Spermacoce. ^. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - 379 .— 
13. S. hispida. Linn. Mant. 558. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i, 579. 
Annual, with diffuse, obsoletely four-sided, hairy branches. Leaves 
obovate, cuneate, waved, scabrous. Flowers verticelled, two, three, 
or four iu each axil. Tube of the corol twice the length of the calyx. 
Stamens and style erect. 
Teling. Madana- banik 
„Galeopsis zeylanica. Burm. Zeyl. t. 20. f 3. agrees pretty well 
vili my plant except in the numerous pedicelled flowe:s. 
-Common on the sandy lands near the sea on the Coast of Coro- 
mandel. - 
14, S. pusilla, Wall. 
Erect, simple, four-sided, scabrous, with short hairs.— Leaves sese. 
sile, linear, smooth and silvery beneath, rather shorter than their ina 
terstices. Stipuldry cilie very long. Vi erticils capitate, Stamina .. 
exserted. Capsule villous at the top and bursting there in two bifid 
valves. - 
— Native of the Valley of Nepala ; discovered by Mr. Gardner dur. i 
ing the rains. - 
Root small, fibrous.— Stem single, undivided, four-sided, filiform, 
from four to six inches high, as well as the upper surface of the leaves, 
Tough with short, whitish, subulate hairs; erect, somewhat adscending 
‘at the: base.— 1 eaves about an inch long, spreading, tapering into a 
point, dark-green above, smooth and of a silvery white colour below, . 
with an elevated hairy rib ; nerveless; above the base they are a little 
contracted, thence they widen i into an ample membranaceous trunca- 
ted stipula which is crowned with five capillary long ciae. Flowers 
very small, pale, sub-sessile, crowded together into four or five dense 
axillary veriiciis, of which the uppermost are larger and capitate’ 
and supported by four reflexed floral leaves.— Segments of the calyx 
erect, linear, as long as the filiform, smooth tube, deciduous. Throat 
of the corolla wide ; lacinie lanceolate, equalling the spreading fi- 
laments, Ovarium obloug, slightly compressed, with a longitudinat 
furrow on each side, smooth at the base, villous at the P or. 
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