415 YÉTRANDEIA MONOGYNIA, Pladerd. 
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and branches. Leaves sub-sessile, lanceolate, fleshy, three-nerveds 
Calyx with four ridges ; stamens erect ; capsules globular. — 
A native of Bengal; blossoms during the cool season ; the seeds 
ripen in March. 
Root fibrous, annual.—Stem erect, from six to twelve inahiie high, 
smooth, sulcated on opposite sides. Branches opposite, their flow- 
er-bearing extremities two, and three times two-cleft.— Leaves oppos 
site, sub-sessile, lanceolate, fleshy, entire, three-nerved ; from one 
to two inches long.— Flowers terminal, numerous, of a bright blue cos 
Jour, those in the divisions of the branchlets long-peduncled.—Pe- 
duncles four-sided.— Bractes ovate, recurved.—Calyx deeply four- 
parted; divisions with an ample keel.— Filaments short, inserted iu 
the mouth of the tabe of the corol. Anthers ovate, oblong, touch- 
ing at the sides, apices perforated.—Style longer than the stamens, 
declined; stigma two-lobed.—Capsule globular, twoccelled, two- 
valved.— Seeds numerous. 
Obs. This is a very beautiful small plant. 
PLADERA. Solander's Mss.* 
Calyx cylindric, four-toothed. Corol funnel-shaped, border irre- 
gular. One of the stamina larger. Stigma two-lobed. Capsule 
superior, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds numerous. 
1. P. sessiliflora, R. 
Annual, erect, four-sided ; angles winged. Leaves opposite, ses 
sile, ovate, entire. Flowers: sessile. 
Exacum heteroclitum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. p. 639. 
Gentiana heteroclita, Mant. 560. : 
A native of Coromandel and Bengal, appears on moist pasture 
ground during the rains and first part of the cool season. 
Stem erect, with two or three pairs of opposite branches, W 
are again once or oftener dichotomous, all are four-sided,’ with a thia 
which 
9! Canscora, Lamatck.—N. Ws 
