.i/'> TETRANDKIA MONOGYNIA. J^cu^v.L. 



introduced in 1815 in the Botanic Garden near Calcutta, by Mr» 

 Smith. 



Benn-. Multia-Iata. 



Root fibrous. — Stem short, woody, divided into many slender ge- 

 nerally once or twice dichotomous roundish or slightly four-sided 

 branches, measuring a foot in length, densely villous sometimes 

 rooting at the base. — Leaves lanceolate, tapering and acute at both 

 ends, an inch or an inch and a half long, even above, with several 

 oblique villous nerves underneath, margins scabrous ; pairs approxi* 

 mate and exceeding in length their interstices. — Petiols very short, 

 the uppermost somewhat longer, hispid, uniting into a membrana- 

 ceous, villous, stipulary membrane, which is terminated by long his^ 

 pid ciliae. — Flowers small, crowded into sessile, globose, axillary, co- 

 pious, villous, verticils, concealing, but scarcely longer than the peti- 

 ch and rendering their stipules reflexed. — Lacinia of the calyx li- 

 near. — Tube of the corolla scarcely longer than the calyx. — Lacinics 

 lanceolar acute. — Throat pubescent. — Stamina exserted, erect, 

 shorter tluui the limb of the corolla, with pubescent^/a/«e?;^s. — Sti/le 

 barbate. — Stigma oblong. — Capsule small, round, slightly furrowed. 

 — Dissepiment entire. — Seeds many, three-cornered, shining, brown. 

 Obs. I took this plant to be H. nervosa, Lam. or hirsuta of the 

 same author, until I discovered that Sir J. E. Smith had proposed 

 them as varieties only of H. Auricularia ; Rees's Cyclop, in loco. — 

 The branchy dichotomous habit of my plant, its hairy petiols and 

 capsules are w anting in them all and may perhaps be deemed suffi- 

 cient to form it into a new species, which I am unwilling at present 

 to add to this difficult genus. It differs very little, perhaps only in the 

 rounded branches from the species described by Roxburgh as Ret- 

 zius's hispida. 



I have not cited Burman*s Valerianella palustris, Thes. Zeyl. 227. 

 p. 108./. 1. because it does not well agree with Rheede's or my 

 plant— N. VV. 



6. H. ulmijolia. 11 all. 



Decumbent, hispid with sliort spreading dense haira. Leaves 



