linn, siippl. 174. 



Root creeping^, perennial. Stems simple, erect, four- 

 sided. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, three-nerved. Flowers 

 verticilled ; corols five-cleft, funnel-shaped, with five 

 glands below the filaments. 



Exacum liy ssopifoUuni. Willd. 1. 640. 



Tcling. Nella-gullie. 



A small, erect plant, with an annual stem, and perennial 

 roots ; a native of moist uncultivated grounds. It flowers 

 during the wet season. 



Root perennial, creeping, filiform. Stems herbaceous, 

 simple, erect, from six to twelve inches high, four-sided, 

 jointed. ieaj;es opposite approximated, cross armed, ses- 

 sile, lanceolate, three-nerved, smooth, entire, one and a 

 half or two inches long, by half an inch broad. Flowers 

 axillary, sessile, generally three-fold, vertical-like, small, 

 white. Corol funnel-form. Nectary, a swelled gland at 

 the insertion of each filament. Filaments short. Anthers 

 within the tube. Style single, length of the filaments. 

 Stigma large, two-lobed. 



2. G. cherayta. R. Fleming in Asiat. 11. p. 167. 

 Herbaceous, straight. Leaves stem-clasping, lanceolate, 



three or five-nerved. Flowers terminal. Corol rotate, four- 

 cleft, tetrandrous. Capsules ovate, bifurcate. 



Sans. Chirsita-tikta, Chzrataka, &c. 



Beng. Chirata. 



Calamus aromaticus of the Ancients. 



This famous plant is said to be found on the mountains 

 of Nepal, and the Morungs. 



Root ramous, and probably perennial. Stems single, 

 straight, round, smooth, jointed, above ramous ; branches 

 generally decussated, nearly erect, with their extremities 

 somewhat angular ; the whole height of the plant about 

 three feet. Leaves opposite, stem-clasping, lanceolate, 

 very acute, entire, smooth, three or five-nerved ; size va- 



