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It seems probable that the Sanskrit names are applied in 
ifferent parts of the country to more than one species of 
anscora. Rheede (Hort. Mal. «., t. 52), figures C. perfoliata 
with the Malayalim name of the Consfan-cieee from which the 
tanical name of the genus has been derived. The different 
ecies of Canscora are bitterish annual plants which grow in 
moist situations during, or immediately after the rainy season. 
‘They have pink, yellow or white flowers, and are of no medi- 
al importance. 
Description.—Stem about a foot high, perfectly erect 
Janda-utpala), four-sided, angles very sharp, or rather mem- 
ra ne-winged, smooth, ramous, branches always opposite 
-armed, in other respects like the stem; leaves opposite, 
ding, sessile, lanceolate, sharp-pointed, entire, smooth, 3- 
d, size various; flowers terminal and axillary, peduncled, 
: tetninal ones ‘Bites fold the axillary single, white; 
ncles 4-sided ; calyx large, 4-toothed, 4-sided, 4-winged ; 
ol funnel-shaped, border irregular, 3-parted, the two upper 
ments equal and orbicular, the lower one 2-parted, with a 
preates in the groove is lodged the fourth or large: 
; filaments four, inserted into the mouth of the tube, — 
Be stinost longer than the other three; style single; stigma Bs 
ft, segments recurved ; capsule one- -celled, many-seeded, _ 
Other plants belonging to this Order which are somthin. 
d medicinally are: the different species of Exacum, 
0 ngst which may be mentioned LH. tetragonum in Northern. 
-and E. bicolor in the Deccan Peninsula. 
rythroea Roxburghii has been recommended as a 
stitute for Chirctta ; it is a delicate little plant from 4 to 
inches high, appearing in cultivated ground after the rains. 
The root is small and fibrous, sparingly branched, the stem 
gular and winged; lower leaves obovate-oblong, 
those | onthe stem lincar-acuminate ; cymes dichotomous , 
ight pink, starlike; capsules oblong, mucronate, } of 
, dehiscing, 9-celled, covered by the long ' ey 
silyer-paper-like tube of the corolla. 
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