Gratiola, DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 139 
» A native of cultivated land over various parts of India, ap- 
pearing: in the rainy season. ) (ad betas; 
10. G. oppositifolia, Linn, sp. pl, ed. Willd, 1. 105, Co- 
rom. pl, 2. N. 155. 
. Annual, sub-erect. Lower leaves opposite to each other or 
to a one-flowéred peduncle, lanceolate, serrate, Ceaaler 
linear, | 
.G. oppositifolia, Retz. Obs. t. 4. N. 5. 
A native of moist pasture ground, Flowering in the wet 
season, 
» Stems several, nearly erect, ramous, four-sided, smooth ; 
from three to six inches high. Leaves sessile, opposite to each 
other, or a flower, linear-lanceolate, serrate, smooth, , Pedun- 
cles leaf-opposed, or opposite to each other, short, horizontal, 
clubbed. | Bractes solitary, embracing the insertion of the. 
peduncle. Flowers small, blue. _Anthers two pairs united, 
Sterile ‘filaments small, white. Capsules linear, twice the 
—- pec : ee 
pra silent faapeided: satin. plate opposite, stem- 
clasping, oblong, smooth, most acutely serrate. Racemes in 
the division of the branches, and terminal, noe patency: 
Capsules linear, diverging. eid 
. Beng. Bhoomz-nim. 
-Pee-tsjanga-puspum. Rheed. Mal. § 9. t. 59. is eesien 
ly like this plant, though quoted by Linnzeus for Ruellia an-. 
tipoda, which I have never met with, if this be not it, 
. A native of Bengal, and in flower during the rains... 
» Root annual, Stem erect, four-sided, ramous, smooth, from. 
two to eight inches high. | Leaves opposite, sessile, or stem- 
