254 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



Cor. One-petaled, funnel-form. Tuhe cyliridtlc* 

 very long, slender, somewhat curved. Border four- 

 parted ; divisions egged, acute, deflected. 

 St am. Filaments four, above the throat very short, 



incurved. Anthers oblong, depressed. 

 Pist. Germ roundish, oblate beneath. Style thread- 

 form, long as the tube. Stigma two-cleft, just 

 above the throat > divisions externally curved* 

 Per. 

 Seeds. 



Flowers bright crimson - scarlet, umbel - fascicled. 

 Leaves oval, cross-paired, half- stem-clasping ; 

 pointed, pale below, dark green above, leathery, 

 clothing the whole plant. Stipules between the 

 opposite leaves erect, linear. Stem russet, chan- 

 nelled. 



The Banduca Hover is often mentioned by the best 

 Indian poets; but the Pandits are strangely divided 

 in. opinion concerning the plant which the antients 

 knew by that name. Ra'dha'ca'nt brought me, 

 gs the famed Bandkuca, some flowers of the Doubtful 

 Papaver ; and his younger brother Rama'ca'n? 

 produced on the following day the Scarlet Ixora, 

 with a beautiful couplet, in which it is named Band- 

 huca: Soon after, Servo'ru showed me a book, in 

 which it is said to have the vulgar name Dcf hariy a, or 

 Meridian ; but by that Hindustani name the Musel- 

 mans in some districts mean the Scarlet Pen tap etes, 

 and, in others, the Scarlei Hibiscus, which the ffiw- 

 dus call Suryamani) or Gem of the Sun. The last-* 

 mentioned plant is the Sicsmin of Rheede, which 



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