Epermacoee. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. I a7 
connecting membrane with generally three, unequal, slender, subu- 
late divisions.—F/owers axillary, numerous, pale pink, very small, 
crowded together into small round heads, on short peduncles, and 
pedicels the whole forming little, proliferous, villous umbels.—Jn- 
volucre and Involucels annular, villous, from three to six-parted.— 
. Calyx, divisions equal, acute, hairy.—Corol funnel-shaped, hairy 
on the outside and in the throat of the tube ; divisions of the border 
recarved.— Stamens protruded beyond the mouth of the corol Germ 
bensath, broad-turbinate. Style about as long as the tube of the 
corol. Stigma two-cleft, villous.—Pericarp with two seeds. 
10. S. semierecta. R. ; 
Stem variously bent, but ascending, square. Branches brachi- 
ate, alternately smaller. Leaves ovate. Flowers in small, compact | 
verticils. — Stamens and style inclosed. Capsule tarbinate, hairy. 
A native, I suppose, of Sumatra, as the plant from which this 
description is taken sprung up in a bed, where earth from that Island 
had been thrown, and in one year was about a foot and a half high. 
The lower branches brachiate ; the superior often solitary, they are 
all very exactly four-sided with angles sharp and somewhat hispid ; 
in other ‘respects they are very smooth.— Leaves opposite, with 
smaller ones in their axills, short-petioled, ovate, accuminate, entire, 
very slightly scabrous, particularly the margins, with nerves and veins 
on the underside.— Connecting membrane divided into several fili- 
form portions.— Flowers numerous, very small, white, sessile, col- 
lected into small compact, round verticills.— Coro], divisions of the 
border bearded in the centre.—Anthers within the tube. . 
11. S. scabra. Linn. Sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 579. - 
Annual, diffuse, round, hairy. Leaves opposite, sessile, a, obo- 
vate, the hairy margins much curved, and somewhat curled. Flow- ` 
ers axillary, sessile. Stamens and style erect. 
Tardavel. Rheed. Hort. Mal. 9. p. 149. t.76. The leaves however 
are a little too sharp for our Coromandel plant. 
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