Ammannia. ‘TETRANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 425, 
ome <Sitoni 7 nave da yebodai rs 
AMMANNIA. Sole. . gen.  N, 208. 5 sid ated 
Corol four-petalled, or none ; when. present inserted. in the 
plaited mouth of the calyx ahidhd is from four to eight-tooth- 
ed. Capsule superior, from one to four-celled, Seeds numer- 
ous. he a 6 é pred anghd 
a: A. robin ifolia. Buch, Ae 
~ Diffuse. Leaves opposite, round, welds hs Flowers eniaed, 
petals oval, Capsule four-lobed. 
Plants sent from Lukshmee-poora and Malda, where they 
are indigenous, flowered in the Botanic garden during g the 
cold season of 1797. ‘i 
Stems several, creeping, with ascending apices, an 
smooth, and succulent; whole plant spreading from six to 
eight inches. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, orbicular, en- 
tire, smooth, and succulent. Spikes terminal and axillary, 
the terminal often compound, Bractes opposite; exterior 
cordate; interior lanceolate, and often very small, one-flow- 
ered, Flowers numerous, small, pink-coloured. Calya four- 
parted, divisions obtuse, — Corol of four, large, oval, sessile, 
pink-coloured withering petals. Capsule hid in the bottom 
of the remaining calyx, and corol, four-lobed. Seeds numer- 
ouk  * ’ ‘a Dite 
» 2. A, octandra, Linn, wis plied. Willd. 679. Roxb. Cotton, 
ple 2. N.183, y ia 
ancl erect, bearhiate, four-sided. Se ae sessile, nar= 
Beene peduncles from two to three flowered ; some 
pa Y Bie Sp AERP pe 1%, chou ahs 
_ Annual, a native: of moist pinnet ising in the ring 
ond cold seasons. 
_ Root fibrous. ean cigar Scunaddeds aa ian. one 
to three feet high. Branches numerous, canesiatyied, and, 
like the stem. ‘Leaves opposite, sessile, linearly-sagittatey 
