140 DIANBRIA MONOGTNrA. Grutiold. 



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Sterna seveva], nearly erect, ramous, four-sided, smooth ; from three 

 to six inches high. — Leaves sessile, opposite to each other, or a 

 flower, linear-lanceolate, serrate, smooth. — Peduncles leaf- opposed, 

 or opposite to each other, short, horizontal, clubbed. — Bractes so- 

 litary, embracing the insertion of the peduncle. — Flozcers small, 

 blue. — Anthers two pairs united. Sterile jilaments small, white. — 

 Capsules linear, twice the length of the calyx. 



11. G. serrata. R. 



Annual, erect, four-sided, smooth. Leaves opposite, stem clasp- 

 ing, oblong, smooth, most acutely serrate. Racemes in the division 

 of the branches, and terminal, long-peduncled. Capsules linear, di- 

 verging, 



Jjeug. 'BhoQvni-nim, 



Pee-tsjanga-puspum. Rheed. mal. 9* t. 59- is exceedingly like 

 this plant, though quoted by Linnceus for Ruellia antipoda, which I 

 have never met ^^ idi, if this be not it. 



A native of Bengal, and in^ flower during the rains. 



Root annual. — Stem erect, four-sided, ramous, smooth, from two 

 to eight inches high.— Lt'otes opposite, sessile, or stem-clasping, ob- 

 long, very obtuse, most acutely serrate ; smooth on bolii sides. — ■ 

 Racemes solitary, terminal, and also from the divisions of the plant, 

 on long, four-sided peduncles. — Flozvers opposite, short-pedicelled, 

 verging, pink-coloured. — /^rac^es lanceolate, the lower pair ot the ra- 

 cemes dentate. — Calijx parted half May. — Corol, upper lip small, 

 incumbent. — Capsules lanceolate, twice the length of tiie calyx. 



12. G. reptf..is. R. 



Annual, creeping. Leaves opposite, from oblong to round, ser- 

 rate. Racemes terminal. Sterile filaments free. Capsule linear. 



A native of the Moluccas ; from thence introduceii into the Bota- 

 nic Garden, where it blossoms during (he rains. 



Stems and branches round, smooth, and creeping close to the 

 earth, with short, (about an inch long) floriferous, erect shoots. — 

 Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, on the creeping shoots round, on the 



