‘Spermacoce, ‘TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA,, 367 
_ Knoxia corymbosa, Linn, sp, pl. ed. Willd. i. p.582, which 
he considérs as Geriner’s K, stricta, appears to me to be 
this plant. Indeed the two genera Spermacoce and Knoxia 
differ so little from one another as to induce me to think one 
of them mighighe: spared, | 
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_ Shrubby, erect, ahd: villous. edie opposite, remote, 
Ra scclate: entire, villous. Corymbs terminal, decompound, 
_ alternate ; divisions becoming spikes when in seed, Stamens 
erect, but hid in hairs. Style twice the length of the corol. 
Knoxia umbellata, Banks. Herb. 
_ Found by Dr. Buchanan in the woods of Koorg, from 
whence he sent the seed to the Botanic. garden, where the 
plants thrive well, and blossom during the rainy season, 
Stem erect, perennial, round, while young villous. Branches 
opposite, a little inflected, round and villous, height of the 
whole plant about three feet. Leaves opposite, short-petiol- 
ed, lanceolate, downy, entire ; length from two to four inches 
high... ( : samleneds with. several erect, filiform di- 
Visions ; . when, they, accompany the divisions of the inflores- 
cence, they are more numerous, and may be called an involu- 
cre. Corymbs terminal, brachiate, with the ultimate divisions 
lengthened into short spikes by the time the seeds are ripe. 
Corol, mouth of the tube shut with much long white hair, 
which entirely conceals the large, erect anthers lodged. 
amongst it, Style erect. Stigma two-cleft with divisions 
ins plate, 2 
Obs, This has much the habit of Hodgetts frac, but 
e tube of the corol is smoo ] ied heer here cylin- 
dric, and shut with helis; ; finally the capsule is there biparti- 
ble, opening from, the base, with oblong brown seed, in wee e 
