membrane, to the angles.of which the roots, branches, 
and leaves may be easily traced, and on the inside of 
which there is a fascicle of spiral vessels. Branches simple. 
Leaves one and a half inch long, gradually smaller upwards, 
very numerous, verticillate, four in the whorls towards the 
top of the stem, often five or six below, (ten according to 
Don,) oblongo-linear, sparingly and distantly serrated in the 
upper half, rarely more than two serratures on each side, 
spreading, veinless, flat, slightly channelled above, keeled 
below, and having minute dots on both sides. Inflores- 
cence a terminal, dense, whorled, cylindrical spike (on the 
leading shoot three-fourths of an inch long, on the others 
shorter,) much thicker than the top of the stem. Bractee, 
one at the base of each flower, ovato-lanceolate, hairy and 
strongly ciliated, concave, connivent at the points, and as 
long as the calyx. Calyx ovate, inflated, four-cleft, seg- 
ments equal, connivent, pointed, hairy. Corolla four- 
toothed, slightly spreading, hairy on the outside, twice the 
length of the calyx, nearly regular, purple, and varyitg 
with the internal membrane of the stem in the depth of its 
shade, lower segments slightly emarginate. Stamens four, 
exserted; anthers like rounded, clavate, terminations to the 
filaments, pale, unilocular, bursting in a line across their 
extremities, and becoming brown; pollen subglobular, 
white ; filaments pink, straight, distant, having in thelr 
middle a whorl of hairs, appearing under the microscopé 
like strings of round beads. Style filiform, as long a8 the 
stamens, cleft at the top ; segments revolute. Stigma cap 
tate. Germen four-lobed. Granam. , 
My friend Professor Granam is perfectly correct m Te 
ferring this plant to the Menrua verticillata of RoxBuRreH; 
for, though somewhat at variance with the description ° 
Mr. Don in the Prodromus Flore Nepalensis, it quite 2 
cords with the figure sent by Dr. Roxsureu to the Honour 
able the East India Company. It is a native of watery 
places in Bengal as well as in Nepal, and was raised in the 
Edinburgh Botanic Garden from seeds obtained from the 
latter country, and communicated by Capt. M‘Gitt. ‘ 
plants were reared in the stove in pots set in watel, bu 
. 
after blossoming they soon damped off without produci"s 
- any seed. 
tT 0: 
Fig. 1. Flower and two Buds. 2. Stamen. 3. Hair from the Stame® 
4, Pistil—_ Mag nified, 
