Fpermacoce. tetrandria mowogynia. gyp 



13 S. hhpida. I inn. Manl. 558. Sp. Ti ed. WUld. i. 572. 

 1 Annual, wiili diffuse, obsuieiel) lour-sided, huir^ branches. Leaver 

 obovate, cuneate, \\u\td, scabrous. Fiozcers vciticelled, two, three, 

 o» four in each axil. Tube ot ihe corol iwicc the length of the calyx. 

 Slamens and stj/Ie erect. , 



Teling. Madana-buuta-kada. 



Galeopsis zevJanica. Bi:^m. Zeyl. t. 20. /. 3. agrees pretty welt 

 with my plant except in ihe luimerous |)ediCflled floweis. i V 



■ Common on the sandy lands near the sea on the Coast of Coro- 

 luandel. 



14. S. pmilla. Wall. 



Erect, simple, four-sided, srabrons, with short hairs. — Leaves ses- 

 sile, linear, smonlh and silvery beiiralh, rather slioner than their in- 

 terstices. Slipulnry cilia very long. Verticils capitate. Stamina 

 exserled. Capsule villous at the lop and bursting there in two bitid 

 valves. 



Native of the Valley of Nepala ; discovered by Mr. Gardner dur- 

 ing the rains. 



Boot small, fibrous — S/e'« single, undivided, four-sided, filiform, 

 from four to six inches high, as well as the upper surface of the leaves, 

 rough with short, whitish, subulate liairs ; erect, somewhat adscending 

 at the base. — Leaves about an inch long, spreading, taperiiig into a 

 point, dark-green above, smooth and of a silvery white colour below, 

 with an elevated hairy lib ; nerveless; above the base they are a little 

 contracted, thence they widen into an ample membranaceous trunca- 

 ted stipu/a which is crowned with five capillary long ciliae. Flowers 

 very small, pale, sub-sessile, crowded together into four or five dense 

 axillary ver:iciis, of which the uppermost are larger and capitate 

 and supported by four reflexed floral haves.—Segmeiits of the cah/v 

 erect, linear, as long as t\ -i filiform, smooth tube, deciduous. Throat 

 of the corolla wide ; laci/iia lanceolate, equaUing the spieadnig fi- 

 laments. Ovarium oblong, slightly compressed, wiih a longitudinal 

 furrow on each side, smoolh at the base, villous at the lop.— Co/)- 



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