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CLASSIFICATION 



(patari or pan-sheuli), very 

 common in our tanks, hav- 

 ing white or whitish-yellow 

 flowers with fringed corolla; 

 and chireta {Swertia Chirata) 

 (fig. 210), a shrub that grows 

 in the Himalayas and affords 

 the well-known medicinal 

 leaves known as chireta, 

 which, when steeped in water, 

 yield a bitter stomachic in- 

 fusion. There are a few di- 

 morphic species in this order. 

 Canscora diffusa is a com- 

 mon dichotomously-branched 

 Fig. 2io.-Ch\Tet!L{SweHta Chirata) herb with thc uppcr leaves 



(fig. 211) connate. 

 Nat. Order 18. Boraginacece. — Herbs, shrubs, or 

 trees, often hispid (rough). Leaves usually alternate, 



entire. Flowers 

 regular, usually in 

 scorpioid cymes. 

 Sepals connate in 

 an inferior calyx, 

 lobes 5, usually 

 imbricate. Petals 

 5, lobes 5, imbri- 

 cate. Stamens 4 

 to 6, epipetalous. 

 Carpels connate 

 in a superior 4- 

 lobed (fig. 212), 2- 

 to 4-celled ovary, 

 each cell i- to 

 2-ovuled. Style 



Figf. zii. — Canscora diffusa 

 c. Connate leat. 



