10 DIDYNAMIA OYMNOSPERMIA. Plllomis. 



This plant lias a pleasant faint aromatic smell, its flowers 

 are used by the brahmins to decorate their idols. In the 

 Banksian herbarium, two other specific names are attached 

 to it, viz. obliqua and malabarica. 



3. P. esculenta. Roxh, 



-Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves lanceolar, serrate, downy ; 

 heads generally terminal or with one globular verticel at the 

 next pair of the leaves. Cali/.v obliquely ten-toothed. 



H'md. and Bcng. Choota-hull-koossa. 



7efing. Manchy tumi, or tumi-kura. 



This species is annual, it grows common on dry cultivated 

 land^:. Fbnvers during- the wet season. 



Stem annual, erect, ramous, four angled, four-grooved, 

 do^vny, from one to two feet high. Leaves opposite, short- 

 petioled, broad -lanceolate, serrate, downy, aboul two inches 

 long and three quarters of an inch broad. Verticels one or 

 two, many-Howered. fuvulucres very numerous, subulate, 

 ciliate. Caljfx obliquely ten-toothed. 



The plant [)ossesses a considerable degree of a peculiar 

 fragrance; its leaves are used as a potherb by the natives. 



4. P. cepha/ofes. Kc,n. Mss. 



Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 serrate, downy. IIea.\s terminal. Livolnciea lanceolate, ci- 

 liate. Calyx with (he mouth even, and cut into ten equal 

 divisions. 



llmd. and Beruj. B/na-hul-khwsa. 



Telmy. Gurosa-tumi. 



Like the former (P. escufenta,) but in other respects they 

 are dissimilar. Lpoip.s opposite, short petioled, oblong, point- 

 ed, serrale, soft, doM ny, nh' \\\ two inches long, and less than 

 one br'>a«l. Verticels gener.liy solitary, terminal, globular, 

 many-flowered. Fkirem numerous, white. Involucres nu- 

 merou . imbricat( , JMUcrolate, inrurved, cili ite. Cahfx erect, 

 gibbous, ten striated ; mouth horizontal, ten toothed. Corol 



