420 tetrandria MONOGYNTA. Ludurigia. 



letely four-sided, smooth, four-valved. Seeds coloured, nu- 

 merous, very small. 



2. L. prostrata. 1i. 



Lower branches creeping. Leaves alternate, petioled, lan- 

 ceolar. Flowers axillary, sessile. Capsule filiform, with one 

 row of seeds in each cell, attached immediately to the axis. 



A native of Pegu, from thence introduced into this gar- 

 den, where it blossoms and ripens its seed during the rainy 

 season. 



Root annual. Stem leaning much to one side, from one to 

 two feet lonsr. Branches numerous, the lower ones longer 

 than the stem, spreading flat on the ground and striking 

 root, smooth, striated, generally coloured with red. Leaves 

 alternate, short petioled, lanceolar, entire, smooth, size vari- 

 ous, the largest from three to five inches long. Flowers axil- 

 lary, sessile, from one to several on the same axill, very small, 

 much elevated on the four sided peduncle-like germ. Petals 

 lanceolar, longer than the calyx, yellow. Filaments four, 

 length of the style. Anthers roundish, two lobed, always after 

 expansion found adhering to the large clammy stigma. Cap- 

 sules slender, sub filiform, more or less curved, smooth, four- 

 cornered ; angles rounded, sides grooved ; four-celled. Seeds 

 oval, minute, pink coloured, disposed in one vertical row and 

 attached immediately to the axis, without the intervention of 

 any thing like a receptacle. 



Obs. This species is so much like my L. vat vi flora as not 

 to be distinguished, except by attending to the germ, or cap- 

 sule. In that plant it is shorter, thicker, always straight, and 

 with numerous crowded seeds in each cell, attached to a 

 projecting receptacle, as in L. alter nijblia, Ga?rt. Carp. i. 

 J58. t. 31! In this there is only one vertical row in each cell 

 attached to the axis. 



