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Spermacoce. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIAy 369 
opposite, and like the stems, whole height about three feet, 
Leaves opposite, sub- sessile, lanceolate, smooth, entire; from 
one,to three inches long. Connecting membrane divaded into 
several subulate segments. Corymbs terminal, compound 
and decompound. Flowers numerous, large, pale pink. 
Bractes small, and at the divisions of the corymbs chiefly. 
Calyx one of the four segments large, all the segments per- 
manent. Corol funnel-shaped, before expansion the apex is 
large, with four horns; after expansion these projections form 
a conical knob under the apex of each segment. Mouth of 
the tube bearded. Filaments short; anthers linear, just 
within the tube. Germ two-celled, with one seed in each, 
attached to the top of the partition. Style longer than the tube 
of the corol, Stigma bifid. Seyments revolute. Capsule ob- 
long, crowned, two-celled, two-valved ; valves keeled on the 
back. Seed solitary, longitudinally ¢ grooved on the middle 
of the inside, 
Obs. It may be readily distinguished from S. teres (the 
only species known to me that it can be mistaken for) by its 
~ smoothness, greater size of the flowers, and the segments of 
their borders being enlarged: with a conic ksob on the outside 
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* s. Sabie: R. Rian 
Erect, ramous, hairy. eaves short-petioled, lanceolate, 
acuminate; linear. Stipules triangular and shaggy. Heads 
axillary on trichotomous short peduncles Stamina protrud- 
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A native of the Moluccas, The lineate, hairy, very acute, 
tapering leaves, long shaggy triangular stipule, and small 
_peduncled heads of axillary flowers, readily distinguish this 
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