89"^ TETRANCU.IA KONOGYNiA. Spermucoce. 



Stem short and general)} annual. Lower dranc^es opposite, supe- 

 rior alternate, rouud, coloured, very )iairy, somewhat scabrous, weak, 

 spreading aud variously curved — Leaves opposite, sessile, round, 

 obovate, or nearly oval, somewhat acute ; hairy on both sides, edges 

 recurved and more or less curled — Coititecting stipule with three, 

 four, or five filiform processes. — Flowers axilliry, generally in pairs, 

 though often several together, but expanding in succession, sessile, 

 small, purple. — O/Zyr, the four divisions or in this .species ra.her 

 leaflets., lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube of the corol.— Coro/ 

 sub-campannlate, half four-cleft.— S^f/w^//s ns long as the segments 

 of the coTo\.— Style as long as the stamens. Stigmas two, two-lobed, 

 segments revolute Capsule o\d\, two-celied. Partil'on membra- 

 naceous Seed solitary, oval, equally ubtuse at each end. 



32. S. articuluris. Linn. Sp. PL ed. IVilld. i. .572. 



Annual, diffuse, four-sided. I eaves opposite, sessile, broad-lan- 

 ceolate ; connecting stipules from three to five-bristled. Floicers ver- 

 ticelled. Corol iufundibuliforu), four limes longer than the calyx. 

 Stamens and stifle erect. 



A native of the .'^andy soil on the Coast of Coroiv.a: del near the 

 sea, and in flower the greatest part of the year. 



Hoot generally annual. — Stem scarcely any,, but many diffuse 

 straggling, four-s'ded, alternate, hispid blanches from one to two 

 feet in length. — leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, a little hairy; 

 veins sim[)le, from one to two iiuhes long, and half an inch broad. 

 ■ — Connecting stipules cup-shaped, with from three to si.\ bristles from 

 each side. — Flowers axillary, sessile, two, three, or four expanding 

 in succession frcm the same axill. — Calt/x\\'vA\ slender, linear divi- 

 sions. — Corol infuiidibulihirm. Ti.be slender, three or four times 

 longer than the c-A-s\.~Ltnmens enct.— Sligi/ia erect, bifid; lobes 

 broad, and revolute — Capsule two-celled, partition membranaceous. 

 — Seed solitary, oval, furrowed on the fiat side. ' 



