ON SELECT INDIAN PLANTS. 2JI 



a proof that its quality was known to them, as it 



probably was to their ancestors, from time imme- 

 morial. 



28. SEPTAPERNA,or seven-leaved : 



Syn. Visala-twach, SJradi, Vishama-cfthada. 



Vulg. Ctihitavani, Ctiha 'tiya'n> Ch'haton. 



Linn. School Echites. 



Ca l. Perianth five-parted, sub-acute, small, villous, 

 permanent; closing round the germ immediately 

 on the removal of the tube. 



Cor. One-petaled, funnel-form. Tube cylindric 

 below, prominent above, with inclosed anthers, 

 very villous in the throat. Border five-parted, 

 shorter than the tube : divisions inverse-egged, ob- 

 tuse, oblique, reflected, waved on the margin. 



Nectary, a circular undivided coronet, or rim, termi- 

 nating the tube, with a short erect villous edge. 



St am. Filaments five, cylindric very short in the 

 throat of the tube. Anthers heart-harrowed, cleft, 

 pointed, forming a star, visible through the mouth 

 of the tube, with points diverging. 



Pist. Germ above roundish-egged, very villous, 

 scarce extricable, from the calyx enclosing and 

 grasping it. Style cylindric, as long as the tube. 

 Stigma two-parted, with parts diverging, placed on 

 an irregular orblet. 



Per. Follicles two, linear, very long, one-valved. 



Seeds numerous, oblong, compressed with silky 

 pappus, pencilled at both ends. 



Note. 



