Capraria. didynamia angiospermia. 93 



sessile, oblong-, seirato. Floiccrs axillary, solitary, sub-ses- 

 sile. 



Pola tsjira. Rliecd. Mai. ix. t. 78. 



This plant I have only found in rills of fresh water among- 

 tlieCircar mountains. It is annual with a creeping root, send- 

 ing up many shoots, or ramous stems of from one to two feet 

 high ; they are round, smooth and jointed, and as thick as 

 the little finger; all the joints underwater emit many fibrous 

 roots, or multifid, filiform leaves. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, serrate, a little 

 rugose, sprinkled on the under side with innumerable, glan- 

 dular dots, about two and a half inches long, and one broad. 

 Flowers axillary, generally solitary, short peduncled, pur- 

 ple. Calyx ; upper divisiois largest, incumbent. Corol cam- 

 panulate; upper lip broader and emarginate. JSTeciary, a 

 yellow ring surrounding the base of the germ. 



It is delightfully aromatic, and has a sweet pleasant taste. 



2. C. difiisa. R. 



SuftVuticose, diflfuse. Leaves opposite, petioled, lanceolar, 

 obtuse, entire. Spikes axillary, and terminal, shorter than the 

 leaves. 



From Pegue it was introduced by the Rev. Mr. F. Carey 

 into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it flowers and 

 ripens its seeds during the whole of the dry season. 



Stem scarcely any, but numerous, opposite, dift use branches 

 and their sub-divisions, spread close to the ground, all are 

 round, and the younger parts harsh with very short hair ; 

 whole spread of the plant about two feet high. Leaves op- 

 posite, short-petioled, lanceolar, obtuse, entire; from one 

 to three inches long, and under one in breadth. Spikes, 

 or racemes, for the flowers are short-pedicelled, axillary, 

 and terminal, claunny, villous, much shorter than the leaves. 

 Flowers small, purple, opposite, and alternate. Bractes li- 

 near-lanceolate, one beneath each pedicel, and two pressing- 

 the calyx laterally. Calyx of five unequal, linear, villous, 



