146 DIANDRIA MONOGYMA. Boa hilar id. 



Stem annual, erect, ramous, four-sided, four-grooved, dow- 

 ny; from one to two feet high. Branches opposite, cross- 

 anned, ascending. Leaves opposite, petioled, running down 

 on the petioles, oblong-, irregularly crennlate, waved, rugose, 

 a little downy ; two or three inches long. Racemes terminal, 

 long-, verticelled. Verticils Bix-nowered, six-bracted. Flotv- 

 ers small, pale purple. Stamens as in the genus, with the 

 rudiments of two additional sterile filaments between the 

 large pair. Germ elevated on a large fleshy receptacle. 

 This plant is slightly aromatic. 



3. S. lanata. R. 



Herbaceous, four-sided, villous. Leaves sessile, ovate-ob- 

 lon&r, entire, woody. Flowers verticillate. 



Found by Colonel llardwieke on the most elevated moun- 

 tain near Advvaanee, on the road from Hurdwar to Sirinagur. 

 It is his S. inter/rij'olia. See Asiatic Researches, vol. (!. 

 p. 349. 



Obs. Salvia rosea of Vahl, is the same as 8. coccinea. an 

 American plant, which though in a manner naturalized here, 

 lias no right to a place in this Flora. 



BOERHAAVIA. Schreb. gen. X. 13. 

 Calyx inferior, gibbous, entire, permanent, and becoming 

 an envelope for the seed. Germ one-celled ; ovula single, 

 erect. Corol campanulate, inserted on the calyx. Seed so- 

 litary. Embryo conduplicate, with inferior radicle, and cen- 

 tral perisperm. 



1. B. proenmbens. Herb. Banks. 



Root fusiform, perennial. Brandies procumbent, smooth. 

 Leaves variously cordate, covered with a silver coloured 

 pellicle underneath. Flowers terminal, in long-peduncled 

 heads. Stamina three. 



Sans. Pooiutniuva, Shotttghnee. 



