2,6o BOTAKICAL OBSERVATIONS 



Pist. Germ egged, very small ; at first, when cleared 

 of the nectary, smooth; but assuming as it swells, 

 five -angles. Style columnar, as long as the stamens. 

 Stigma five-parted, slender. 

 Per. none, unless we give that name to the five- 

 angled coat of the seed. 

 Seed one, oblong, obscurely five-sided, inclosed in 



a ccat. 

 Racemas viscid leafy. Calyx light green. Corol milk- 

 white. Anthers purple, seen through the pellucid 

 tube. Leaves alternate, egged, smooth, pointed, 

 half sheathing, partly waved, partly entire ; floral- 

 leaves similar, minute. Stem flexible (climbing) 

 many-angled, jointed at the rise of the leaves. 

 Root caustic ; whence the name Vahni, and the like. 

 Chitraca means attracting the mind-, and any of the 

 Indian names would be preferable to Plumbago, or 

 Leadivort. The species here described, seems most 

 to resemble that of Sedan ; the rosy Plumbago is 

 less common here : the joints of its stems are red ; 

 the bracts three'd, egged, equal pointed, coloured. 

 20. Ca'malata': 



Syk. S'.ryd-cdnti or Sunshine ', u f H. M. t. 60. 

 V u l g . Cam • latd y Ishk-plchah. 

 Linn. Ipomoea Qiiamoclit. 



The plant before us is the most beautiful of its or- 

 der, both in the colouf and form of its leaves and 

 flowers; its elegant blossoms are celestial rosy red, 

 love's proper hue, and have justly procured it the name 

 of Cthnalatd, or Love's Creeper; from which I 

 should have thought Qiiamoclit a corruption, if 

 there were not some reason to suppose it an Ameri- 

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