140 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIAL Gratiola, 
lanceolate, the lower pair of the racemes dentate. Calyx 
parted half way. Corol, upper lip small, incumbent... Cap- 
sules lanceolate, twice the length of the calyx. 
12. G, reptans. R. : 
Annual, creeping. Leaves opposite, from oblong to round, 
serrate, Racemes terminal, Sterile filaments free. _— 
linear, 
A native of the Moluccas; from thence introduced into oh 
Botanic garden, where it. blossoms during the rains. 
Stems and branches round, smooth, ad creeping close to: 
the earth, with short, (about-an inch long) floriferous, erect 
shoots, Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, on the creeping shoots 
round, on the erect flower-bearing ones oblong; with rounded: 
apices ; all serrate, and smooth on both sides. Peduneles or ra~ 
cemes terminal, on the short, erect shoots, bearing several, 
approximate pairs of short-pedicelled, opposite, large, pale. 
bluish pink flowers. Bractes opposite, one-flowered, ovate. 
Calyx five-leaved. Corol with an enlarged throat, and rin- 
gent border; upper lip of one pale coloured segment ; un- 
der lip broad, deeper coloured, and three-parted, Sterile fi-. 
laments large, yellow, clavate, with the apices a little reeurv- 
ed, perfectly free. Stigma of two, thin, broad, round lobes.» 
Capsule linear, as long as the calyx, oe setae ) 
‘13.6. parviflora, R. Corom. pl. N. 208,» a Bic! 
2 |, erect, ramous, Leaves sessile, ovate-oblong, Ste. ae 
nawedl sertate, Flowers’ long-pedubeled, solitary: — A 
filaments two-cleft. Capsules oblong. | z 
Stems erect, ramous, four-sided ; with their Stiin acute, 
about six inches high, Leaves opposite, sessile, ovate-oblong, — 
slightly serrate, acute, when large three-nerved. Flowers — i 
axillary, ‘solitary, fong-pédunicled, small. Ihave seensome = 
la with white flowers, and others with blue ee ae 
