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Oldeniandia. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. : 443 
Annual, a native of the borders of rice lands and moist places ; 
appears and flowers during the rainy season. 
Stems several, erect, with few branches, four-sided, smooth, about 
a foot or eighteen inches high — Leaves opposite; sub-sessile; oblong, 
amooth, entire, succulent, about two inches long.— Stipules, connect- 
ing membrane broad, toothed.—Umbels terminal, few-fowered.— 
Flowers white, small.. Pedicels four-sided.— Capsules turbinate, 
smooth ; receptacle clubbed, free, affixed by the small end into the 
partition near its base. | 
3. O. paniculata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 38. t. 15- o Lo aes 
_ Biennial, creeping. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Poduncles thres 
flowered, or three times that number, ; 
Introduced into the Botanic Garden from the Malicia in 1798; 
where it blossoms the greatest part of the year. | 
` Stems none; but numerous diffuse; four-sided, smooth, ramous 
branches, spread close on the ground in every direction, and strike. 
root from: their joints, their general length about twelve inches.— 
Leaves opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, smooth, and of a firm 
thick texture, the largest about an inch long. Connecting membrane 
with subulate divisions. ^ Peduncles axillary, and terminal, longer 
than the leaves, smooth, four-sided, with generally three; small, 
white flowers; on pedicels of unequal length.—Corol ; Tube gibbous, 
mouth shut with fme white hairs.—Stamens, in the belly of the tube 
below the hairs which shut its mouth.—Stemina entire. 
4. O. crystallina, R ? | | 
Annual, very ramous. — Pediceis solitary, shorter tharr the leaves, 
- generally two-flowered. Leaves sessile, MERLO under- 
. neath marked with crystalline dotts. | 
-JBeng. Puükz. ' Coe OR, 
Hedyotis pumila, Linn. Sp. Pt. ed. Willd. i. 566. | 
A small, very ramous, diffuse, annual plant, a native of Benge 
appearing in the rainy season. 
Daas 
