. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 252 CLASSIFICATION Nat. Order 23. Verbenacece. — Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves opposite or whorled, simple or digitate, rarely pinnate. Flowers irregular. Sepals, petals, and stamens as in Acanthacece and Labiatce. Car- pels 2, connate in a superior 2- to 4-celled, 4-lobed, or entire ovary; style as in Acanthacece; ovules solitary or 2 in each cell. Fruit a drupe or berry, rarely capsular, 4-, 2-, or I-celled, cells i-seeded. Seeds erect, exalbuminous. Chiefly tropical. Common plants: sagoon or Teak (Tec- tona grandis), a tree 80 to 120 feet high, of firs
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 252 CLASSIFICATION Nat. Order 23. Verbenacece. — Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves opposite or whorled, simple or digitate, rarely pinnate. Flowers irregular. Sepals, petals, and stamens as in Acanthacece and Labiatce. Car- pels 2, connate in a superior 2- to 4-celled, 4-lobed, or entire ovary; style as in Acanthacece; ovules solitary or 2 in each cell. Fruit a drupe or berry, rarely capsular, 4-, 2-, or I-celled, cells i-seeded. Seeds erect, exalbuminous. Chiefly tropical. Common plants: sagoon or Teak (Tec- tona grandis), a tree 80 to 120 feet high, of first importance in India as affording one of the best and most durable timbers known, having flowers in dichotomous pan- icled cymes with 5 to 6 stamens, and fruit a drupe enclosed within a persistent calyx; ghentu or bhant (Clerodendron infortunaturn) (fig. 218), an erect shrub supposed to have the power of exorcising the evil spirit which presides over the disease known as itch (khosh); nishinde (Vitex Negundo), a common shrub or tree with trifoliate or quinate leaves-; gambhari (Gmelina arbored) (fig. 219), a timber tree of Orissa jungles 40 to 60 feet high; Lantana indica, a waste-land shrub having the evil repute of generat- ing malarious fever; Verbena officinalis, also a small. Fig. 218.—Ghentu or bhant (^CLerodendrO)L infoi'Utnaturn). 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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