370 tetrandria monogynia. Spermacoce. 



lanceolate, entire, smooth. Flowers axillary and terminal, ses- 

 sile, crowded. 



A very small species, less than six inches high, a native of 

 the Island of Honimoa. 



8. S. stricta. Linn, sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 573. 



Annual, erect, four-sided. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate. 

 Flowers in dense, globular, axillary verticils. Capsules scab- 

 rous, gaping- at the apex. 



Teling. Sook?/kad«. 



An annual, a native of wet rice fields, appears and flowers 

 during the rainy season. 



Stem erect, branchy, four-sided, about a foot high, angles 

 acute and scabrous. Branches decussated, stem-like, but 

 slenderer. Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, entire, a little 

 scabrous. Stipule, a connecting membrane, ciliate. Verticils 

 globular. Involucres leaf-like. Flowers most numerous, 

 minute, white. Tube cylindric. Stigma globular. Capsule 

 two-celled, opening at the apex. Seed solitary. 



9. S. costaia. R. 



Diffuse, very downy. Leaves broad-lanceolate, or oblong, 

 ribbed. Flowers crowded on little axillary, proliferous um- 

 bellets. Stamina? protruded. 



Hedyotis Auricularia. Linn. 



Supposed to be a native of the Moluccas, as the plant 

 sprung up in the Botanic garden, from some earth brought 

 with the spice plants from those Islands in 1800. It blossoms 

 and ripens its seed during the greatest part of the year. 



Root biennial, if not perennial. Stems or rather branches 

 many, diffuse, round, from one to three feet long", clothed 

 with long, soft diverging hairs. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, 

 broad-lanceolate, entire, ribbed with numerous large, simple, 

 parallel veins ; downy on both sides, from two to three inches 

 long, and about one broad ; connecting membrane with gener- 

 ally three, unequal, slender, subulate divisions. Flowers axil- 



