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is filiform, and the ftigma is entire : the four 

 feeds are uncovered, fmall, and round. The 

 plant lies on the ground, and has the appear- 

 ance of ground-ivy {Qlecoma hederaced): the 

 root is fibrous : ihzflalk is quadrangular, fome- 

 what rough, ramofe : the branches are com- 

 pofite, and fland at the top : ihefiowers grow 

 on fhort peduncles, commonly by pairs : the 

 braclaz are fmall, lanceolated, oval : the leaves 

 are oppoilte, cordated, oval, crenated, petio- 

 lated, pilofe, except the fmall leaves coming 

 from the corners of the greater ones, which 

 are kidney-fhaped. I found in a fliady place 

 no more than two fmgle plants of this kind. 

 The Chinefe call it 'Tim-gam-fa* 



Hedyotis berbacea? the calyx is quadrifid, 

 fhort, with pointed, refle&ed fegments : the 

 corolla is monopetalous : the tube is cylindrical, 

 very fhort : the limbus is quinquefid, cylindri- 

 cal below, bearded in the infide, with equal 

 reflected Iacinice : the toux filaments are fhorter 

 than the corolla, bearded, and reft on the in- 

 cifions between the Iacinice : the anthcra are 

 of equal breadth, of the length of the fila- 

 ments > erect, firaple: the germ'en is almoft 

 round, and below the corolla : the filylus is fili- 

 form, bearded, longer than xhccorolla ; the fig- 



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