364 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Hediyotis. 
Capsule inferior, two-celled, many-seeded, Receptucles ad- 
hering to the partition their whole length. Hmbryo centri- * 
me and furnished with a perisperm. | 
ii H, hispida. Retz. Oba, Botwiv. p- 23. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 
i, 565... 
_ Diffuse, four-sided, rooting at the joints. Leaves dusiies 
lanceolate, with hispid margins. Flowers axillary, crowded, 
It sprung up and blossomed in December in the Botanic 
garden, amongst plants introduced from the Molictas in 
1798-9, ‘ 
Stem none, but sexvecal square, creeping ieatahices witli 
their floriferous extremities ascending. Leaves opposite, 
sub-sessile, lanceolate; margins hisiils and entire, sniodth, 
from two to three inches long ; the connecting membrane di- 
vided into many subulate portions. Flowers axillary, sessile, © 
small, white. Capsule roundish, two-celled... Seeds numér- 
“ae. eg 
EL, geniculata, R, 
Weak, straggling, jointed, round, ameail Joaeia guile 
onic, lanceplate, smooth. Flowers sub-verticelled, short- 
" Annatve of the Malay, Islands, 
lates Petia aa pe oR i ero heed 
the corol and apex of the style bearded. _ 
Gujee, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it isi 
nous; flowers and ripens its seed during the. hot au aaa 
seasons, 
cca 
> ans 
Stems and branches perennial, round, ualeill Leas. 
ze. ghost. petialed, broad-lanceolate, smooth, entire. Séi- 
2s cup-shaped, connecti iin Joven SHAS shoes . 
