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and in general shorter than them ; in luxuriant plants com- 

 pound. Bractes opposite, small, lanceolate, hairy. Flowers 

 alternate, sessile, erect ; upper lip purple, the rest white. 

 Calyx of five, long, hairy, ensiform division*. Corol bilabi- 

 ate. Tube sub-cylindric ; upper lip erect, broad, and trifid; 

 under lip narrower, recurved, and bidentate. Filaments pro- 

 jecting-, straight, and about as long as the lips of the corol. 

 Anthers simple, united and bearded at the base. Capsule ob- 

 long, erect, hairy, length of the calyx. Seeds generally two 

 in each cell, oblong, rough. 



8. J. polysperma. R. 



Annual, creeping, round, jointed. Leaves sessile, lanceo- 

 late, downy. Spikes imbricated. Bractes three-fold, one- 

 flowered, woolly. Capsule with from twenty to thirty seeds. 



Beng. Chhota-im'cheta. 



It is a native of Bengal, and appears during the cold season 

 amongst grass, &c. in uncultivated places. 



Stems diffuse, or creeping, very ramous, six to twelve in- 

 ches long, round, jointed, a little downy. Leaves opposite, 

 sessile, lanceolate, entire, downy. Spikes terminal, and 

 axillary, imbricated with opposite, decussated, flowers, and 

 bractes. Flowers small, pale blue. Bractes three-fold, one- 

 flowered, the lower one a little broader than the two lateral, 

 Till are woolly. Calyx woolly. Capsules linear, containing 

 from twenty to thirty, small roundish seeds. 



9. J. acaulis. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 84. R. Corom. pi. 

 2. N. 127. 



Root perennial, stemless. Leaves radical, sessile, ovate- 

 oblong, crenate. Spikes ascending, imbricated. Corol rin- 

 gent. Capsules many-seeded. 



Elytraria crenata. Vahl. E num. plant. 1. IOC. 



Teling. Nella mura. 



Grows on pasture ground, generally under the shade o 

 trees. Flowering and seed time the wet and cold seasons. 



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