376 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Spermacoce. 
:: A very small species, less than six inches high, a native of the” 
Island of Honimoa. 
8. S. stricta. Linn. Sp. Pl. p Willd. i. 518. A 
' Annual, erect, four-sided.. Leaves sessile, lineari A ; flow- 
ers in dense, globular, axillary verticils ; capsules scabrous, gaping 
at the apex. : 
Teling. Sookukada. ; : i5 
An annual, a native of wet rice fields, mpra and flowers during, 
the rainy season... - 
Stem erect, branchy, four-sided, about a foot high, angles acute en 
.scabrous. Branches decussated, stem-like, but slender ia 
opposite, sessile, lanceolate, entire, a little scabrous.—Stipule, a con- 
necting membrane, ciliate.— V erticils globular. Involucres. leaf-like, 
— Flowers most numerous, minute, white.— Tube cylindric.— Stigma 
dieit Colo two-celled, opening at the apex.—Seed solitary. 
9. s. pto R 
Diffuse, | very downy. Leaves asi ase or oblong, ribbed. i 
Flowers crowded on little Eme Keron umbellets- Sening 
protruded. ! HORER 
Hedyotis Auricularia. Linn:* po den ju Barton 
Supposed to be a native of the Moluccas, as the Slant sprung up! in 
the Botanic Garden, from-some earth brought with the spice plants 
from those Islands in 1800, It blossoms and ape its seed during 
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: the greatest part of the year. 
Root biennial, if not perennial. — Stems or rather branches many, 
diffuse, round, from one to three feet long, clothed with long, soft | 
diverging hairs,— Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, broad-lancedlate, en- 
tire, ribed with numerous large, simple, parallel veins ; ; downy 9, 
both eee from two to three inches long, and about one broad i 
^* This is. unquestionably a distinct plant from that described ios, icis tat : 
- and leaves resembles my Hedyotis ulmifolia.: See above, p.910—N. We o 
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