336 ONAGRARLE. Lowi 
1041. (2) J. villosa (Lam. :) herbaceous, perennial, erect, more or less 
pubescent or slightly villous: leaves from broadly lanceolate to linear-acumi- 
nated, tapering at the base into a short petiole: flowers almost sessile, with 
two bracteoles often foliaceous but sometimes minute and scale-like between 
the base and the middle of the calyx-tube: calyx-lobes 4 or sometimes 5, 
broadly lanceolate or ovate, 3-5-nerved, much shorter than the roundish 
obovate petals: capsule nearly cylindrical, elongated, tapering at the base 
into a shortish pedicel.—2; leaves lanceolate, acuminated, pubescent or 
hairy: capsule about the length of the leaves.— Wight ! cat. n. 1086,—J. vil- 
losa, Lam. enc. meth. 3. p. 331; DC. prod. 3. p. 57; Spr. syst. 2. p. 231; 
Wall.! L. n. 6333.—J. suffruticosa, Linn.; DC. prod. l e. p. 58; Roxb. in 
E. I. C. mus. tab. 645 ; Wall.! L. n. 6334.—J. fruticosa, DC. l e. p. 57.—J. 
exaltata, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 401.—Epilobium fruticosum, Lour.—Rheed. 
Mai. 2. t. 50.—8 ; leaves linear-acuminated, slightly pubescent, about twice 
the length of the capsules.—Wight ! cat. n. 1087. 
Of our second variety we have only one specimen before us, which pre- 
vents our ascertaining whether or not it be sufficiently constant to constitute 
a distinct species: it is closely allied to J. angustifolia, Lam., and to J. 
Blumeana, DC. 
II. LUDWIGIA. Roxb.; DC. 
Calyx-tube cylindrical or rarely turbinate, cohering with the ovary its 
"whole length : limb divided down to the ovary into 4 or occasionally 5 ulti- 
mately deciduous segments. Petals 4-5. Stamens 4-5, opposite to the lobes 
of the calyx. Apex of the ovary or base of the style pyramidal, 4-5-angled, 
4-5-furrowed ; furrows glabrous, opposite to the stamens ; angles alternating; 
villous. Style filiform from the top of the pyramidal base. Stigma capitate, 
4-5-furrowed or lobed. Capsule turbinate or much elongated, 4-5-celled, 
with as many valves, surmounted with the pyramidal base of the style. Seeds 
very numerous.—Branched herbaceous plants. Leaves alternate, narrow- 
lanceolate, shortly petioled, quite entire. Flowers axillary, almost sessile, 
yellow, with two bracteoles at the base of the calyx. 
_1042. (1) L. parviflora (Roxb.:) erect, annual, glabrous, branched: branches 
diffuse : leaves lanceolate ; lower ones often, and the upper sometimes oblong: 
flowers shortly pedicellate : capsule obsoletely 4-5-angled, equally thick, in 
length about 2-3 times its breadth, much shorter than the leaves: 
crowded in several rows in each cell, attached to a projecting placenta 
Rowb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 419; (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 440; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1940; 
DC. prod. 3. p. 59; Spr. syst. 1. p. 445; Wight ! cat. n. 1088.—L. jussiseoides, 
herb. Madr.! ; Wall.! L. n. 6335 (not Lam.)—L. diffusa, Ham. in Linn, s0c- 
trans. 14. p. 301 ; Wall. L. ñ. 6336.—L. perennis, Linn. sp. p. 113 ; DC. |. € 
—L. oppositifolia, Linn. syst. veg. p. 135.—L. Zeylanica, Pers. y Spr. syst. b 
p. 444.— Jussima caryophyllea, Lam. ene. meth. 3. p. 331.—Rheed. Mal. ?. 
t. 49; Pluk. t. 203. f. 5. 1 
The description given by Linnsus in the Flora Zeylanica, n. 66, 1s suffi- 
ciently in accordance with some of our specimens ; but the character $ foliis 
oppositis ) afterwards given in the Species Plantarum, and we think by a ms- 
take of the printer, has been continued by most succeeding botanists. E 
have retained the specific name given by Roxburgh, because all the olde 
ones have been accompanied by erroneous characters, except that of Lamarck, 
who, however, places it in Jussiæa. Some specimens before us have 
Zeylanica ; in others they are much broader, resembling Rheede's na 
while in a few they are oblong and obtuse, as in Plukenet: so many m ple. 4 
mediate states, however, are to be observed, that we have found it impos u$ 
to separate them as distinct varieties. Eo 
leaves very narrow, corresponding to Linnzus' observations in the Flora oA 
