422 TKTRANDRTA MONOGYN1A. Oldenlajldta. 



eels four-sided. Capsules turbinate, smooth; receptacle club- 

 bed, free, affixed by the small end into the partition near its 

 base. 



3. O. paniculata. Burm. Fl. Ind. 38. t. 15./. 1. 

 Biennial, creeping-. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Peduncles 



three-flowered, or three times that number. 



Introduced into the Botanic garden from the Moluccas, in 

 1798, where it blossoms "the greatest part of the year. 



Stems none; but numerous, diffuse, four-sided, smooth, ra- 

 mous branches, spread close on the ground in every direction, 

 and strike root from their joints, their general length about 

 twelve inches. Leaves opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 

 smooth, and of a firm thick texture, the largest about an inch 

 long. Connecting membrane with. subulate divisions. Pedun- 

 cles axillary, and terminal, longer than the leaves, smooth, 

 four-sided, with generally three, small, white flowers, on pe- 

 dicels of unequal length. Corol ; tube gibbous, mouth shut 

 with fine white hairs. Stamens, in the belly of the tube below 

 the hairs which shut its mouth. Stamina entire. 



4. O. crystalline/,. R. 



Annual, very ramous. Pedicels solitary, shorter than the 

 leaves, generally two-flowered. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, ob- 

 long, underneath marked with crystalline dots. 



Beng. Punk?. 



Hedyotis pumila. Linn, sp. pi ed. Willd. i. 566. 



A small, very ramous, diffuse, annual plant, a native of 

 Bengal ; appearing in the rainy season. 



Stem none. Branches numerous, diffuse, about six inches 

 long, somewhat four-sided. Leaves opposite, approximate, 

 sessile, oblong, and lanceolate-oblong, smooth and marked 

 with beautiful crystalline specks underneath, length about 

 half or three quarters of an inch. Peduncles, from within the 

 stipulary sheaths, about half the length of the leaves, gener- 

 ally bearing two, minute white flowers on their proper pedi- 



