"66 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



The characters as in Linnjeus, with a few variations* 

 Calyx incurved, Corol very shaggy within. Style 

 rwo-cleft, pubescent; divisions contorted. Stem 

 climbing, smooth. Leaves opposite, long-petioled; 

 the lower ones oblong, hearted ; the higher, egg- 

 oblong, veined, with a wavy margin. Panicles 

 axillary (except the highest) cross-armed. Flozvers 

 beautiful to the sight, crimson, with milk-white 

 edges, resembling the Dianthus, vulgarly called 

 Sweet William, but resembling it only in form and 

 colours ; almost scentless to those who are very 

 near it, but diffusing to a distance a rank odour 

 of carrion. All the peasants at Crislma-nagar 

 called this plant Somrdj ; but my own servants, and 

 a family of Brdhmens from Tribeni, gave that 

 name to a very different plant of the nineteenth 

 class, which I took, on a cursory inspection, for a 

 Prenanthes. 

 25. Sya'ma': 

 S\ r N. Gopi', Sa'riva', An&nta, Ltpalasa'riva, Go pa, 



Qopdlicdy Go'pavalh. 

 Vulg. Sydma'- la td 



Rheedej in Malabar letters, Puppdl-valli. 

 Cal. Perianth one-leaved, five-toothed, erect, mi- 

 nute, permanent. 

 Cor. One-petaled, salver -form. Tube itself cy- 

 lindric, but protuberant in the middle with the 

 germ and anthers; throat very villous. Border 

 live -parted; divisions very long, lance - linear, 

 spirally contorted, fringed, closed, concealing the 

 fructification. 



Stam. 



