7998. CTETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Spermacoce, 
Stem short and generally annual. Lower branches opposite, supe- 
rior alternate, round, coloured, very hairy, somewhat scabrous, weak, 
spreading and variously curved — Leaves opposite, sessile, round, 
‘obovate, or nearly oval, somewhat acute; hairy on both sides, edges 
recurved and more or less curled.— Connecting stipule with three, 
four, or five filiform processes.— Flowers axillary, generally in pairs, 
though often several together, but expanding in succession, sessile, 
small, purple.—C«/yr, the four divisions or in this species rather 
leaflets, lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube of the corol.— Corol 
sub-campanulate, half four-cleft.— Stamens as long as the segments 
of the corol.— Style as long as the stamens. Stigmas two, two-lobed, 
segments revolute.— Capsule oval, two-celled. -Partition membras 
naceous.— Seed solitary, oval, equally: obtuse at each eud,- 
2. S. articularis. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. i. 572. 
d diffuse, four-sided. I eaves opposite, sessile, broad-lan- 
:ceolate ; connecting stipules from three to five-bristled. Flowers ver- 
ticelled. Coro? iufundibuliform, four times longer than the calyx. 
Stamens and style erect. 
A native of the sandy soil on the Coast of Coromandel near the 
sea, and in flower the greatest part of the year. 
Root generally ennual.— Stem scarcely any, but many dive 
straggling, four-sided, alternate, hispid branches from one to two 
feet in length.— Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, a little bairy ; 
veins simple, from one to two inches long, and half an inch broad. 
— Connecting stipules cup-shaped, with from three to six bristles from 
each side —owers axillary, sessile, two, three, or four expanding 
iu succession from the same áxill. — Calyx with slender, linear divis 
sions.— Corol iufundibuliform. - — Tube slender, three or four times 
longer than the calyx.—Stamens erect. —Sligma erect, bifid; _lobes 
broad, and revolute. — Capsule two-celled, partition membranaceo. 
— Seed solitary, oval, furrowed on the flat side. 
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