90 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Streptium. 
below, to lanceolate near the apex, where they are sterile, all — 
are acute aid hairy. Flowers numerous, small, of a beauti- _ : 
fal light purple, inodorous, Calya small, margin ciliate,and 
obscurely divided. Drupe globular, smooth, purple, the size 
of asmall pea, Nut turbinate, two-celled, with a seed in 
each ; no empty cell in this species, 
STREPTIUM. 
_ Calyx five-toothed. Corol funnel-shaped ; tube cmed 
border five-parted, equal. Germ superior, four-celled ; cells 
one-seeded ; attachment inferior, two-partible. Mud wrap- 
ped in the permanent calyx. Seed solitary. Embryo erect, 
no perisperi. ) : ae 
S. asperum. Corom. phi ii. ”. 146. 
- Tortula aspera. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. iii, 359. 
Verbena Forskaelei. Vahl, Symbol, iii, 
Teling. Obeera. — 
I have only found it in the vicinity of Samulkota, on the 
terraces and old walls of Pagodas. In flower agg the wet 
and cold seasons, while young it looks well. — 
Stem woody, perennial, short, irregular; branches: oppo- 
site, exactly four-sided, rough ; the height of the whole plant 
from two to four feet. Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate, — 
serrate, covered with stiff hooked hairs; from one to three 
inches long, and from one to two broad, —_ Petioles channel- 
led, rough, Racemes terminal, or in the cleft of the exterior 
branchlets, erect, very long ; rachis four-sided, rough, Brac-— 
tes solitary, one-flowered. Flowers towards the bottom of 
the raceme, remote, above approximated, small, white, Caly® 
one-leaved, oblong, gibbous, five-angled, five-grooved, five- 
toothed, covered with stiff, hooked hairs, permanent, closing: 
and enlarging with the fruit. which it entirely covers, Corel; 
tube cylindric, rather longer than the calyx, twisted neat 
the apex, a Jittle curved ; border five-parted ; divisions ob0- 
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