372 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Spermacoce, 
»Tardavel. Rheed. Hort. Mal. 9. p. 149. t. 76. The leaves 
however are a little too sharp for our Coromandel plant...» 
Stem short and generally annual. Lower branches oppo- 
site, superior alternate, round, coloured, very hairy, some- 
what scabrous, weak, spreading and variously curved. 
Leaves opposite, sessile, round, obovate, or nearly oval, some- 
what acute; hairy on both sides, edges recurved and more 
or less curled. Connecting stipule with three, four, or five fi- 
liform processes. Flowers axillary, generally in pairs, though 
often several together, but expanding in succession, sessile, 
small, purple. Calyz, the four divisions or in this species ra- 
ther leaflets, lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube of the co- 
rol. Corol sub-campanulate, half four-cleft. Stamens as long 
as the segments of the corol. Style as long as the stamens. 
‘Stigmas two, two-lobed, segments revolute. Capsile oval, 
two-celled. Partition membranaceous. Seed solitary, oval, 
equally obtuse at each end, 
12. S. articularis. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 72. 
Annual, diffuse, four-sided. Leaves opposite, sessile, broad- 
lanceolate; connecting stipules from three to five-bristled. 
‘Flowers verticelled, Corol infundibuliform, four times _ 
er than the calyx. Stamens and style erect. 
A native of ‘the sandy soil on the coast of Coromandel 
near the sea, and in flower the greatest part of the year. — 
Root generally annual, Stem scarcely any, but many dif- 
fuse straggling, four-sided, alternate, hispid branches from 
one to two feet in Tength. Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, 
ea little hairy ; veins simple, from one to two inches oe and 
half an inch broad. Connecting stipules cup-shaped, with 
from three to six bristles from each side. Flowers axillary, 
sessile, two, three, or four, expanding in succession from the — 
same axill. Calyx with slender, linear’ divisions. Corol 
infundibuliform, | Tube slender, three or four times longer 
‘hin te nee) ‘Stamens erect. ae 
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