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aromatic scent of the* gold-coloured Champa c 9 is 

 thought offensive to the bees, who are never seen on 

 its blossoms ; but their elegant appearance on the 

 black hair of the Indian women is mentioned by 

 Rumphfjs; and both facts have supplied the San- 

 scrit poets with elegant allusions. Of the wild Cham* 

 facy the leaves are lanced, or lance-oblong; the 

 three leaflets of the calyx green, oval, concave ; 

 the petals constantly six, cream-coloured, fleshy, con- 

 cave, with little scent ; the three exterior inverse- 

 egged ; the three interior more narrow, shorter point- 

 ed, converging ; the anthers clubbed, closely set round 

 the base of the imbricated germs, and with them 

 forming a cone; the stigmas minute, jagged. 



Both Mr. Marsden and Rumphius mention 

 the blue Champac as a rare flower highly prized in Su- 

 matra and Java ; but I should have suspected that 

 they meant the Kjempferia Bhuchampac, if the 

 Dutch naturalist had not asserted that the plant 

 which bore it was a tree resembling the Champ aca 

 with yellow blossoms : he probably never had seen 

 it ; and the Brdhmens of this province insist, that it 

 flower* only in paradise. 



51. De'vada'ru : 



Syn. Sacrapddapa, Taiibhadraca ; Bhadraddru, „ 



Duhcilima, Piladdru, Darn, Puticdshfha. 

 Vulg. Devadar. 

 Linn. Most lofty Unona. 



52. Parna'sa : 



Syn. Tulasi ', Cat liinjara> Cufhiraca\ Vrinda. 

 Vulg. Tulos), Tuku 



U 4 Linn. 



