Oldenlandia. tetrandria monogynia. 423 



eels. Carol, mouth of the tube hairy. Capsules much com- 

 pressed laterally. 



06.9. It is readily distinguished from O. bifora by the ge- 

 neral habit of the plant, this being: short, diffuse, very ra- 

 mous, with oblong or lanceolate-oblong leaves, while the 

 other is slender with long straggling branches, and linear- 

 lanceolate leaves. I place less confidence in the crystalline 

 appearance of the underside of the leaves, as soil, &c. may 

 remove it. 



5. diffusa. R. 



Annual, round, flaccid. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute. Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered; capsules 

 sub-globular, smooth. 



Hedyotis diffusa. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 566. 



Found, growing in boxes, which were sent with Nutmeg 

 plants to the Botanic garden at Calcutta from Banda. 



Root ranious, annual. Stents short, flaccid, spreading, 

 round, most slightly scabrous, from six to twelve inches long. 

 Leaves opposite, sessile, linear-lanceolate, acute, smooth on 

 both sides. Connecting membrane, from entire to many-cleft. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, four times shorter lh;in the leaves, 

 one -flowered. Flowers pretty large, pure white, smooth. 

 Stigma deeply two-cleft. Capsule roundish, smooth. 



Obs. The Linnsean definition of O.capensis would 1 sad one 

 to ima<> ine this to be that plant ; but the observation srmilfima 

 O. repenti, at capsula glabra, in the Plant, p. 127, convinces 

 me it cannot be so ; as this plant has not the smallest resem- 

 blance to Oldenlendia repens, now Dentella. 



6. O. biflora. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 676. 

 Peduncles solitary, two-flowered, shorter than the narrow 



lanceolar sessile leaves. 

 Satis. Kshetra-p?<rpwtee. 

 Beng. Khet-papwra. 

 Antirrhinum humile, &c. Burm. Zeyl. 22. f. 11. good. 



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