37j0 tetuandria monogtnia. Spermacoce, 



A very small species, less than six inches high, a native of the 

 Island of Honimoa. 



8. S. strida. Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. Willd. i. 573. 



Annual, erect, four-sided. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate ;j?oey- 

 ers in dense, globular, axillary verticils \ capsules scabrous, gaping 

 at the apex. 



Te/ing. Sookwkada. 



An annual, a nati\e of wet rice fields, appears and tl^)^vers during 

 the rainy season. ^ 



Stem erect, branchy, four-sided, about a foot high, angles acute and 

 scabrous. Branches decussated, stem-like, but slenderer. — Leaves 

 opposite, sessile, lanceolate, entire, a hltle scabrous. — Stipule, a con- 

 necting membrane, ciliate. — Verticils globular — Involucres leaf-like. 

 — Mowers most numerous, minute, white. — Tube cylindric. — Stigma 

 -^lobular. — Capsule, two-celled, opening at the apex. — Seed sohtary. 



9- S. costata. R. 



Diffuse, very downy- Leaves broad-lanceolate, or oblong, ribbed. 

 Flowers crowded on little axillary, proliferous umbellets. Stamina 

 protruded. 



Hedijotis Auricularia. Linn* 



Supposed to be a native of the Moluccas, as the plant sprung up ia 

 the Botanic Garden, from some earth brought with the spice plants 

 from those Islands in 1800. It blossoms and ripens its seed during 

 the greatest part of the year. 



Root biennial, if not perennial.— 5^^/ns or rather branches many, 

 . diffuse, round, from one to three feet long, clothed' with long, soft 

 diverging hairs. — T^eaves opposite, sub-sessile, broad-lanceolate, en- 

 tire, ribed with numerous large, simple, parallel veins ; downy on 



both sides, from two to three inches long, and about one broad ; 



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• This is unquestionably a distinct piant from that described here, which iu habit 

 and leaves resembles my Ueilyotls idmifflla' See above, p, 370.— N. W. 



