144 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Lycopus, 
Beng. Chota-janjee. 
Found with the last described in stagnant water near Cal- — 
cutta, during the same seasons, A ged smaller plant. 
Root of a few, scarcely compound, filiform fibres, and some 
scattered, subulate nigrescent utriculi, with two or more fila- 
ments from their apices, or mouths, Scape about three inches 
high, filiform, naked, generally two-flowered, Flowers yel- 
low, small. Calya and corol as in the genus, with the faux 
closed, and a horned, ascending nectary as — as the under 
Hip... Capsules globular, erect. 
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LYCOPUS. Schreb. gen. N..AA. 
Corol four-cleft, with one of the divisions pee rine') Sta- 
mine distinct. .Seeds four, retuse. 
1. L. dianthera. Buch, : é 
Annual, erect, four-sided. Leaves petioled, sins bpothie. 
serrate. Calyx bilabiate. : 
A native of Nepala; from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the 
seeds to this garden, (in 1802,) where the plants thrive dur- 
ing the cold season, and blossom in March and April. 
_ Stems annual, straight, four-sided ; sides slightly erooved ; 
angles somewhat hairy. Branches. axillary, decussate, four- 
ideas &e. like the stem ; height of the whole plant 
gicin:ginada sds general length about one inch, or mee 
va Racemes terminal. | Bractes opposite, lanceolate, one- 
flowered. Flowers pedicelled, small, very pale pink, alinost ? 
white, Calyx bilabiate; upper lip ascending, tridentate; 
lower lip bipartite, and definded with hair on the inside. 
Corol; tube short, somewhat four-sided ; upper division of 
4 tborder. broad and emarginate ; lateral two of the same | 
