Cynoglossum, — PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA, | 457 
tles, and affixed to a conical receptacle, which has four corres) 
ponding concavities to receive the four seeds. Bee 
2. C. diffusum. R. 
Annual, diffuse, hairy. Leaves oblong, soft, hairy. | Flow- 
ers: — _ Stamens hid in the - Seeds scab- 
rous, © 
A native of Bingals ; appearing in gardens, anid on culti. 
vated land in the cold season, 
Stems diffuse, slender, clothed with stiff hairs; length from 
six to eighteen inches, Leaves alternate, the inferior ones 
petioled ; the superior ones sub-sesile, all entire, oblong, soft, 
and hairy. Flowers solitary, between the leaves, short-pe- 
duncled, small, white, with a tinge in the throat. Calyx 
longer than the tube, hairy. Corol with the tube gibbous, 
its mouth contracted with five broad, emarginate scales, Sta- 
mens hid in the belly of the tube. — Seeds, or arils obovate, - 
ope pee naan on —— aaa 
3. ¢. wieifotina: R. Lae 
Annual, diffuse. Leaves. bifarious, oblong hairy, Flowers 
solitary between the leaves; eorol half the length of the 
calyx; seeds round, rough, 
A native of the eastern parts of Bengal ; flowering time the 
cold season ; soon after which the seed ripens, and the. see 
perish, 
‘Root annual. Stem none, but several, ramous, slender, 
round, hairy branches spread on the ground. Leaves alter- 
nate; ‘bifarious, sub-sessile, elliptic, hairy nudqnnetlens cual 
an inch in length, and about half that in breadth, Flowers — 
smiley; or between the leaves, oceania; lita; 
mall, of a pale whitish blue, Calyx five-leaved ; leaf 
letsilkcticsblats, hairy on the outside, nearly twice as large 
as the corol. Corol, the tube very short, the throat contract- 
ed, by ‘five emarginate scales alternate with the stamens, - 
Filaments short ; anthers large, half hid in the mouth of the — 
