Sphenoclea, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, ia 
Stems near the root creeping, above erect, ramous, three- 
sided, smooth, the whole plant is from six to twelve inches 
high. Leaves sub-sessile, cordate, grossly serrate, smooth. 
‘Peduncles axillary, solitary, erect, length of the leaves or 
_ longer, two-bracted at the base. Flowers small, blue. Corol 
inserted in the mouth of the calyx. 
3. L. radicans. Willd. spec. i, 948, 
Annual, creeping, smooth, Leaves sessile, lanceolate, re- 
motely serrulate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, twice the 
length of the leaves, one-flowered. 
Accidentally introduced from China, into the Botanic gar- 
den at Calcutta, where it blossoms freely during the rains. 
Our plants are but small, very ramous, spreading over the 
soil, and striking root at every branchlet. The flowers are 
large for the size of the plant, pink-coloured; segments of 
the corolla equal, unilateral, and narrow-lanceolate, with two 
green glands under the two middle sinuses, opposite to the 
long, green, two-lobed stigma. 
SPHENOCLEA. Gert. carp. i. 113. tab. 24. 
Calyx five-parted. Corol one-petalled. Capsule inferior, 
two-celled. Seeds numerous, 
1, S. zeylanica, Willd, spec. i, 927. : 
Pongati. Rheed, Mal.ii. 47, t. 24. 
Sphenoclea Pongatium. Lamarck, 
Gertnera Pangati. Retz. Obs, vi. p. 24. 
Beng. Jeel-mureech. o 
Teling. Neeroo-pipli. 3 
An erect ppavals ; a native of watery. places, < Focen i. 
the wet season. 
Root fibrous, al Stem erect, conn: ramous, smooth, 
glossy, piped. Branches alternate, ascending. Leaves al- 
ternate, short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, tender, smooth, from 
