* 
= “appet fu 
H E D 
pairs.”’—Natite of Guinea. Root woody, perennial. Sem 
~feveral, ftraight, round, fmooth, panicled in their upper 
part, with forked branches. Looe Bin near, very narrow. 
Flowers in pairs at the fides of the branches, without leaves ; 
their fralk s unequal. Corolla flender, funne!-fhaped. Ca ap- 
fis le globofe.—Such is Willdenow’s - ‘defcription of this fpe- 
cies, wah which we are wea pate It appears to be 
nearly related to the laft, but the perennial root, numerous 
ftems, and u nequal owes, without leaves, are ex- 
preflive of a real differen 
H. corymbofa. ‘Eadiarek. Tlluftr. ae ’ Oldenlandia 
corymbofa ; ibid. t. 61. Linn. Sn Ft. 0: _ 
hy ffopifolia ; 3 Plum. le. 206. ti212. £.-3, ask Pid. t. 
—Leaves linear lanceolate “To werstal 
at 
Banda, gathered by the late Mr. Chrifte pher Smith. Lin- 
nus cultivated it in the Upfal garden, a Miller at Chelfea. 
‘The root is faid to be annual, but in our Banda fj 
is woo 
fmooth, eee in 1 fom 
ves about an inch long, lanceolate, narrow, 
—- “seme oe ever quite fmooth, fometimes confiderably 
ek on their upper fide, pale beneath; their bafe tapering 
into a fhortifh dilated — united on each fons with the 
In natural affinity this feels 
r to biffora perhaps than to herbacea, though its 
habit fheciblee the latter. __ - 
ie ae = Flowertalks axillary, 
ai Ot hiapen rough all over 
mouth.—Native of 
the Eat Toadies. Root taperi ring, cory Stems branched 
from the bafe, a foot or two. in height, {preading, round, 
or vv a a flightly angular, rough all over with minute pro- 
sf eres as are alfo the Sowers a ee fometimes the 
: Stipulas 
— about three long beifly central points. Flowersfialks | 
or two or three together at each pair 
Sa Pl. 174 Roxb. 
res eae sae =the, ‘fur fo folio 
rotphith ag 
, niobellat ate or corymbofe. 
Seige pS 
ad 
a half naked. —Native of the Eaft ‘Indies, in light ° 
ay. gro flo dea F in the’ latter part of 
fa, 
and ipening feed in January. “Reaburgh. 
The ebell is pale sot tt, funnel-fhaped, 
lata. Vctoarck: ‘Tihute. — (QMenlandia_o 
$94.71. 
: Boebes and Willdcsow: wil 
HED 
Root biennial, pati teene very long, fomévelant woody, 
ww — orange-c . Stems numerous, a {pa 
h branched froin the sefy bottom, {preading or “dite, ‘. é 
Be a cultivated more ere¢t, and about a foot high ; leafy,. 
round, all over rough with prominent pouns like the. latt 
Set: “Leaves REOAKO, fometimes three or four togee 
cym 
of ne fa lya nearly pare triangular, keeled, flrongly fring 
inferted about the middle-of the ripe fruit, whofe valy 
ject confiderably, sn aa not fo far as th 
are not fhev Dr. oe 8 tiles ak 
about twice’as 
long as the calyx, with a fpreading border.—Tbis is the 
ee valuable {pecies of a vhole genus, being the-Chay 
root, or Eaft Indian madder, much cultivated on the coalt 
of Re cciendel. though the wild | roots are better, when, 
they can be got. 
and tre eg? as conflituting a very 
we would itill call O/denlandia, and of whic 
{pecies, poflibly 0. Bag fa 0 of Willdenow ; ie the. Nela- 
Lheed. 
ae + Ve FT 
i Apargia, it 
this meafure. _ — of: thefe autho i © 
saosie, w vith ieee bra&eas. "Se the 5 
