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426 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Ammannia, 
smooth, marginsa little revolute, from one to two inches long, 
and about a quarter of an inch broad. — Peduncies axillary, 
very short, from two to three-flowered. Flowers small, 
colour a beautiful bright red. Bractes minute. Calyx and 
corol as in the genus, Filaments as long as the corol. ene 
thers incumbent. . 
3. A. multiflora, A 
Erect, four-sided, ramous branches simple, Leaves sub-. 
sagittate, stem-clasping. Peduncles from three to seven- 
flowered. Petals large. Capsule one-celled. aaa 
A native ‘of open lands about: Calcutta, annual, from six 
to twelve inches in height, appearing in the wet and cold 
seasons, 
© Stem straight, four-sided ; Satine ; sides convex. 
Branches cross-armed, Leaves opposite, decussate, horizontal, 
sessile, linear with enlarged cordate, stem-clasping base, size 
very various, Peduneles axillary, almost always solitary, 
about as long as the sinaller leaves, generally three-flowered, 
though in the luxuriant plants there are often two or three; 
with one between, the lateral flowers have pretty large long’ pe- 
dicels, Calyx as in the family..Petals large,roundish, red, Cap- 
oe a globular, aflixed at the —— 
so A werclontevia. R. 
sil, lnceolr "Flower ly. Corol nove. na cena a 
celled. 
Beng: Bundalhissel 
Teiing. Aghundra-pakoo. a 
- An annual species ; found in wet eiltivuedl gril dung 
the riny and cold seasons. 
_. Stem erect, from six:to thirty-six inches high, abaetely 
on: sery: arash ; ivenchee; below ee 
