Oldinlandii TEtRANoRifA monogynia. • 44^ 



cannot be so ; as this plant has uot the smallest resemblance to OL 

 denlandia repcns, now iJentella.* 



6. O. hifora, Um. Sp. PL ed. IViUd. i. C76. 



Peduncles solitarv, tuo-llowertd, ilioHer ihan the n^iiow Uuct- 

 clar sessile leaves. 



iSans. '%^^^~il^, Kshetra pwrputee. 



lietig. Kliet-papiaa. 



Autinhiimm hiimile, &c. Burm. Zsyl. 22. ?. 1 1 ; good. 



Annuiil ; native of inL>st parts of India. A small wt»uk struggling. 

 delicate plaut, appealing in the lainy season. 



7. O. herbacea, U. 



Erect, ioLir-sided, dichotonious. Leaves liuear-laoceolate. Tp- 

 duncles in pairs fioni alternate axils, onc-Howered. 



lledyotis herbdcca, Linn Sp. Vl. cd. IVilld. i. bQ^. 



Teli/ig- \ eii-uella-venioo. 



A native of road sides nnder thin- bushes, 8cc. rioweriog time the 

 lainy season. 



Stem eicci, four-sided, smooth, short, ramous. Branches always 

 two-cleft; from six to t«cnly-fonr inches liigh. — Leaves opposite, 

 sessile, hnear-lunceolate, ajn^eading, smooth. — Stipules, connecting 

 membrane, linely-toolhed. — Peduncles a.\illary, always two from the 

 f mall axils, with abranchlet, or the rudinients of one between them, 

 round^ nearly as long as the leaves, one-flowered. — Capsule smooth. 



8. O. ramo'sa, 11. 



Dififuse, lamous. Leaves nanow-lauceolate. Peduncles axillary, 

 with from one to several llowers. 



A native of Pegu^ from ihencc introduced into this Garden by Mr. 

 r.. Carey , wheie it bl<;ssoms and ripens its seed during the rains,, 

 and the caily part of tfie cool season. 



• Conf. II. capensis in Rees's C^elopedia. The leader is also lefeired to the hjs- 

 iots of Xh'i ^trnib Iledi 'tis iu. that ucik fjt an elucidation of beveraiof tLc above 

 epccies of O'dfn.'andiu.-— N. W. 



