;{()(> THTRANDR1A MONOGYNIA. SperUUlCOCe. 



loos, stipulary membrane, which is terminated by long- hispid 

 cilia?. Flowers small, crowded into sessile, globose, axillary, 

 copious, villous, verticils, concealing-, but scarcely longer 

 than the petioles and rendering their stipules reHexed. Laci- 

 nite of the calyx linear. Tube of the corolla scarcely longer 

 than the calyx. Lacinia lanceolar, acute. Throat pubeS- 

 cent. Stamina exserted, erect, shorter than the limb of the 

 corolla, with pubescent -.filaments. Style barbate. Stiyma 

 oblong. Capsule small, round, slightly furrowed. 



SPERMACOCE. Schreb. gen. N. loo. 

 Calyx four-leaved. Coral funnel-shaped. Capsule inferior, 

 crowned, two-celled, two-valved. Seed solitary, longitudi- 

 nally furrowed on the inside. Embryo erect, and furnished 

 with a perisperm. 



1. S. sumatrensis. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. 571. Retz. Obs. 

 iv. 23. 



Shrubby, erect, four-sided. Leaves lanceolate, remote, 

 short-pet ioled. Corymbs terminal, decompound. Capsule 

 opening- from the base. 



A native of moist places amongst the Circar mountains. 

 Flowers during the rainy season. 



Stem erect, woolly, obsoletely four-sidetl. Branches op- 

 posite, four-sided. Leaves opposite, spreading-, short-peti- 

 oled, lanceolate, downy ; size very various. Stipules connect- 

 ing, membranous, two or three-toothed. Umbel compound, 

 terminal. Flowers white, very small. Calyx four-leaved. 

 Corol with short, gibbous tube. Capsule oblong-, two-celled, 

 two-valved, two-partible from the base. Seed solitary. 



Obs. This species ought to be carefully compared with 

 Hedyolis frulicosa, Rezt. Obs. ii. 8; and the capsule of the 

 same species in Linn. Flor. Zeyl. JV*. 63. should be well ex- 

 amined. The stipules seem the chief difference. In my plant 

 they are always a lacerated connecting- membrane. 



