Ludwigia. | TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 44 
A small, ramous plant, 2 native of Bengal; flow ering s time the Tai 
: ny, season ; seed ripe about October. : ; 
Root ramous, annual —Stez short, round, in young plants erect, 
Branches many, diffuse, slightly striated ; the whole plant of a dark- 
ferruginous colour.-—L eaves, alternate, short-petioled, lanceolate, ene 
tire, smooth, length from one to three inches.— F lowers - axillary, 
small, sessile. The leaves about the ends of the branches are so 
small, aud crowded, as to make the extremities of the branchlets ap- 
pear like leafy spikes. — Bractes, a most minute. one on each side of 
the insertion of each flower.—Calyz, the divisions. taper to most 
. acute points, and. equal the ‘oblong petals.—Capsule beneath, linear, 
obsoietely four-sided, smooth, fourevalved. — Secds coloured, numere - 
ous, very small, eee Eo: 2 1 E 
2. L. prostrata, R. Poea Si 
* Lower branches ereeping. Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolar.- 
-. Flowers axillary, sessile. Capsules filiform, with one row ef'seeds in 
each cell, attached immediately to the axis. 
A natiye of Pegu, from thence introduced into this garden, tee 
it blossoms and ripeus its seed during the rainy season. v 
Root aunual. — Stem leaning much to one side, from one to two 
feet long. Branches numerous, the lower ones longer than the stem, 
spreading flat on the ground aud striking. root, smooth, striated, ge- 
nerally coloured with red. Leaves alternate, shoit-petioled, lanceo- 
lar, entire, smooth, size various, the largest froin. three t to five inches 
E: — Flowers axillary, sessile, from one to. several, on the same 
axil, very small much elevated on the four-sided  peduncle-like 
germ.—Petals lanceolar, longer than the calyx, yellow. — Filaments 
four, length of the style. Anthers roundish, two-lobed, always a after 
expansion found saiti to the large clammy stigma.— apsules 
slender, sub-tiliform, more or less curved, smooth, iGicornered ; dá 
angles rounded, sides grooved; four-c elled.—Seeds oval, minute, © 
pink-coloured, disposed in one vertical row and “attached ` imme- 
diately to the axis, — the intervention of a: by thiig like a re- 
teptacle, - 
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