LjjCopuS. DIANDRIA WONOOYNIA. 14& 



I found this delicate plant growing among rice in the vicinity of 

 Serampore during the rainy season. 



Root consisting of a few capillary simple and short fibres.— Scape 

 about six inches long, sometimes divided in two equal branches, when 

 fruit-bearing elongated and twining.— fVoaers froui fourtoeight, white 

 with a vellowish entire palate, very small on short alternate pedicels. 

 Calux permanent, of two orbicular segments, the uppermost larger 

 and concave. — Upper lip very short, linear erect, ending in two 

 tootiilets; lozcer lip ovate, larger. 5pz.'r almost twice as long as the 

 lower lip, conical. — Capsuce half hid in the calyx. 



LYCOPUS. Schreb. Gen. N. 44. 



Corol four-cleft, with one of the divisions emarginate. Stamina 

 distinct. Seeds four, retuse. 



1. L. diantJiera. Biich. 



Annual, erect, four-sided. Leaves petioled, rhomb-ovate, serrate. 

 Cali/x bilabiate. 



A native of Nepala ; from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the seeds 

 to this garden, (in 1803,) where the plants thrive during the cold 

 season, and blossom in March and April. 



Stems annual, straight, four-sided ; sides slightly grooved ; angles 

 somewhat hairy. Branches axillary, decussate, four-sided, &c. like 

 the stem ; height of the whole plant from one to two feet. — Leaves 

 opposite, petioled, declined, rhomb-ovate ; an teriour margins serrate, 

 dotted with minute, darker green glands imderneath, general length 

 about one inch, or less. — Racemes terminal. — jB;ac/e5 opposite, lan- 

 ceolate, one-flowered. — J7oae/s pedicelled, small, very pale pink, 

 almost white. — Ca/y.r bilabiate ; upper lip ascending, tridentate ; low- 

 er lip hiparute, and, defended with hair on the inside. — Corol ; tube 

 short, somewhat four-sided ; upper division of the border broad and 

 emarginate ; lateral two of the same length, but narrower and semi- 

 circular J under one large, and nearly round.— Filaments four, short, 

 in the angles of the tube of the corol — Anthers twin on the long fila- 



