422 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA; Oldenlandia. 
eels four-sided, Capsules turbinate, smooth ; receptacle club- 
bed, free, affixed by the small end into the partition near its 
8.0. paniculata. Burm. Fl. Ind. 38. t. 15. f. Ve oo 
~ Biennial, creeping. _ Leaves ovate-lanceolate,. \Peduncles 
three-flowered, or three times that number, . riodsuhd 
_ Introduced into the Botanic garden from the Moluceas, in 
1798, where it blossoms the greatest part of the year. )-..o7 
Stems none; but numerous, diffuse, four-sided, smooth, ra- 
mous branches, spread close on the ground in every direction, 
and strike root from their joints, their general length about 
twelve inches. Leaves opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 
smooth, and of a firm thick texture, the largest about aninch 
long. Connecting membrane with subulate divisions. .Pedun- 
eles axillary, and terminal, longer than the leaves, smooth, 
four-sided, with generall y hired small, white flowers, on pe- 
dicels of unequal length. Corol ; tube gibbous, mouth shut 
with fine white hairs. Stamens, in the belly ofthe tube below 
the cnn which shut its mouth, . Stamina entire. voc 
e 4.0. sdaapiaitti R.. salt 
_ Annual, very ramous, Pedicels solitary, shorter ‘thie the 
leaves, generally two-fluwered. Leaves sessile, —— ; 
long, underneath marked with —* meres i 
pe Beng: Punki. > sheets tare -ed> 
a Lian, yesh Willd. 566, enters 
- Asmall, very ramous, diffuse, annual — ed 
Basel ; appearing in.the rainy. season. 
Stem: none. Branches numerous, diffuse, about six indies 
ie, somewhat four-sided. | Leaves opposite, approximate, 
‘sessile, oblong, and lanceolate-oblong, smooth and:marked 
with beautiful crystalline specks underneath, length about 
a See three quarters of an inch, Peduneles; from within. the: | 
prego ee about half coi PN SB ener-— 
