Gratiola. BIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 141 
erect flower-bearing ones oblong, with rounded apices ; all serrate, 
and smooth on both sides.—Peduicles or racemes terminal, on the 
short, erect shoots, bearing several, approximate pairs of short-pe- 
dicelled, opposite, large, pale bluish pink flowers.— Bractes opposite, 
one-flowered, ovate.— Calyx five-leaved.—Corol with an enlarged 
throat, and ringent border ; upper lip of one pale coloured segment ; 
under lip broad, deeper coloured, and three-parted.— Sterile fila- 
ments large, yellow, clavate, with the apices a little recurved, per- 
fectly free.— Stigma of two, thin, broad, round lobes.—Capsule li- — 
near, as long as the calyx, two-celled, two-valved. 
13. G. parviflora. R. Cor. Pl. N: 203. 
Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves sessile, ovate-oblong, three-ner- 
ved, serrate. Flowers long-peduncled, solitary. Sterile filaments two- 
cleft. Capsules oblong. | 
Stems erect, ramous, four-sided ; with their angles acute, about 
six inches high.— Leaves opposite, sessile, ovate-oblong, slightly ser- 
rate, acute, when large three-nerved.— Flowers axillary, solitary, long- - 
peduncled, small ; I have seen some plants with white flowers, and 
others with blue ones.—Anthers twin. Sterile filament two-cleft, 
each division headed — Capsules rather oblong, pointed, longer than 
the ays 
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44. G. Monnieria. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 102. 
Annual, creeping. Leaves sessile, long, obovate, entire. Pedun- 
cles axillary, solitary, one-flowered. Calyx seven-leaved. Corol cam- 
panulate ; stamina four. 
Beng. Adha-birni. 
Teling. Sambrani-chittoo. tag 
A native of moist places, borders of brooks, kc.. Bienia time 
the wet and cold seasons. ; 
Stems several, annual, creeping, round, jointed, very ramous, 
smooth, succulent.— Leaves opposite, sessile, obovate, wedge-shap- 
ed, or oblong, smooth, entire, obtuse, fleshy, dotted with. minut 
Een on pedi alternate, mim smooth, short- 
