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. points, but so small that they scarcely communicate a sensible 
viscidity to the touch ; beneath, the veins are softly pubescent : 
—cauline leaves sessile, cordate, waved, embracing the stem. 
Racemes terminal. Pedicels spreading, a little longer than 
the sessile, lanceolate, acutely dentate bracteas, which 
embrace their base. Calyx 5-partite, persistent, viscid, 
pubescent, dentate on the edges, obtuse. Corolla yellow, 
rotate; the segments orbicular. Stamens didynamous, attach- 
ed to the base of the corolla. Filaments very hairy, the 
shorter pair incurved: Anthers reniform, l-celled, opening 
along! the convex edge. Pistil: Germen superior: Style 
filiform: Stigma capitate, hairy. Capsule 2-celled: recep- 
tacle in each cell reniform, large, fixed to the partition and . 
covered on all sides with numerous small rough seeds. 
This plant is frequent in moist sandy soils on the banks of 
rivers, and flowers during the greater part of the cool and 
rainy seasons. I at first referred it to the C. Cretica ; but this 
it cannot be, judging from the character, nor yet the Arctu- 
rus to which Sprengel refers the Coromandeliana of Vahl, 
and to which it has a closer affinity. My specimens of the 
Arcturus (so named by König) are perfectly glabrous, the 
radical leaves laxly lyrato-pinnate, the leaflets varying in 
form from obovate to linear-lanceolate, which is also the case 
with the lower leaves of the, stem: above, the leaves are 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, finely serrato-dentate :—the pedun- 
cles are about twice the length of the bracteas and the 
segments of the calyx are entire. W. & A. 
Tas. CXXIX. Fig 1, Calyx laid open, showing the pistil. 
JF. 2, Corolla laid open. f. 3, Section of the germen. f. 4, 
Seed, magnified. 
STREPTIUM ASPERUM. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOsPERMIA. Nat. Ord. VERBENACEE, Juss. 
Calyx 5-dentatus, demum inflatus persistens fructumque 
includens. Corolla hypocrateriformis: tubo gracili, elongato, 
