8% TEPRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Hedyotis. . 
introduced in 1815 in the Botanic Garden near Calcutta, by Mr. 
Daitari 1: 
Beng. Muttia-lata. 
Root fibrous.— Stem short, woody, divided into many slender ge- 
nerally once or twice dichotomous roundish or slightly four-sided 
branches, measuring a foot in length, densely villous sometimes 
rooting at the base.— Leaves lanceolate, tapering and acute at both 
ends, an inch or an inch and a half long, even above, with several 
oblique villous nerves underneath, margins scabrous; pairs approxi- 
mate and exceeding in length their interstices.—Petiols very short, 
the uppermost somewhat longer, hispid, uniting into a membrana- 
ceous, villous, stipulary membrane, which is terminated by long his- 
pid ciliz..— Flowers small, crowded into sessile, globose, axillary, €o- 
pious, villous, verticils, concealing, but scarcely longer than the peti- 
ols and rendering their stipules reflexed.—Lacinia of the calyx li- 
near.—Tube of the corolla scarcely longer than the calyx.— Lacinie 
lanceolar acute.--Throat pubescent.— Stamina  exserted, erect, 
shorter than the limb of the corolla, with pubescent filaments —Style 
barbate.— Stigma oblong.— Capsule small, round, slightly furrowed. 
— Dissepiment entire.— Seeds many, three-cornered, shining, brown. 
Obs. I took this plant to be H. nervosa, Lam. or hirsuta of the 
same author, until I discovered that Sir J. E. Smith had | proposed 
them as varieties only of H. Auricularia ; Rees's Cyclop. inloco.— 
The branchy dichotomous habit of my plant, its hairy petiols and 
capsules are wanting in them all and may perhaps be deemed sufli- 
cient to form it into a new species, which I am unwilling at present 
to add to this difficult genus.. It differs very little, perhaps only in the 
rounded branches from the species described by — as Ret- 
. zius's hispida. 
I have not cited Burman's Valerianella palustris, 'Thes. Zeyl. 227. 
p. 108. f. 1. because it does not well agree with Rheede’ s or my 
plant.—N. W. ` ; 5 
6. H. ulmifolia. Wall, 
^. Decumbent, hispid with short spreading dense hairs. Leaves 
