Hedyotis. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 365 
nal, diijeglobiitar; throughout trichotomous, al} the ramifica- 
‘tions a little villous.’ Bractes linear, spreading. Calyx four: 
toothed, Corol with the tube longer than the calyx, its mouth 
and the base of the four linear segments of the borders of the 
corol very woolly, Germ oval, tid colbell ovula namerous, 
attached to the sub-globular receptacles, rising from the mid+ 
dle of the partition. Style longer than the corol ; apea 
woolly; stigma two-cleft. — ovate, two-celled, many- 
seeded. ’ 
4. Hi, lineata. R. 
Annual, diffuse, hairy. Leaves sessile, ventricose lanceolar, 
longitudinally marked with simple, parallel veins. Peduneles 
axillary, two or three together, pretty long, many-flowered: 
Capsula round, hairy. Ce EE Ie 
Native of Chittagong, where it blossoms during the rains. 
5. H. Auricularia, Linn, ; . 
Sub-dichotomous, diffuse, soe villous. Leaves 
lanceolate, sub-sessile, smooth above; many-nerved below. 
Flowers sub-sessile, densely whorled. Capsules villous. 
~ Mariguti. Rheed. Hort, Mal. x. pl. 63. t. 32. 
_ A native of Silhet and Nepal, where the plant blossoms 
during the hot and rainy seasons, From the former place 
the plant was introduced in 1815 in the Botanic garden near 
Calcutta, by Mr. Smyth, 
Beng. Muttia-lata. * 
| Root fibrous. . Stem short, woody, divided into many slen- oe 
der generally once or twice dichotomous roundish or-slightly) 
our-si ded:branches, er are gg ee msely = E 
Sepals afaocsd dng half 
, 1 even above, vith several obliqna) villous nerves under- 
neath; margins scabrous; pairs approximate and exceeding 
 inmlength their: interstices. " Petioles very short, the uppermost: 
_ somewhat longer, hispid; uniting into a. membranaceous, vil) 
