S7f TETRANORiA MONOGYNiA. Spermucocs. 



former place by Mr. Assistant Surgeon William Jack, froiVi the lat= 

 ter by Mr. Gardner. Flowering time the hot season. 



Nepala name Goshega-soa- 



Obs. I take this opportunity of correcting an error which I com- 

 mitted in the description referred to above by calling my plant H. 

 stricta : a name which had already previously been given to a dif- 

 ferent species from Sierra Leone, by Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees's new 

 Cyclopaedia, and which therefore 1 have altered to gracilis. 



SPERMACOCE. Schreb. Gen. N. 155. 



Ca?yx four-leaved. Coro^ funnel-shaped. Ca/JSM/e inferior, crown- 

 ed, two-celled, two-valved. Seed solitary, longitudinally furrowed 

 on the inside. Embrijo erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 



1 . S. sumatrensis. Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. Willd i. 571. Retz. Obs. iv. 23. 



Shrubby, erect, four-sided. Leaves lanceolate, remote, shoi^-petio- 

 led. Coiymbs terminal, decompound. Capsule opening from the 

 base. 



A native of moist places amongst the Circar mountains. Flowers 

 duiing the rainy season. 



Stemerect, woolly, obsole'ely four-sided. Branches opposite, four- 

 sided. — Leaves opposite, spreading, short-petioled, lanceolate, dow- 

 ny; size very various. — Stipules connecting, membranous, two or 

 three-toothed. — Umbel compound, terminal. — Flowers white, very 

 small. — Ca/j// four-leaved.— Co;oZ with short, gibbous tube. — Cao- 

 sule oblong, two-celled, two-valved, two-partible from the base. — 



Seed solitary. 



Obs. This species ought to be carefully compared with Hedt/otis 

 frulicosa, Retz. Obs. ii. 8 ; and the capsule of the same species in 

 Linn. Flor. Zeyl. N. 63. should be well examined.* The stipules 

 seem the chief difference. In my plant they are always a lacerated 

 connecting membrane. 



* The reader is requested to coiiiuU the observation on this plant in Reel's 

 Cyclopaedia, Vol, xvii-- N- VV. 



