2,02 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



21. Cadamba : 

 Syn. Ntpa 9 Priyaca, Halipriya. 

 Vulg. Cadamb, Cadam. 

 Linn. Oriental JSauclea. 



To the botanical description of this plant I can add 

 nothing, except that 1 always observed a minute 

 five-parted calyx to each floret, and that the leaves 

 are oblong, acute, opposite, and transversely nerved. 

 It is one of the most elegant among Indian trees, 

 in the opinion of all who have seen it, and one of 

 the holiest among them in the opinion of the Hindus, 

 The Poet Ca'lida's alludes to it by the name of 

 Kipa ; and it may justly be celebrated among the 

 beauties of summer, when the multitude of aggregate 

 flowers, each consisting of a common receptacle* per- 

 fectly globular, and covered uniformly with gold-co- 

 loured florets, from which the white thread-form styles 

 conspicuously emerge, exhibits a rich and singular 

 appearance on the branchy trees decked with foliage 

 charmingly verdant. The flowers have an odour, 

 very agreeable in the open air, which the ancient 

 Indians compared to the scent of new wine; and 

 hence they call the plant Halypriya, or beloved by 

 Ha lin, that is, by the third Ra'ma, who was evi- 

 dently the Bacchus of India. 

 22. Gandi'ra : 



Syn. Samashfhila* Lavana-bhantdca. 

 Vulg. Lona-bhant; Ins; Salatiya. 

 Linn. Solanum. Is it the Ferbascum-leavtd ? 

 Cal. Perianth one-leaved, cup-form, or belled ? 



obscurely five-cleft, downy, pale, frosted, perma- 

 nent. 



