Ludwigia, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, - 419 
A, F, nitida, Roxb. | | His Sea , 
Shrubby. Branchlets, petioles and ribs armed. ides 
two or three pairs, with a terminal odd one, oblong, lucid, 
remotely gland-crenate, apex a long and emarginate. 
Racemes*axillary. 
«Tcheum-tsew of the Chinese. " 
“Introduced: from Canton into the Botanic garden by Mr, 4 
W. Kerr in 1812, and. in January of the follawing: year one 
of the plants blossomed abundantly. 
- The flowers as in the other species, but the pistillum is is 
three or four-lobed, each appearing to end in a recurved 
style with a two-lobed stigma, The shrub, therefore, ap- 
proaches nearer than any of the preceding species to Zan- 
thoxylon. 
' LUDWIGIA. Schreb. gen. N. 204. hihi 
Calyx four-parted, Corol four-petalled. Capeule pied: 
foutaltied, formicellosy Seeds 1 numerous, 
hs kL Sess R. | 
Annual, branches diffuse. "Leaves alternate, lanceolate, 
short-petioled, smooth, Flowers axillary, sessile. Bi stor 
pepe obsoletely four-sided. 
« A small, ramous plant, a native of Bengal ; flowering time 
the rainy season ; seed ripe about October. 
__, Root ramous, ante, Stem short, round, in young silawis 
erect. Branches many, diffuse, slightly striated ; the whole 
plant of a dark-ferruginous colour. Leaves alternate, short- 
petioled, lanceolate, entire, smooth, length from one to three 
inches, . Flowers axillary, small, sessile, The leaves about | 
the ends of the branches are so small and crowded, as. to make 
the extremities of the branchlets appear like leaty spikes, 
Bractes, a most minute one on each side of the insertion of 
each flower. Calyx, the divisions taper to most acute points, 
and equal the oblong eee Capsule beneath, linear, obso- 
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