^^■^ TETRANDKiA MONOGYNiA. Oldetilandid. 



stem uone ; branches imuierous, diffuse, about six inches long, 

 somevvliat four-sided — Leaves opposite, approximate, sessile ob- 

 long, and lanceolate-oblong, smooth and marked with beautiful crys- 

 talline •^;:>ecks underntath, length about half or three quarters of an 

 inch. — Veduncles, from within the stipulary sheaths, about half the^ 

 IcHgth of the leaves, generally bearing two minute, white tlowers on 

 their proper pedicels. — Corol, mouth of the tube hairy. — Capsu/es 

 much compressed laterally. 



0^5. It is readily distinguished from O. biflora by the general ha- 

 bit of the plant, this being short, diffuse, very ranious, with oblong 

 orlanceolate-;)bl()ng leaves, while the other i's slender with long strag- 

 gling branches, and linear-lanceolate leaves. 1 place less conhdence 

 in the crystalline appearance of the underside of iheleaves^ as soil,. 

 &c. may remove i't. 



t. O.dlffusa, R. 



Annual, round, ii'nccid. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, acute. 

 Fedun-cles axillary, solitary, one-flowered ; cajjsu'/ei,- sub-globular^ 

 i.inoo'.h. 



liedyoti.s difusa, linn. Sp. PL cd. Jfilld. i. 5dG. 



round growing in boxes, \vliich were sent with Nutmeg plants to 

 the Botanic Garden at Calcutta from Banda. 



jRoo^ramous, annual. — Stons short, flaccid, spreading, round, most 

 sligluly scabrous, from six to twelve inches lo))g- — Leares opposite, 

 i^essile, linear-lanceolate, acute, smooth on both sides. — Connecting 

 membrane, from entire to manv -cleft. — Peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 jour times shortei than the leaves, one-llowered. — i'Voa'e;\s pretty large, 

 l)ure white, smooth.— 6'^2^^//m deeply two-cleft. — Cfl/^sw/c roundish, 

 smooth. 



Obs. The Linnean definition of O. capensis would lead one to ima- 

 gine this to be that i>laiit ; but the observation iimillima O. rcpcnti, 

 at capsulv glabra^ in the SuppL Vlant. p. 127, couvinces me it 



