144 DIANDR1A MONOGYNIA. LyCOpilS. 



Beiiy. Chota-janjee. 



Found with the last described in stagnant water near Cal- 

 cutta, during the same seasons. A much smaller plant. 



Root of a few, scarcely compound, filiform fibres, and some 

 scattered, subulate nigrescent utriculi, with two or more fila- 

 ments from their apices, or mouths. Scape about three inches 

 high, filiform, naked, generally two-flowered. Flowers yel- 

 low, small. Calyx and corol as in the genus, with the faux 

 closed, and a horned, ascending nectary as long as the under 

 lip. Capsules globular, erect. 



LYCOPUS. Schrcb. gen. N. 44. 



Corol four-cleft, with one of the divisions emarginate. Sta- 

 mina distinct. Seeds four, retuse. 



1. L. dianthera. Bitch. 



Annual, erect, four-sided. Leaves petioled, rhomb-ovate, 

 serrate. Calyx bilabiate. 



A native of Nepak/; from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the 

 seeds to this garden, (in 1802,) where the plants thrive dur- 

 ing the cold season, and blossom in March and April. 



Stems annual, straight, four-sided ; sides slightly grooved ; 

 ano-les somewhat hairy. ^Branches axillary, decussate, four- 

 sided, &c. like the stem ; height of the whole plant from one 

 to two feet. Leaves opposite, petioled, declined, rhomb- 

 ovate ; anterior margins serrate, dotted with minute, darker 

 green glands underneath, general length about one inch, or 

 less. Racemes terminal. Bractes opposite, lanceolate, one- 

 flowered. Flowers pedicelled, small, very pale pink, almost 

 white. Calyx bilabiate; upper lip ascending, tridentate; 

 lower lip bipartite, and defended with hair on the inside. 

 Corol; tube short, somewhat four-sided $ upper division of 

 the border broad and emarginate; lateral two of the same 

 length, but narrower and semicircular; under one large, and 

 nearly round. Filaments four, short, in the angles of the 





