Hedyotis. tetrandrta monogynia. 365 



nal, sub-globular, throughout trichotomous, all the ramifica- 

 tions a little villous. Bractes linear, spreading. Calyx four- 

 toothed. Corol with the tube longer than the calyx, its mouth 

 and the base of the four linear segments of the borders of the 

 corol very woolly. Germ oval, two-celled; ovula numerous, 

 attached to the sub-globular receptacles, rising from the mid- 

 dle of the partition. Style longer than the corol ; apex 

 woolly; stigma two-cleft. Capsule ovate, two-celled, many- 

 seeded. 



4. H. lineata. R. 



Annual, diffuse, hairy. Leaves sessile, ventricose lanceolar, 

 longitudinally marked with simple, parallel veins. Peduncles 

 axillary, two or three together, pretty long, many-flowered. 

 Capsula round, hairy. 



Native of Chittagong, where it blossoms during the rains. 



5. II. Auricularia. Linn. 



Sub-dichotomous, diffuse, adscending, villous. Leaves 

 lanceolate, sub-sessile, smooth above, many-nerved below. 

 Flowers sub-sessile, densely whorled. Capsules villous. 



Mariguti. Rheed. Hart. Mai. x. pi. 63. t. 32. 



A native of Silhet and Nepal, where the plant blossoms 

 during the hot and rainy seasons. From the former place 

 the plant was introduced in 1815 in the Botanic garden near 

 Calcutta, by Mr. Smith. 



Beng. Muttia-lata. 



Root fibrous. Stem short, woody, divided into many slen- 

 der generally once or twice dichotomous roundish or slightly 

 four-sided branches, measuring a foot in length, densely vil- 

 lous, sometimes rooting at the base. Leaves lanceolate, taper- 

 ing and acute at both ends, an inch or an inch and a half 

 long, even above, with several oblique villous nerves under- 

 neath, margins scabrous; pairs approximate and exceeding 

 in length their interstices. Petioles very short, the uppermost 

 somewhat longer, hispid, uniting into a membranaceous, vil- 



