Fpermacoce, 



TKTRANDRIA MONOGYNIA^ 377 



connecting membrane with generally three, unequal, slender, subu- 

 late divisions. — Flozaers axillary, numerous, pale pink, very small, 

 crowded together into small round heads, on short peduncles, and 

 pedicels the whole forming little, proliferous, villous umbels. — /«- 

 tolucre and Involucels annular, villous, from three to six-parted. — 

 Calyx, divisions equal, acute, hairy. — Corol funnel-shaped, hairy 

 on the outside and in the throat of the tube ; divisions of the border 

 recurved. — Sfa/ne«s protruded beyond the mouth of die corol. — Germ 

 beneath, broad-turbinate. Style about as long as the lube oi the 

 corol. Stigma two-cleft, villous. — Pericarp with two seeds. 



10. S. sefnierecta. R. 



Stem variously bent, but ascending, square. Branches brachi- 

 ate, alternately smaller. Leaves ovate. Flozcers in small, compact 

 verticils. Stamens and style inclosed. Capsule turbinate, hairy. 



A native, I suppose, of Sumatra, as the plant from which this 

 description is taken sprung up in a bed, where earth from that Island 

 liad been thrown, and in one year was about a foot and a half high. 



The loicer branches brachiate ; the superior often solitary, they are 

 all very exactly four-sided with angles sharp and somewhat hispid ; 

 in other respects they are very smooth. — Leaves opposite, with 

 smaller ones in their axills, short-petioled, ovate, accuminate, entire, 

 very slightly scabrous, particularly the margins, with nerves and veins 

 on the [inderside.— Connecting membrane divided into several fili- 

 form portions.— F/oa'ers numerous, very small, white, sessile, col- 

 lected into small compact, round verticills.— Coro/, divisions of the 

 border bearded in the ctntie.— Anthers within the tube. 



U.S. scabra. Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. WillcL i. 572. 



Annual, diffuse, round, hairy. Leaves opposite, sessile, round, obo- 

 vate, the hairy margins much curved, and somewhat curled. Flow- 

 ers axillary, sessile. Stamens and style erect. 



Tardavel. Rheed. Hort. Mai. 9- p- 149- 1 76. The leaves however 



are a little too sharp for our Coromandel plant. 



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