Otdenlandia. t£trai*j!»ria mokogtnia. 4i% 



Annual, a native of the borders of rice lands and moist places^ 

 appears and flowers dunog the rainy season. 



at^iiis several, erect, wUh few branches, four-sided, smooth, about 

 a toot or eighteen inches high. — Leaves oppesite, sub-sessile, oblong, 

 smooth, entire, succulent, about two inches long. — Stipules, couuect- 

 ing membrane broad, toothed. — Umbels terminal, few flowered. — 

 Jt lowers while, small. Pedicels four-sided. — Capsules turbinate, 

 smooth J receptacle clubbed, free, afli.Ked by the small cud into the 

 partition near its base. 



3. O.paukulata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 38. t. 15./. 1. 



Biennial, creeping. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Peduncles three- 

 flowered, or three times that number. 



Introduced into tlte Botanic Garden from the Moluccas, in 179S.. 

 where it blossoms the greatest part of the year. 



Stems none ,• but numerous difl^use, four-sided, smooth, ramous 

 branches, spread close on the ground in every direction, and strike 

 root from their joints, their general length about twelve inches. — 

 leaves opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, smooth, and of a firm 

 thick texture, the largest about an inch long. Connecting membrane 

 with subulate divisions. Peduncles axillary, and terminal, longer 

 than the leaves, smooth, four-sided, with generally three, small, 

 white flowersyon pedicels of unequal length.— Coro/,- Tube gibbous, 

 n)outh shut with hue white hairs. — Stamens, in the belly of the tube 

 below the hairs which shut its mouth. — Stamina entire. 



4. O. crystalHna, R. 



Annual, vt- ry ramous. Pedicels solitary, shorter than the leaves, 

 generally two-flowered. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, obi-.ng, under 

 neath marked with crystalline dotts. 



Bens.. P?'nk?. 



Hedyotis pumila, Linn. Sp. PL ed. Ifitld. i. oQo. 



A small, very ramous, diff'use, annual plant, a native ot Bengal ; 



ap^K aring in the rainy season. 



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