372 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Spermacoce, 
former place: = Mr. Assistant Surgeon William Jack, from thes Jata 
ter by Mr. Gardner. Flowering time the hot season. 
Nepala name Goshega-soa. 
Obs. I take this opportunity of correcting an error which I com- 
mitted in the description reférred to above by calling my plant H. 
stricta: a name which had already previously been given to a dif. 
ferent species from Sierra Leone, by Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees’s new 
Cyclopedia, aud which therefore I have altered to gracilis, | 
SPERMACOCE. Schreb. Gen. N. 155. p 
Calyx four-leaved. Coro! funnel-shaped. Capsule inferior, crown- | 
ed, two-celled, two-valved. ^ Seed solitary, longitudinally furrowed 
on the inside. Embryo erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 
1. S. sumatrensis. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd i. 571. Retz. Obs.iv. 93. 
Shrubby, erect, four-sided. Leaves lanceolate, remote, short-petio- 
led... Gorymbs terminal, decompound. seems PURE from the 
base. nd E. 
A native of moist places amongst the Cosas. füouhtelié Flowers 
during the rainy season. 
Stem erect, woolly, obsoletely four-sided. Branches ‘opposite, four- 
sided.— Leaves opposite, spreading, short-petioled, lanceolate, dow- — 
ny; size very various.— Stipules connecting, membranous, two or 
three-toothed.—Umbel compound, terminal.— Flowers. white, very 
small.—Calyr four-leaved.— Corol with short, gibbous tube.—Cap- 
sule oblong, two-celled, two-valved, Swope from the base.— 
Seed solitary. 
Obs. This species ought to be Carelally compared with. Hedyotis 
fruticosa, Retz. Obs. ii. 8 ; and the capsule of the same. species. in 
Linn. Flor. Zeyl. N. 63. KAEN be well examined.* The stipules: 
seem the chief difference. In my plant they are always a lacerated 
connecting membrane. ; 5 152 ie d 
>: The reader is a to — = otim on this plant in Rees's 
Cyclopzdia, Vol. xvii—N. W. 
