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alternate.— Leaves opposite, short-petioled, depending, lanceolate, - 
entire, smooth ; the pair are generally unequal in size.—Spikes axils 
lary or terminal, sessile, much shorter than the leaves, secund, ge- 
nerally three together, the middle one largest.— Flowers 5 very small, 
bright blue.— Bracies, to each flower five, of different sizes, oval or 
lanceolate, with beautiful white, membranaceous margins.— Coro? ; 
upper lip entire, acute.—Anthers, the lower one of each filament 
has along obtuse horn from the usda pla four-seeded, 
two in each cell. . 3 
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| (81. &, lamifolia. Kön. MSS. : 
Whole plant very downy, procumbent, saisit Leave oval. Spikes 
terminal, imbricated, Calyx four-leaved. t | sE 
Found in the vicinity of Calcutta, in uncultivated diady RA e 
— Root fibrous.—Síems and branches very numerous, round, 
spreading close on the earth, clothed with long soft hair, and down, 
somewhat glutinous, length from one to three feet.— Leaves oppo- 
site, sub-sessile, oval, entire, clothed and glutinous like the branch- 
ês; about an inch long.—Spikes terminal, oblong, closely imbricat- 
ed with the bractes, and flowers.— Flowers numerous, small, varie- 
gated with deep and light purple.— Bractes ovate, one-flowered, 
hairy, clammy.— Calyx four-leaved, the under leaflet with its apex 
bifid —Corol ringent. Tube gibbous ; throat compressed ; upper lip | 
two-parted, and streaked with deep purple; under lip broad, and 
three-parted.— Filaments short, inserted into the mouth of the tube. 
Anthers twin, singly oval, and all equal. —Stigma of two, — 
spreading lobes,— Capsule conical.— Seeds eight or ten, roundish. © 
Obs. Tt has the calyx of a Barleria, and the stamina of a Diei ; 
thera. Mr. R. Brown informs me that he thought i it es elong 
to a new genus, which he calls — i 
p. e spines verticelled with their apices vis, — 
