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of the size of a filbert. Although I have examined it in all 
stages, yet | have never been able to fix upon any deter- 
mined internal structure; there are a number of convoluted 
lamina throughout, between these are lodged innumerable, 
most minute seeds, like those of the Orchidee. 
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BUCHNERA. Schreb. gen. N. 1035. « 
Calyx five-cleft. Tube of the corol long; border from 
four to five-cleft, unequal. Capsule two-celled, two-valved; 
seeds numerous, | 
1. B. asiatica, Willd. 337. 
Erect, annual, four-sided. Leaves sessile, opposite, ‘and 
alternate, linear, scabrous, entire. Segments of the lower lip _ 
of the corol oval, and rather acute. 
Kalu polapen. Rheed. Mal. ix. t. 66. 
A small erect annual, a native of pasture ground, or such 
eh been lately in culture, appearing and flowering during 
the wet season, 
Stem erect, from six to eighteen inches high, fucaiel 
scabrous. Branches one or two pairs, opposite. Leaves ses- 
sile; below opposite, above alternate, linear, erect, after- 
wards a little recurved, scabrous, about an inch long and one- 
eighth broad, those towards the extremities are very small, 
which makes them (the extremities) more like long spikes, 
_ than the extremities of the branches. /Jowers axillary, soli- 
tary, sessile, of a middling size, white. Branches two, press- 
ing on the calyx, laterally lanceolate. Calyx five-parted, 
striated, scabrous. Corol ; tube rather longer than the calyx, 
_ curved at the apex; the border flat, two-lipped; upper lip 
broad, emarginate ; the under one three-parted, Capsule co-_ 
vered by the calyx, Opening» at the apex; siete cO- 
lumnar. ty 
. There is a. variety arith h excealingty bright cai | ower. 
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