Nama. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 73. 
A small, erect, ramous annual, a native of sandy, salt 
lands near the sea. It flowers during the wet season. 
Stem nearly erect, from six to eight inches high, hairy. 
Branches numerous, ascending, alternate; hairy. Leaves 
alternate, very numerous, sessile, the lower, or larger cor- 
date ; the upper or smaller ovate, and lanceolate ; all are 
hairy, soft, and very small. Flowers terminal, sessile, 
small, numerous, white. Bractes like the leaves. Calyx 
asin C. cretica. Corol ; tube campanulate. Segments re- 
volute, outside of their apices hairy, withering. Anthers 
oblong, incumbent.. Germ, its apex woolly. Stigma large, 
globular. Capsules four-seeded. 
' NAMA. Schreb. gen. n. 444. 
.: Calyx five-leaved. Corol rotate, five-parted. Capsules, : 
superior, one-celled, two-valved, aid timgiar’ 2 asia 
Seeds numerous, 
N. Zeylanica Linn. sp. pl. 327, 
Annual, creeping. Leaves lanceolate. Hydrola zeyla- 
nica. Willd, 1. 1327. Vahl. symb. 2. 46. 
~ Sans. Langali. 
Beng. Kanchra Isha-langulya. 
Tsjeru-vallel. Rheed. Mal. 10, t. 28. , 
An annual ; a native of moist, or marshy ground, Suen 
as rice fields. Flowering time, the cold season. 
Stems or branches many, creeping, round, pretty smooth, 
from one to four feet long. Leaves alternate, short-petiol- 
ed, lanceolate, entire, smooth. Flowers, numerous about 
the extremities of the branchlets, or solitary, opposite 
to the leaves or between them; colour a deep bright 
“blue. Calyx one-leaved, divided to near the bottom 
‘into five, long, narrow, pointed, hairy permanent di- 
visions, Corol five-petalled, longer than the calyx. Fila- 
ments shorter than the corol. Anthers sagitate. Styles 
_ two, spreading. F2G5 8 Seo Si 
