Verbesma. polygamia superflua. 441 



serrate. Flowers terminal, three-fold ; the middle one often 

 sessile. Calyx many-leaved. 



Vallia-manga-mari. Rheed. Mai, x. t. 40. 



A native of various parts of India. It flowers in the cold 

 season. • / 



3. V. scandens. Roub. 



Perennial, scandent. Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate, 

 serrate, three-nerved. JFloivers 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 three- flowered, white, that of the centre has 

 only one. Flowers pretty large, of a bright yellow. Florets^ 

 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 

 cAo/f wedge- formed, concave, hairy. 



This plant, like the last, has no smell ; but tastes slightly 

 terebinthaceous. 



4. V. sativa. Roxb. 



Annual, erect, hispid. Leaves opposite, stem-clasping, 

 cordate-lanceolate, serrate. Flowers terminal, long-pedun- 

 cled, two or three-fold. 



Karauidoo 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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