366 _ TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Spermacoce, 
lous, stipulary membrane, which is terminated by long hispid 
ciliee, Flowers small, crowded into sessile, globose, axillary, 
copious, villous, verticils, concealing, but scarcely. longer 
than the petioles and rendering their stipules reflexed. Laci- © 
nie of the calyx linear. Tube of the corolla scarcely longer 
than the calyx. Lacinie lanceolar, acute. Throat pubes- 
cent, Stamina exserted, erect, shorter than the limb of the . 
corolla, with pubescent filaments. | Style barbate. Stigma 
oblong. Capsule small, round, slightly furrowed. 
Pd 
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| SPERMACOCE. Schreb. gen. N. 135. 
Calyee four-leaved. Corol funnel-shaped. Capsule inferior, 
ebandl two-celled, two-valved. Seed solitary, longitudi- 
nally furrowed on the inside, ’mbryo erect, and farnishetd 
with a perisperm. e opis “ 
1. S. sumairensis, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd, 571 apnea Obs. 
iv. 23. 
Shrubby, erect, four-sided. Leaves’ lanceolate, bbmsbit 
short-petioled, Corymbs terminal, decompound, — 
opening from the base, 
A native of moist places amongst the — mountains. 
Flowers during the rainy season, petty 
_ Siem erect, woolly, obsoletely four-sided, ssaouhel op- 
posite, four-sided. Leaves opposite, “spreading, ee 
oled, lanceolate, downy ; size very various. » 
ing, membranous, two or- three-toothed. Umbel cumnpoth . 
terminal, Flowers white, very small. \ Calyx four-leavéd.’ 
Corol with short, gibbous tube. Capsule oblong, two-celled, 
two-valved, two-partible from the base. Seed solitary. gue 
Obs, This species ought to be carefully compared with’ 
Hedyotis fruticosa, Rezt. Obs. ii, 8; andthe capsule of the! 
Sanit, Species in Linn, Flor, Zeyl. N. 63. <— be wel pole ey 
amined, eterna ened: tn ny pee 
