13S DIANDRIC MONOGYNIA. Grottola, 



Leaves petioled^ ovate. Flozoer amongst the verticils of spines, sub- 

 sessile. 



Hind. Cms tool ff. 



Found by Dr. Hunter in the vicinity of Ongein, in seed and flow- 

 er in March. 



G RAT 10 LA. Schreb. Geji. N. 37. 



Coro/ one-petalled, inegtilar. Sterile filaments two, affixed to the 

 lower lip of the corol. Anthers double, and connected. Capsules 

 superior, two-celled, two-valved. Seeds numerous. 



1. G. amara. R. 



Annual (in Bengal), creeping. Leaves petioled, cordate, serrate. 

 Peduncles axillary, four to six flowered. Calyx four-leaved, exterior 

 pair cordate, inner subulate, apices of the sterile filaments free. 

 Capsule ovate, hid in the calyx. 



Caranga amara. Vahl. Enum. rol. 1. 100. 



Serratula amara. Rumph. amb. 5. p. 459' t. 170. f. 1. which has 

 been quoted by mistake, 1 presume, for Scutellaria vidica. 



This pretty plant has been accidentally introduced into the Bota- 

 nic Garden, among spice and other plants from the Moluccas, 

 Flowering time the cold season. 



Root fibrous. — Stems and branches creeping, with their extremi- 

 ties sub-erect, four-sided, coloured, smooth. — Leaves opposite pe- 

 tioled, cordate, deeply serrate, somewhat rugose, of a soft texture^ 

 but free of pubescence, general length about two inches. — Pedun" 

 cles axillary, solitary, rather longer than the petioles, supporting at 

 their extremities, two or three pairs, of opposite pedicelled flowers- 

 — Bractes small, oblong, one under the insertion of each pedicel, 

 — Calyx of two pair of opposite leaflets; exterior pair large, cor- 

 date, often notched ; the upper one larger, and incumbent over the 

 rest of the calyx, and all the corol except the under lip, inner or la- 

 teral pair, linear-lanceolate, and much smaller than th« exterior 



