94 DIDYNAMTA ANGIOSPERMIA. Stcmodia, 



clammy segments, Avhicli are as long as the tube of the co- 

 rol. Corol tubuhir. Border of five, nearly equal, rounded 

 divisions. Anthers twin. Germ ovate-oblong, two celled, 

 with four vertical rows of seeds in each. Style, the length of 

 the tube of the corol. Stic/ma of two very unequal, acute 

 lobes. Capsule linear, scarcely so long as the permanent 

 calyx, furrowed on opposite sides, two-celled, two-valved. 

 Partitions contrary, composed of the incurved margins of 

 the valves, and free from each other in the centre. Seeds nu- 

 merous, minute, round, and tubercled. 



STEMODIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1043. 



Cahfx five-parted. Corol bilabiate. Stamina four, with 

 each filament two-cleft, two-anthered. Capsule two-celled. 



1. S. viscosa. Corom. pi. ii. JV. 163. 



Annual, hairy and glutinous. Leaves opposite, stem-clasp- 

 ing, linear-cordate, serrate. Flowers axillary, solitary. 



Teling. Boda-sarum. 



A small, annual plant, found on dry rice fields after the 

 crop has been cut. >S7em annual, generally bent to one side, 

 with many spreading branches from its base, four-sided, 

 hairy, clammy ; from six to twenty-four inches high. Leaves 

 opposite, stem-clasping ; below linear-oblong, above cordate, 

 hairy, clammy. Flowers axillary, solitary, peduncled, small, 

 of a violet colour. Bractes two, lanceolate, pressing on the 

 calyx. Corol; tnhe compressed, longitudinally wrinkled, 

 twice the length of the calyx ; vpper lip broad, emarginated ; 

 the under lip three-parted. Stamens within the tube. 



The plant has a pleasant aromatic smell. 



2. S. ruderalis. Wilkl iii. 345, &c. 



Annual, diff'use, downy. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, 

 serrate. Floivers axillary, solitary, sub-sessile. Calyx five- 

 toothed. Corol deeply two-cleft. 



