Menyanthes, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNITA, 459 
of the whole plant in a good soil from four to six, or éven 
eight feet. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, lanceolate, entire, 
harsh, with a few stiff, scattered hairs, Floral leaves termi- 
nal, alternate, ‘small, sessile, cordate-lanceolate. Peduncles 
_sub-solitary, one-flowered, drooping, sub-alternate, longer 
than the floral leaves, round, hairy. Bractes no other than 
the floral leaves. Flowers cernuous, pale blue. Calyx five- 
leaved ; deaflets adhering slightly near the base, and at their 
dBpsotis forming five chang ridges, but without the posterior 
horns of Borago indica ; nor, like that plant, does it shut over 
the seed, but becomes expanded. Corol ; divisions of the bor- 
der broad-cordate, with their apices sub-filiform. Filaments 
short, and thick, inserted on the mouth of the tube of the co- 
rol. Anthers sagittate, woolly, each ending in a large twist- 
ed thread ; sides firmly united into a conical dome over the — 
stigma, ‘Seeds four, ovate, smooth on the: pane: — on 
_ the pe where lodged in the ——— 
Be B, spinulosa, Re 
Annual, diffuse, Richetinindie; pee iil nem cosmiipe tiie 
et All the deaves alternate, sessile, oblong, scabrous, Pe- 
— leaf-opposed, one-flowered. 
A native of Bengal, appearing in the cold season. 
MENYANTHES. Schreb. gen. oo 263. 
_ -| Calyx five-parted. Corol monopetalous, five-parted. Cate 
sais — one-celled, Seeds many, inserted on parietal 
shi My-orietaiag tt blero B 105. swe ie 
~~ ilies sigan Leaves round-corate, repand. Mee. 
tary triple; stigma two-cleft, 
Cumuda, Asiat. Res. iv. 254. Pie 
‘0 Tsjeroea-citambel. Rheed, Mal, 11. p. 57. t, 29. 
