382. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ~ ——— Galiume, 
shining colour and has the peculiar roughness of some of the species, 
of Cordia.—N. W. 
8. G. Aparine. 
Leaves in eights, lanceolate ; keels scabrous, with prickles point- 
ing backwards, Joints villous, Bruit hispid. Linn. P Pl. ed. Willd. 
i. p. 597. 
In the Botanic Garden at Calcutta it blossomed freely in March, 
1819. x gf $3 
The description of this wel known species, Shiel Miller and 
Lamarck have given, agrees well with the Nepala plant. | 1t inéa- 
sured when in flower about two feet in length, with abundance of 
weak opposite or alternate branches, by which it supported itself on. 
the nearest plants. The stem-/eaves in whorls of six or seven, from an. 
inch to two long, about two lines broad at their middle, and from, 
thence much tapering. "The upper ones smaller, generally in sixes 
or fives, but all equalling their interstices, upper surface scabrous,. 
the margins and keel as well as the sharp angles of the stem and. 
branches beset with pellucid recurved prickles. — Peduncles axillary, 
mostly opposite and three-flowered.— — Calyx imperceptible. —Co-, 
rolla exceedingly small, of a yellowish tint,— Styles two. —Fruit 
thickly beset with hooked bristles. —N. W. . i 
3. G. elegans. Wall. 
Leaves in fours, ovate or round-ovate, obtuse, three-nerved, soft, 
hairy with villous nerves ; stems diffuse, hairy; punicles trichotomous; 
seeds beset with hooked bristles. 
A native of Nepala, from whence I received spécimens in m 
from Mr. Gardner. . die 
Root slender, creeping, red, with verticilled fibres.—Stems weak, 
_ elongated, four-cornered, two or more feet long, very villous while 
young, afterwards smoother, having only some roughish slightly res 
curved hair along the corners ; with a few ‘alterna‘e branches— 
Leaves about half an inch, sometimes an inch long, sessile, entire; 
mostly shorter than their interstices, sightly tapering towards the 
base, dotted and hairy above, smoother below; the uper 2d 
