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Lycopus. /" . DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - Hä 
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- L found. this delicate plant growing among rice in. the vicinity of 
' Serampore during the rainy season. = 
Root consisting of a few capillary simple and short fibres. —Scape : 
about six inches long, sometimes divided in two equal br anches, when 
fruit-bearing n and tw ining. — Flowers from four to eight, white 
with a yellowish entire palate, very smallon short alternate pedicels, 
- Calyx permanent, of two orbicular segments, the uppermost larger 
and concave.— Upper lip very short, linear erect, ending in two | 
toothlets; lower lip ovate, larger. Spur almost twice as long as the 
lower lp, conical. — Capsule | c: c ix Sd he = 
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Corol four-cleft, with one. of the divisions emarginate. - Stamina 
distinct. Seeds four, retuse. 
1. L. dianthera. Buch. 
Annual, erect, four-sided. Leaves petioled, thomb-ovate, serrate, 
Calyx bilabiate. ; 
A native of Nepala ; from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the seeds 
to this garden, (in 1802,) where the plants thrive during the cold 
season, and blossom in March and April. 
. Stems annual, straight, four-sided ; sides slightly g grooved ; + angles 
somewhat hairy. Branches axillary, decussate, four-sided, &c. like 
the: stem ; height of the whole plant from one to two feet.— Leaves 
opposite, petioled, declined, rhomb-ovate ;  anteriour margins serrate, 
dotted with minute, darker green glands underneath, general length 
about one inch, or less.— Racemes terminal — Bractes opposite, lan- 
.ceolate, one-flowered.— Flowers pedicelled, small, very pale pink, 
almost white.—Calyr bilabiate ; upper lip ascending, tridentate ; low- 
er lip bipartite, and, defended with hair on the inside.— Corol ; ; tube 
Short, somewhat four-sided ; upper division of the border broad. and 
emarginate ; lateral two of the same length, but narrower e d 
Circular ; under one large, and nearly round.— Fi uments four, 
in the ae of the tube of the corol—z Ln 
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