Glechoma. didynamia gymnospermia. 7 



8. M. perilloides. JJnn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. iii. 83. 



Annual, hairy. Leaves cordafo, orossly serrate. Racemes 

 terniit)al, aiui axillary, sessile, four-sided. J^lowers in op- 

 posite approximate pairs, sub-secund. Bractes as long as 

 the flowers. Stamens shorter than the corol. 



Perilia ocynioides. JJun. sp. pi. ed. Willd. iii. 83. 



A native of" Nepal, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the 

 seeds to this garden, where, in one year from the time the 

 seed was sown the plant blossomed abundantly. 



Stem erect, with four rounded angles, and excavated sides, 

 liairy. Branches opposite, expanding, and, like the stem of 

 the most luxuriant plants, about three feet high. Leaves op- 

 posite, long-petioled, broad, cordate, grossly-serrate, hairy 

 on both sides, from three to five inches long, and from two to 

 four broad. Petioles hairy, chaiiinelled. Racemes axillary and 

 terminal, sessile, four-sided, particularly before the flowers 

 expand. Bractes lanceolate, acute, one-flowered. Floicers 

 in opposite, decussate, approximate pairs, tending to point 

 to one side only. Calyx hairy; divisions five, nearly equal. 

 Corol, the vpper segment emarginate ; the under one much 

 broader and longer, sub-reniform. Stavtens rather shorter 

 than the corol. Anthers of two distinct lobes. 



GLECHOMA. Scheh. gen. N. 970. 



Calijx five-cleft, each pair of anthers converging in form 

 of a cross. 



G. erecta. Buch. 



Annual, erect. Leaves cordate. PeJimc/es axillary, bear- 

 ing several flowers in a head. 



A native of the skirts of the mountains of Nepal where it 

 is called JViasho by the natives, and used internally as a re- 

 medy in Gonorrhea. From thence the seeds were sent by Dr. 

 Buchanan, under the above name, to the Botanic garden 

 where the plants thrive well, blossom and ripen their seed all 

 the year roimd. 



