370 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Spermacoce. 
lanceolate, entire, smooth, Flowers axillary and terminal, ses- 
sile, crowded. : 
» A very small species, less than six inches high, a native of ° 
the Island of Honimoa. 
8. S. stricta, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i, 573. 
Annual, erect, four-sided. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate. 
Flowers in dense, globular, axillary verticils. Capsules scab- - 
rous, gaping at the apex. 
Teling. Sookukada. 
An annual, a native of wet rice fields, appears and flowers 
during the rainy season. : 
_ Stem erect, branchy,; four-sided, about a foot high, angles 
acute and scabrous, » Branches decussated, stem-like, but 
slenderer, Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, entire, a little 
scabrous, Stipule, a connecting membrane, ciliate. Vertictls 
globular. Involucres leaflike. Flowers most numerous, 
minute, white. Tube cylindric. Stigma globular. Capsule 
two-celled, opening at the apex. Seed solitary. 
9.8. costata. R. , 
Diffuse, very downy. Leaves broad-lanceolate, or oblong, 
ribbed. Flowers crowded on little exiliery, ssaspige um- 
bellets, Stamine protruded. — 
_ Hedyotis Auricularia, Linn. agve 
Supposed to be a native of the Mibwesens as the wpteit 
sprung up in” ‘the Botanic garden, from some earth brought 
with the spice plants from those Islands in 1800. It blossoms 
and ripens its seed during the greatest part of the year. 
Root biennial, if not perennial, Stems or rather branches 
many, diffuse, round, from one to three feet long, clothed 
with long, soft diverging hairs. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, 
broad-lanceolate, entire, ribbed with numerous large, simple, . 
parallel veins ; downy on both sides, from two to three inches 
éng,and about one broad ; ; connecting membrane with gener- 
ally three, unequal, seniees subulate divisions, Flowers axil- | 
