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vidual, at least, might, without any violence to nature, be 
united to Elatine.—H.] - 
SurPL. Tas. XXVIII. Fig 1,2, Flowers. Fig. 3, Section 
-of a capsule. Fig. 4, Portion of the stem, with glandular 
hairs :—magnified. 
XXIX, 
MICROCARPZEA COCHLEARIFOLIA. 
Dianpria Monoeynia. Nat. Ord. ScRoPHULARINZ. 
Microcarpsa cochlearifolia; caulibus prostratis subsarmen- 
tosis, foliis oppositis subrotundo-spathulatis carnosis, flori- 
bus axillaribus sessilibus geminatis. (Surrr. Tas, X XIX.) 
M. cochlearifolia. Sm. in Rees’ Cycl. 
Peplidium humifusum. Delile. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 43. 
Pederota cochlearifolia. Koen. et Rottl. MSS. in Herb. nostr. 
Hedyotis maritima. Linn. Suppl. p. 119. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. 
p. 566. 
Oldenlandia maritima. Roth, Pl. Ind. Or. p. 97. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 446. 
Amampacharisy. Tamul. 
Stems filiform, diffuse, prostrate, somewhat sarmentose, 
Jointed, rooting at the joints. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, 
varying in different plants from spathulate to orbicular, entire, 
glabrous, fleshy. lowers axillary, sessile, in pairs, small, 
white. Calyx tubular, persistent, slightly 5-cleft; segments 
obtuse; the £ube contracted by five plaits, which gradually 
disappear as the enclosed capsule enlarges. Corolla 5-lobed ; 
one of the lobes a little larger than the rest. Stamens 2, within 
the corolla: filaments attached to the middle of the tube, thick, 
short, angularly incurved. Anthers approximated, roundish, 
situated on, or rather in, the thickened apex of the filament. 
Pistil: germen superior. Style thelength of the stamens. Stigma 
red, compressed, hooked over the anthers. Capsule about the 
size of a coriander seed, 2-celled, fragile. dieto n Humorous, 
ovate, attached to a large central receptacle. . 
