Lepidagathis, _DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Se 
two-parted, one division much longer and hooked. Capsule 
linear, as long as the calyx. Seeds numerous. 
23. R. suffruticosa. R. 
Suffruticose, erect, hairy. Leaves short-petioled, lanceo- 
late, obtuse, ciliate. Flowers terminal, solitary, sessile, Corol 
with a long slender tube, and sub-regular border, Capsules 
oblong, few-seeded. 
A small, erect, ramous under shrub, of about one foot in. 
height, with large, terminal, white flowers, which appear : 
during the ae season ; Jin nase at sun-set, and dropping in 
the morning. 
A native Mets aes of Dinagepore, & &e. Sra 
LEPIDAGATHIS, Wiild. 
Calyx of two opposite, unequal pairs of leaflets, ringent ; 
the upper lip small, the wnder one three-parted. | Anthers 
twin, Capsule two-celled, two-valved, bursting with elastici- 
ty — to the partition. | 
L, cristata. Willd; iii. p. 400, 
Perennial, diffuse. Leaves ipipetitis HBT Ianceoate 
Inflorescense, a dense head close to the crown of the root. 
The generic character is but little removed from Barleria, 
but the habit of the plant is very different. It is a native of 
elevated, dry, barren ground, all over the coast of Coroman- 
del. Flowering time, the rainy and cold season. 
Root perennial. Stem scarcely any; but several, long, slen- 
der, opposite, diffuse, four-sided, ramous, smooth branghes, 
spreading close on the ground, and often striking root. Leaves 
opposite, sessile, lanceolate, entire, sometimes villous or even 
hairy, and scabrous; from one to three inches long and half 
an inch or less broad. Inflorescense in large, variously shap-— 
ed, densely imbricated heads, close to. the earth, ‘nestahe 
