374 ae: TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Spermacoce, 
reality it is that of a Knoxia ; here it does not open spontaneously, 
aud has black round seed. 
3. S. exserta. R, ! PA 
Shrubby, straight, tender parts villous. Leaves remote, opposite, 
petioled, lanceolate; corymbs terminal, decompound. Stamina 
and the bifid stigma exsert. Capsule oval. 
A native of the Circars, where it blossoms in October and No- 
vember. ' : 
Obs. Is nearly allied to S. teres, farther exatnination may prove them 
the same. 
4.5. glabra. R.* 
Shrubby, round, smooth, erect. Leaves linear-lanceolate, smooth. 
Corymbs axillary, compound ; styles hairy. Stigma clavat oe 
globular, smooth. x 
. A native of Pulo-pinang, has much ic habit of a sie grass 
or slender bamboo, the situation of the leaves excepted. 
Branches round, smooth, straight, jointed, in the dry specimens 
fistulous.— Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, linear-lanceolate, smooth, 
entire, length from four to six inches: ; connecting membrane with 
unequal awned processes from its mop .— Peduncles axillary, | bear- 
ing several cross-armed, minute umbellèts or headlets of small cream- 
coloured flowers.— Bractes minute.— Corol bell-shaped, mouth of 
-the tube hairy.— Style longer than the corol, hairy. Stigma clavate, 
grooved.— Capsule globular, smooth, size of a large pin’s head. 
.. 6. S. levis, R. 
Biennial, straight, round, smooth. Leaves sub-sessile, lanceola. 
Corymbs terminal. Anthers hid in the bearded mouth of the infun- 
dibuliform- corol. 
A native of the interior of. Bengal; in the ^Botauic oc it 
* This name was previously p to an American distinet species by PW : 
wath. Ww. 
