Spermacoce. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 375 
blossoms and ripens its seed from September till February and is 
by far the prettiest Spermacoce I have yet met with. 
Stems erect, perfectly straight, round, smooth. Branches oppo- 
site, and like the stems, whole height about threé feet.— Leaves op- 
posite, sub-sessile; lanceolate, smooth, entire ; from one to three inch- 
es long.— Connecting membrane divided into several subulate seg- 
ments.— Corymbs terminal, compound and decompound.— Flowers 
numerous, large, pale pink.— Dractes small, and at the divisions of 
the corymbs chiefly.— Calyx one of the four segments large, all the 
segments permanent.—Corol funnel-shaped, before expansion the 
apex is large, with four-horns ; after expansion these projections form 
aconical knob under the apex of each segment. Mouth of the tube 
bearded.— Filaments short; anthers linear, just within the tube.— . 
Germ two-celled, with one seed in each, attached to the top of the 
partition ; style longer than the tube of the corol; stigma bifid, 
segments revolute.— Capsule oblong, crowned, two-celled, two-valv- 
ed; valves keeled on the back. Seed ole, longitudinally groov- . 
ed on the middle of the inside. 
Obs. It may be readily distinguished from S. teres (the only 
species known to me that it can be mistaken for) by its smoothness, 
greater size of the flowers, and the segments of their border being 
enlarged with a conic knob on the outside of their points. 
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6. S. lineata. R. z E 
Erect, ramous, hairy. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, 
linear, Stipules triangular and shaggy. Heads axillary on trichoto- 
. Mous short peduncles ; stamina protruded. 
A native of the Moluccas. The lineate, hairy, very acute, taper- 
ing leaves, long shaggy triangular stipule; and small peduncled heads 
of axillary flowers readily distinguish this species from all the other ` 
East Indian species known to me. 
7. S. nana. R, ; 
Erect, simple, nearly round and smooth ; /eaces petioled, lanceo- 
late, entire, smooth; flowers axillary and terminal, sessile, crowded. 
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