Gratiola. diandria monogynia. 139 



A native of cultivated land over various parts of India, ap- 

 pearing - in the rainy season. 



10. G. oppositifolia. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 105. Co- 

 rom. pi. 2. N. 155. 



Annual, sub-erect. Lower leaves opposite to each other or 

 to a one-flowered peduncle, lanceolate, serrate. Capsules 

 linear. 



G. oppositifolia. Retz. Obs. t. 4. N. 5. 



A native of moist pasture ground. Flowering* in the wet 

 season. 



Stems several, nearly erect, ramous, four-sided, smooth ; 

 from three to six inches high. Leaves sessile, opposite to each 

 other, or a flower, linear-lanceolate, senate, smooth. Pedun- 

 cles leaf-opposed, or opposite to each other, short, horizontal, 

 clubbed. Bractes solitary, embracing the insertion of the 

 peduncle. Flowers small, blue. Anthers two pairs united. 

 Sterile jilaments small, white. Capsules linear, twice the 

 length of the calyx. 



11. G. serrata. R. 



Annual, erect, four-sided, smooth. Leaves opposite, stem- 

 clasping, oblong, smooth, most acutely serrate. Racemes in 

 the division of the branches, and tenninal, long-peduncled. 

 Capsules linear, diverging - . 



Beng. Bhoomi-nim. 



Pee-tsjanga-pusplim. Rheed. Mai. 9. t. 59. is exceeding- 

 ly like this plant, though quoted by Linnaeus for Ruellia an- 

 iipoda, which 1 have never met with, if this be not it. 



A native of Bengal, and in flower during the rains. 



Root annual. Stem erect, four-sided, ramous, smooth, from 

 two to eight inches high. Leaves opposite, sessile, or stem- 

 clasping, oblong, very obtuse, most acutely serrate ; smooth 

 on both sides. Racemes solitary, tenninal, and also from the 

 divisions of the plant, on long, four-sided peduncles. Flow- 

 ers opposite,short-pedicelled, verging, pink-coloured. Bractes 



