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466. SEBAA. R. Br. Tetrandria Monogynia. 
' Named in memory of Seba of Amsterdam; author of some Botanical 
Works. Browns Prodromus p.. 451, 
935. S. CarinaTa. Sprengel’s syst. 1. p. 426. Exacum carinatum, Rox. 
Flora. 1. p. 399. E. pedunculatum. Don’s. syst. 4. p, 212. Vahls Symbols 1. 
. 15. 3 
Pe Wild Indian Corn-flower.”’ An annual, erect-growing plant; stems slightly 
four—angled; leaves opposite, sessile, three nerved, oblong, lanceolate; 
flowers numerous; in terminal corymbs. They appear towards the close of 
the rains, are of a most lovely, lively lilac colour; exceedingly beautiful; 
and in the expressive language of Milton,—“ to the heart inspiring vernal 
delight and joy.” 
“‘ who can paint 
Like nature? can imagination boast 
Amid his gay creation, hues like these?” 
Thomson’s Spring. 
This is a flower, though native of a lower world, worthy of the garden of 
Paradise; and might put forth claims to be of the number of those, which ex- 
cited Eve’s affecting and womanly regrets, on being forced to quit that hap- 
py scene, 
‘¢ O flowers, 
That never will in other climate grow, 
My early visitation; and my last 
At even; which 1 bred up with tender hand 
From the first opening bud, and gave you names; 
Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank 
Your tribes, and water from th’ ambrosial fount? 
How shall [I part, and whither wander down 
Into a lower world, to this obscure 
And wild?” 
Paradise Lost. Book. 11. 
It grows abundantly on the pasture lands of the Concan between Panwell 
and Kandalla; also above the Ghauts.—Country about Belgaum. (Mr. Law.) 
The Gentiana chirata,—Wall. Asiat Pt, Rar. 3.¢. 252. native of Nepaul 
and the lower range of the Himalayas belongs to this tribe. It has not yet 
been discovered in Western India. Every member of the tribe possesses 
a bitter tonic principle, useful in medicine. 
ORDER $3. BIGNONIACE. Don’s. syst. 4, p. 214. 
The TRumPpET—FLower Trips, Lind. Nat. syst, p. 236. 
467. BIGNONIA. Linn. Didynamia Angiosperma. 
Named by Tournefort after the Abbe Bignon, Librarian to Louis IV. 
Gaert. ¢. 52. Lam. 526. 
936. B. Unpuvata. Rox. Flora. 3. p. 101. B. salicifolia. Hamilton’s Herb. 
Tecoma undulata. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 223. 
A tree, with drooping brauches like the weeping willow; leaves simple, 
opposite, linear lanceolate, waved; clothed with minute micaceous scales; 
flowers in lateral racemes, very large, orange coloured, scentless ;—appear 
in January and February, when few trees can present a nobler or more 
beautiful sight.— Pods linear, curved. 
In a garden at Dhoolea. ,Grows wild in considerable abundance, in one 
locality in Kandesh. (Mr, Boyd. C.S.)—The banks of the Lunass river, in 
Guzerat. (Mr. Vaupell.) 
This is a rare tree, and worthy of cultivation, for the sake ofits elegant 
foliage and showy flowers, ¢ 
