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420 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNTA. © Ludwigia. 
letely four-sided, smooth, four-valved. Seeds coloured, nu- 
merous, very small, 
2. L. prostrata, R. icf 
Lower branches creeping, Leaves alternate, petioled, lan- 
ceolar. Flowers axillary, sessile. Capsule filiform, with one 
row of seeds in each cell, attached immediately to the axis, 
A native of Pegu, from thence introduced into this gar- 
den, where it blossoms and ripens its seed during the rainy: 
season, - iB} 
Root annual, Stem leaning much to one side, from one to’ 
two feet long. Branches numerous, the lower ones longer 
than the stem, spreading flat on the ground and striking 
root, smooth, striated, generally coloured with red. | Leaves’ 
alternate, short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, smooth, size vari- 
ous, the largest from three to five inches long. Flowers axil- 
lary, sessile, fed one to several on the same axill, very small, 
much elevated on the four-sided peduncle-like g germ. Petals 
Janceolar, longer than the calyx, yellow. Filaments tour, 
length of the style. Anthers roundish, two-lobed, always after 
expansion found adhering to the large clammy stigma, Cap-— 
sules slender, sub-filiform, more or less curved, smooth, four- 
cornered ; angles rounded, sides grooved ; four-celled. Seeds 
oval, minute, pink-coloured, disposed in one vertical row and 
attached immediately to the axis, without the intervention wt 
any: thing. like a receptacle. = a fa 
. This species is so much like my LES pitt ape as not 
Ste didi pueey except by attending to the germ, or cap- 
sule, ‘In that plant it is shorter, thicker, always straight, and 
with numerous crowded seeds in each cell, attached to a 
projecting receptacle, as in L. alternifolia, Gert. Carp. i. 
158. ¢. 31. In this there is only one’ vertical row in ws cell 
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