Excerpt from Hand-Book of the Indian Flora, Vol. 2: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants Hitherto Described as Indigenous to the Continent of India Srnc. 0111111. Stem herbaceous, erect, branched, somewhat hoary with short hairs: leaves petioled, lower ones somewhat rounded, the rest obovate-oblong, somewhat toothed, ashy-white below corymb lax, dichotomous. Heads of flowers peduncled: scales of the involucre linear-lanceolate, acuminated, somewhat hairy out side: flowers small, light purple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.