90 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMI A. SlreptUim. 



below, to lanceolate near the apex, where they are sterile, all 

 are acute and hairy, /^lowers nninerous', small, of a beauti- 

 ful light purple, inodorous. Ca/fjx sni;dl, margin ciliate, and 

 obscurely divided. Drupe globular, smooth, purple, the size 

 of a sm:ill pea. .^/'nt turbinate, two celled, with a seed in 

 each ; no empty cell in this species. 



STREPTIUM. 

 Calyx five-toothed. Coral funnel-shaped ; tube twisted ; 

 border five parted, equal. Germ superior, four-celled ; cells 

 one-seeded ; attachment inferior, two-partible. JSTtii wrap- 

 ped in the permanent calyx. Seed solitary. Embryo erect, 

 no perisperm. 



S. aspernm. Corotn.pl. ii. JV. 146. 



Tort u la aspera. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. iii. 359. 



Verbena Forskaelei. Vahl. Symbol, iii. 



Telhig. Obeera. 



1 have only found it in the vicinity of Saniulkota, on the 

 terraces and old walls of Pagodas. In flower during- the wet 

 and cold seasons, while young it looks well. 



Stem woody, perennial, short, irregular; ftrawc/tes oppo- 

 site, exactly four-sided, rough ; the height of the whole plant 

 from two to four feet. Leaves opposite, yjctioled, cordate, 

 serrate, covered with stiff hooked hairs ; from one to three 

 inches long", and from one to two broad. Pe^/o/e^ channel- 

 led, rough. Racemes terminal, or in the cleft of the exterior 

 branchlets, erect, very long- ; rachis four-sided, rough. Brac- 

 ies solitary, one-flowered. Flowers towards the bottom of 

 the raceme, remote, above approximated, small, white. Calyx 

 one-leaved, oblong, gibbous, five-angled, five-grooved, five- 

 toothed, covered with stiff, hooked hairs, permanent, closing 

 and enlarging with the fruit, which it entirely covers. Carol; 

 tube cylindric, rather longer than the calyx, twisted near 

 the apex, a little curved ; border five-parted ; divisions obo- 



