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Fam. 3. Filicina. 
— 4. Selaginea: Lycopodium etc. 
— 5. Muscoidea. dr 
— 6. Hepaticae: Jungermannia, Blasia. 
Ordo II. Glaucophylla. 
Fam. 1. Algoideae: Lichen, Tremella, Fucus. 
Ordo III. Aphylla. 
Fam. 1. Fungoidea. 
= 2. Byssina: Byssus, 
Confer va, Corallina. 
Flora in di e a; 
or descriptions of indian plants by the late W. Roxburgk, 
edited by W. Carey, to which are added descriptions of plants 
more recently discovered by N. Wallich, Superintendent of 
the hotanic garden, Calcutta. Vol. I. Serampore at the 
Mission press 1820. 8. 493. = 
Dieſe Flora iſt das ſchoͤnſte Monument, welches die 
Herausgeber dem thaͤtigen und kenntnißreichen Royburgh 
geſetzt haben. Er hat über 2000 Pflanzen aus dem oͤſtlichen 
Afien beſchrieben, welche Beſchreibungen wir in dieſem 
Werke nach und nach erhalten werden. Es iſt ganz eng⸗ 
liſch, enthält außer dert Character diejenigen Synonyme, 
worüber Roxburgh gewiß war, den Namen der Sanskrit⸗ 
Sprache und den bengaliſchen oder ſonſt einen indiſchen. 
Beſonders iſt auf Rheede und Rumph RNuͤckſicht genoms 
men. Darauf folgt eine ganz vollſtaͤndige, muſterhafte Be⸗ 
ſchreibung aller Pflanzentheike nebſt einer kurzen Angabe ih— 
res Nutzens. 
Dieſer Band enthält Claſſe I. bis IV., und zwar 
folgende Sippen. 
Monandria: Canna 1 Spc., Phrynium 6, He- 
dychium 5, Kaempferia 7, Curcuma 17, Amomum 
8, Zingiber 11, Costus 1, Alpinia 12, Globba 8, Sa- 
licornia 2. 8 
Diandria: Nyctanthes 1, JIasminum 20, Phyllirea 
2, Millingtonia 2, Olea 3, Chionanthus 4, Schrebe- 
ra ı, Eranthemum 7, Justicia 32, Gratiola ı8,UÜtrieu- 
laria 4, Lycopus 1, Salvia 5, Veronica ı, Boerhaavia 
1, Fraxinus 2, Ligustrum 1, Piper ı. 
Triandria: Valeriana 2, Olax 2, Loeflingia 1, 
Hippocratea 3; Johnia 2, Iris 1, Moraea 15 Comme- 
lina g; Sonerila 4, Xyris 1, Fuirena An Rillingia 4, 
Tunga 3, Schoenus 1, Cyperus 43, Scirpus 50, Pero- 
tis 1, Cenchrus 1, Saccharum 11, Anthistiria 7, An- 
dropogon 56, Paspalum 4, Lappago 1, Panicum 52, 
Phleum 1, Milium 5, Agrostis 5, Holcus 2, Ischae- 
mum 8, Apluda 2, Aira 1, Melica 4, Chloris 4, Pom- 
mereula i, Poa 20, Dackylis 2, Eleusine 6, Arundo 
3, Aristida 3, Manisuris 2, Aottboellia 8, Hordeum 
ı, Triticum 2. 
Mollugo 3, Houttuynia 1. 
Telrandria: Rhopala 4, Dipsacus 1, Hedyotis 7, 
. 
ame 
Spermacoce 14, Hydrophylax 1, Galium 3, Rubia a, 
Ixora ı8, Gardneria ı, Pvrostria ı, Salvadora 1, Cal- 
licarpa 10, Buddleia 2, Exacum 6, Pladera (Cansco- 
ra) 5, Mitrasacme 1, Plantago 5, Cissus 13, Cornus 
3, Samara 2, Blackburnia 1, Fagara 4, Ludwigia 2, 
Oldenlandia 8, Ammannia 6, Trapa 2, Pothos 10, 
Chloranthus 1, Elaeagnus 3, Cansjera 1, Santalum a, 
Gyrocarpus. 
Cuscuta 4, Coldenia 1. f 5 
Brucea 1, Myriophyllum 2, potamogeton 2, 
Ilex 15 1 1 11 
Muſter der Behandlung. 
HEDYCHIUM. Kön. 
Corolla with a long, slender tube; both borders 
three - parted; inner resupinate. Anther double, na- 
ked. Capsule three-celled, three - valved. Seeds nu- 
merous, arilled. Embryo simple, and furnished 
with both perisperm and vitellil. N 
1. H. coronarium, Linn. sp. pl. ed. Wild. i. p. 
10. König in Reiz. obs. 5. 73. 
Leaves lanceolate. Spikes compactly imbrica- 
ted; segments of the cleft lip of 'the corol semi - 
lunar. f 
Gandsulium. Rumpf. amb. 5. t. 69. F. 3. 
Goruk-nathha of the Bengalees, {also by them 
called Doolala-champa. 
A native of various parts of Bengal and the 
neigbouring provinces. Flowers during the rains; 
and the seeds ripen in the early part of the cool 
season. re 
Root horizontaal, perennial, round, fleshy, mar- 
ked with annular cicatrices, about as thick as a 
man's thumb, fleshy, with fibrous ramifications is- 
suing from the cicatrices; taste simply herbaceous. 
— Stems erect, 5-4 feet high, round, every where 
covered with the sheaths ſof the leaves. — Leaves 
sessile, alternate, bifarious, lanceolate, tapering to 
an evanescent point; above, a deep smooth green; 
below, striated, pale, and slightly covered with de- 
pressed, soft, white hairs; 9- 12 inches long, and 
about two broad. — Shealis smooth on both sides, 
striated, terminating in a ligulated process, (as in 
many of the grasses) which is often two-parted. — 
Spike terminal, solitary, erect, linear-oblons, about 
the size of the thumb, compactly imbricated with 
many large, oval, concave, green, common, perma- 
nent bractes. — Flawers large, pure White, “ very‘ 
fragrant, 2-4 to each common bracte, but seldom 
— 
„ A variety deeply tinged with Taue is ſound in some 
of the interior provinces; and another of a pale yellow 
colour: all are equally fragrant. 
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