Oldentandia. ‘TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 423 
cels, Corol, mouth of the tube wma dps much com: 
pressed laterally. 
Obs. It is readily dintigraiatil ae 0. biflora a ede 
neral habit of the plant, this being short, diffuse, very ra- 
mous, with obléng or lanceolate-oblong leaves, while ‘the 
other is slender with long straggling branches, and. linear- 
lanceolate leaves, I place less confidence in the crystalline 
appearance of the underside of the leaves, as soil, &c, — 
remove it, 
. By diffusa, Re 
- Annual, round, flaccid. Leaves sessile, linoes: Jencaphabls 
acute, Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered; capsules 
sub-globular, smooth. riches site 
» Hed yotis diffusa, Linn, sp. pl. ed, Wilid,i. 566... 
Found, growing in boxes, which were sent, vith Nat 
sins to the Botanic garden at: Calcutta from Banda. - 
Root ramous, annual, Stems short, flaccid, seaceliie, 
round, most slightly scabrous, from six to twelve inches long. 
Leaves opposite, sessile, linear-lanceolate, acute, smooth on 
both sides, Connecting meuibrane, from entire to many-cleft, 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, four times shorter than the leaves, 
one-flowered. Flowers pretty large, pure white, smooth, 
Stigma deeply two-cleft., Capsule roundish, smooth... |. 
_ Obs, The Linnzean definition of O, capensis would lead one 
to imagiue this to be that plant; but the observation simillima 
O. repenti, at capsula glabra, in the Plant. p..127, convinces 
me it camnot be so; as this plant has not.the-smallest reser 
aeyee to Oldenlendia popes now Delica radars 
ee 0. ideas pice al eds ‘Willd. i676. Piucd ge 
 Peduncles solitary, two-flowered, short than the narrow 
— leaves, 
Sans. ered 
© Beng. Khet-papura, ~_ 
.Antirrhinum htmile, &c. ile Zeyl. 92, t. u. good. _ 
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