410 SYNGKNESI A AKQUAMS. SpUunthnS. 



Sans. Kooswinblm. 



Beng. Koosuin. 



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. Schreh. gen. N. 1266. 

 Common calyx erect, with leaflets numerous, sub-equal, 

 oblong, the two exterior longer. Pappus of two bristles. 



1. S. Amelia. Willd. iii. 1713. 



Annual. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, serrate. Pedun- 

 cles long, one-flowered, florets equal. 



ABC daria. Rumpli. Amh. vi. /. 65. 



Teling. Marata-tiga. 



Verbisina Amelia. Linn. Sp. ii. 1271. 



Annual, a native of shady places. It flowers during the 

 cold season. 



Stem 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, 

 Avith 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. F/otcers yellow, conical. 

 Calyx, the leaflets ciliate. Carol, 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 compressed, and two-horned. Chaff boat-formed. 



2. S. oleracea. Willd. iii. 1715. 



Annual, ramous. Leaves oval, grossly serrate. 



