OH SELECT INDIAN PLANTS. 2,6$ 



hent. Divisions egged, erect, pointed, very villous. 



Cor. One-petaled. Tube very short. Border five- 

 parted. Divisions oblong, pointed, expanding, 

 villous. 



St am. Filaments five, most short in the mouth of 

 the tube. Anthers oblong, furrowed, converging, 

 nearly coalescent, with two large pores gaping 

 above. 



Pi st. Germ roundish, villous. Style thread-form, 

 much longer than the stamens* Stigma obtuse- 

 headed. 



Per. Berry roundish, dotted above, hoary, divided 

 into cells by a fleshy receptacle y with two or three 



wings. 



Seeds very many, roundish, compressed, nestling* 

 Leaves alternate, egg-oblong, pointed, rather 

 wavy on the margin, delicately fringed with down ; 

 darker and very soft above, paler below, with pro- 

 tuberant veins, downy on both sides, mostly de- 

 current on the long hoary petiols. 

 Stem shrubby, scabrous with tubercles, unarmed. 

 flowers umbel-fascicled. Carols white. Anthers 

 yellow. Peduncles and pedicels hoary with de- 

 ciduous frost. 



This plant is believed to contain a quantity of 

 lavana, or salt y which makes it useful as a manure ; 

 but the single word Bhantdca, vulgarly Bhani, 

 means the Clerodendrum 9 which (without being unfor- 

 tunate) beautifies our Indian fields and hedges with 

 .its very black berry in the center of a bright red 

 expanding permanent calyx. The charming little 



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