Capraria. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 93 
sessile, oblong, serrate. Flowers axillary, solitary, sub-ses- 
sile, 
Pola tsjira. Dheal. Mail. ix, t. 78, 
This plant I have only found in rills of fresh water among 
’ the Circar mountains, It is annual witha creeping root, send- 
ing up many shoots, or ramous stems of from one to two feet. 
high ; they are round, smooth and jointed, and as thick as 
the little finger; all the joints under water emit many fibrous © 
roots, or multifid, filiform leaves, 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, serrate, a little 
rugose, sprinkled on the under side with innumerable, glan- 
dular dots, about two and a half inches long, and one broad. 
Flowers axillary, génerally solitary, short-peduncled, pur- 
ple. Calyx ; upper divisions largest, incumbent, Corol cam- 
_ panulate; upper lip broader and emarginate. NVectary, a 
yellow ring surrounding the base of the germ. 
It is delightfully aromatic, and has a sweet pleasant taste. 
2. C. diffusa, R. 
Suffruticose, diffuse. Leaves opposite, petioled, lanceolar, 
obtuse, entire, Spikes axillarys and ale i shorter than the 
leaves. 
From Pegue it was intredneid by, ia tie Mr, ee Corey, 
into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where. it. flowers nd 
ripens its seeds during the whole of the dry season. |. +1, 
Siem scarcely any, but numerous, opposite, diffuse irene 
and their sub-divisions, spread close to the ground, all are 
round, and the younger parts harsh with very short hair; 
whole spread of the plant about two feet high, Leaves op- 
posite, short-petioled, lanceolar, obtuse, entire; from one — 
to three inches long, and under one in breadth, Spikes, 
or racemes, for the flowers are short-pedicelled, axillary, 
and terminal, clammy, villous, much shorter than the leaves. 
: Flowers small, purple, opposite, and alternate. Bractes li- 
