Spermacoce, § TETRANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 371 
dary, numerous, pale pink, very small, crowded together into 
small round heads, on short peduncles, and pedicels, the whole 
forming little, proliferous, villous umbels, Jnvolucre and in- 
volucels annular, villous, from three to six-parted, Calyx, di- 
visions equal, acute, hairy. Corol funnel-shaped, hairy on the 
outside, and in the throat of the tube; divisions of the border 
recurved, Stamens protruded beyond the mouth of the corol. 
-Germ beneath, broad-turbinate. Style about as long as the 
tube of the corol, Stigma two-cleft, villous. Pericarp with 
two seeds, 
10.8. semierecta. R. 
._ Stem variously bent, but ascending, square. Branches 
brachiate, alternately smaller. Leaves ovate. Flowers in 
‘small, compact verticils, Stamens and style inclosed. oie psule 
turbinate, hairy, | 
A native, I suppose, of Sumatra, as the oe from; Sch 
this description is taken, sprung up in a bed, where earth 
from that Island had been thrown, and in one ve was shont 
a foot and a half high, ae 
The lower branches brachiate ; the superior often sec rt 
they are all very exactly four-sided with angles sharp and 
somewhat hispid; in other respects they are very smooth, 
Leaves opposite, with smaller ones in their axills, short-peti- 
oled,.. acuminate, entire, very slightly scabrous, particularly 
the margins, with nerves and veins on the underside, Conect- 
ing membrane divided into several filiform portions,.. F/ow- 
ers numerous, very smal), white, sessile, collected into small 
compact, round verticils. Corol, divisions of the borde 
bearded in the centre, Anthers within the tube. | 
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what Cnladc Flowers axillary, sessile, Stamens and style 
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