Nama. pentandria digynia. 73 



A small, erect, ramous annual, a native of sandy, salt 

 lands near the sea. It flowers during the wet season. 



Stem nearly erect, from six to eight inches high, hairy. 

 Branches numerous, ascending, alternate, hairy. Leaves 

 alternate, very numerous, sessile, the lower, or larger cor- 

 date ; the upper or smaller ovate, and lanceolate ; all are 

 hairy, soft, and very small. Flowers terminal, sessile, 

 small, numerous, white. Bractes like the leaves. Calyx 

 as in C. cretica. Corol ; f?<6e campanulate. Segments re- 

 volute, outside of their apices hairy, withering. Anthers 

 oblong, incumbent. Germ, its apex woolly. Stigma large, 

 globular. Capsules four-seeded. 



NAM A. Schreh. gen. n. 444. 



CaZi/a- five-leaved. Coro? rotate, five-parted. Capsules, 

 superior, one-celled, two-valved, receptacle columnar. 

 Seeds numerous. 



N. Zeylanica Linn. sp. pi. 327. 



Annual, creeping. Leaves lanceolate. Hydrola zeyla- 

 nica. Willd, 1. 1327. Vahl symb. 2. 46. 



Sans. Langali. 



Beng. Kanchra Isha-langwlya. 



Tsjeru-vallel. Rheed. Mai 10. t. 28. 



An annual ; a native of moist, or marshy ground, such 

 as rice fields. Flowering time, the cold season. 



Stems or branches many, creeping, round, pretty smooth, 

 from one to four feet long. Leaves alternate, short-petiol- 

 ed, lanceolate, entire, smooth. Flowers, numerous about 

 the extremities of the branchlets, or solitary, opposite 

 to the leaves or between them ; colour a deep bright 

 blue. Calyx one-leaved, divided to near the bottom 

 into five, long, narrow, pointed, hairy permanent di- 

 visions. Corol five-petalled, longer than the calyx. Fila. 

 me/ifs shorter than the corol. J w^/ters sagitate. Styles 

 two, spreading. 



