PIANDRIA MONOGTNIA. G ;atiol 
ioled, ovate. Flower amongst the verticils of spines, sube 
“Hind. Custoola. 
| Found by Dr. Hunter i in the vicinity of Ougein, i in seed and flow- 
er dn March. 
GRATIOLA. Schreb. Gen. N. ST. 
‘Corol one-petalled, irregular. Sterile filaments two, affixed to the 
lower lip of the corol. Anthers double, and connected. Capsules 
superior, two-celled, two-valved, Seeds numerous, 
1. G. amara. .R. AV 
' Annual (in Bengal), creeping. Leaves petioled, cordate, serrate. 
Peduncles axillary, four to six flowered, Calyx four-leaved, exterior — 
pair cordate, inner subulate, apices of the sterile filaman 
Capsule ovate, hid in the a a vs : 
< Caranga amara. V. akl Enum. rol. le 100, j 
Serratula amara. Rumph. amb. 5. p. 459. t. 170. 4 l. whic a ; 
been quoted by mistake, I presume, for Scutellaria indica. 
"This pretty plant has been accidentally introduced into the Bota- 
nic Garden, among spice and other plants from the Miluceh 
Flowering time the cold season. £ 
_ Root fibrous.—Stems and branches creeping, with their extremis 
ties sub-erect, four-sided, coloured, smooth. — Leaves opposite pe^ — 
tioled, cordate, deeply serrate, somewhat rugose, of a soft texture 
but free of pubescence, general length about two inches. — Pedun- : 
cles axillary, solitary, rather longer than the petióles, supporting ^ s 
their extremities, two or three pairs, of opposite pedicelled flowers 
—Bractes small, oblong, one under the insertion of each pedicel. 
—Calyz of two pair of opposite leaflets ; exterior ‘pair large, yee 
date, often notched ; the upper one larger, and incumbent over the 
rest of the calyx, and all the corol except the under lip, inner OY la 
teral pair, linear-lanceolate, and much smaller than the exterior 
