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. Hedyotis. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
ovate-lanceolate, nerved and plaited. - Corymbs peduncled, aggre- 
gate, axillary, opposite, shorter than the leaves, open. Flowers pedi- 
celled, mostly ternate. Calycine segments very long. 
Sent to me from Nepala by the Hon. Mr. Gardner; time of 
blossoming the rainy season. - 
Root fibrous, strong.—Stem' short, woody, divided into several 
simple, long, very hairy branches, rounded, smoother, and joint- 
ed towards the base, somewhat flattened. at their upper-ends.— 
Leaves in approximate pairs, from two to three inches long, some- 
what more than an inch broad, acute at the base, attenuate and 
acuminate at their end, rough and hairy on both sides, with many ap- ' 
proximate, parellel, downy nerves, deeply furrowed and plaited'above, a 
acquiring on being dried, as well all the younger parts, a yellow ap- 
pearance.— Petio/s half an inch long, broad aud slightly marginated, 
furrowed.—Stipule broad-lanceolate or triangular, as long as the . 
| petiols, adpressed, tapering into a very long, sometimes bifid, or tri- — 
fid, hispid acumen.— Peduncles slender, an inch long, several in each 
axil, erect, once or twice trichotomous, with subulate bractes under 
each division.— Flowers rather large, pedicelled, mostly in threes.— 
Calyx round, hispid, with four lanceolate persistent lacini, almost 
as long as the smooth tubular corolla, the segments of which are li- 
near-lanceolate, acute-—Stamina short. Filaments and Style pubes- 
cent, Stigma two-lobed.— Capsule globose, as large as a Coriander 
seed, crowned, hispid, many-seeded, 
Obs. In ġeneral appearance and in the leaves this species agrees 
with H. capitata, Lam. ; but it differs in having opposite aggregate 
corymbs, ard in the flowers not being capitate. 
7. H. gracilis. Wall. v 
Erect, slightly scabrous, with lengthened, sub-dichotomous, naked 
branches. Leaves linear. Stipules truncate, fimbriated, at last naked- 
Peduncles terminal, very long, tern, sub-panicled. — Stigmas linear. 
H. stricta, Wall. in Asiat. Res, xiii. p. 369. ; 
_ A native of the Turrace and of Nepala; sent to me from the 
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