. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. (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. \Tet!L{SweHta Chirata) herb with thc uppcr leaves (fig. 211) connate. Nat. Order 18. Boraginacece. — Herbs, shrubs, or trees,

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. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. (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. \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 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.

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