140 ; DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA- Gratiola, | 
Stems several, Sui: erect, ramous, four-sided, smooth ; from three 
to six inches high. —Leaves sessile, opposite to each other, ora 
flower, | linear-lanceolate, serrate, smooth.— Peduncles leaf-opposed, 
or opposite to each other, short, horizontal, clubbed.— Bractes $0- 
litary, embracivg the insertion of the peduncle, — Flowers small, 
blue.—An'hers two pairs united. Sterile filaments small, white.— 
Capsules linear, twice the length of the calyx. | 
. G. serrata. R: 
=e erect, four-sided, smooth. Lh opposite, stem-clasp- 
ing, oblong, smooth, most acutely serrate. Racemes in the division - 
of the branches, aud terminal, long-peduncled. Capsules linear, di- 
verging. | 
Beng. Bhoomi-nim. 
Pee-tsjanga-puspum. Reed. mal. 9. t. 59. is exceedingly like 
this plant, though quoted by Linneus for Ruellia antipoda, which I 
have never met with, if this be not it. | 
A native of Bengal, and in flower during the rains. . 
Root annual.— Stem erect, four-sided, ramous, smooth, from. two 
to eight inches high.— Leaves opposite, sessile, or stem-clasping, ob- 
long, very obtuse, most acutely serrate; smooth on both sides.— 
Racemes solitary, terminal, and also from the divisions of the plant, 
on long, four-sided peduncles.— Flowers opposite, short-pedicelled, 
verging, pink-coloured.— Bractes lanceolate, the lower pair of the ra- 
cemes dentate.— Calyz parted half way.—Coro/, upper lip. small, 
inc usa Desa se THEE lepeeolate, twice the length ot the calyx. 
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12. G. ptas, R. 
Annual, creeping. Leaves opposite, from oblong to round, ser- 
rate. Racemes terminal. Sterile filaments free. Capsule linear. : 
A native of the Moluccas ; from thence introduced dito the toe 
nic Garden, where it blossoms during the rains. 
Stems and branches round, smooth, and creeping close to the - 
earth, with short, (about an inch long) floriferous, erect shoots.— 
Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, on the creeping shoots round, on the 
