420  TETRANDRIA 'MONOGYNIA. Mitrasacme: 
MITRASACME, Labillard. 
Calyx angular, four, seldom two-cleft. Corolla deciduous, with 
angular tube, and four-cleft equal border. Style single, bifid at the 
-base. Capsule bursting between the divisions of the Ap 
1. M. eapillaris, Wall. 
Stem erect, hairy ; leaves lanceolate, hairy above, connected at the 
‘base by means of a narrow ciliated membrane, the uppermost ap- 
proximated, sub-quatern ; umbel peduncled, mostly compound ; calyx 
half the length of the corolla, its segments villous at their apex; stig- 
“ma almost entire; apex of the capsule exserted. : 
A native of the valley of Nepala, where it blossoms in Septem- 
ber. Specimens were communicated by the Hon. E. Gardner. 
Root fibrous. Stem erect, capillary, from three to six inches high, 
mostly undivided, slightly compressed.— Leaves spreading, acute, 
“ciliate, three-nerved, -sessile, smooth below, four or five lines long, 
exceeding their interstices ; the uppermost two pairs so close toge- 
ther as to. appear almost verticilled—Umbel terminal, divided into. 
‘three or four rays, which are again sub-divided into several slender 
pedicels, ‘Iwo cr three lanceolate, minute, counate bractes under 
the primary divisions.— Calyx four-cleft; its segments lanceolate, 
acute, united at the base by a small membrane. Corolla sub-cam- 
panulate, slightly pubescent, white, with ovate laciniae.—Stamina in- 
closed; anthers oblong, attached to the back of the filaments. — Ova- 
rium ovate, bi-cuspidate. Style capillary, persistent; when the cap» 
sule ripens, the division at the base extends almost up to the slightly 
two-lobed, sub-capitate stigma.— Capsule ovate, smooth, bursting at 
the top with a roundish aperture between the divisions of the style i 
valves very short, scarcely equalling one-third of the capsule, acute, 
Ancurved. Seeds minute, whitish. 
Obs. This Tittle plant comes near to M. connata, Brown, Prodr. 
Flor. Nov. Holl. i. 454 ; it differs in the shorter limb and the ovate. 
segments of the corolla, and the style not being entire when the 
flower opens,.—N. W,- s 
