376 ON A NEW SPECIES OF AMMANNIA. 
Hft 
and B. lacera, growing wild in the pasture-like plantations. 
The new species, of which I now give a description, has long de- 
ceived me, as I looked upon it as some seedling ; but during this 
rainy season I picked up some specimens of it rather for curiosity's 
sake than for closer examination, when, to my surprise, I found that 
my supposed seedlings were perfect plants in flower and fruit. 
I describe this new species as an Ammannia because I consider 
Nes&a 
m, Tritheca, Mir- 
According to its 
habit it ought to be placed in Rotala, but it differs by the absence of 
petals. 
Ammannia (Rotala ?) pygwiaa, Kurz ; pygroaea, procumbens ; folia 
solitaria, opposita, linearia ; flores solitarii, axillares, petali3 carentes ; 
calyx 4-lobatus ; stamina numero variantia, frequentius 2 ; capsula 
a pice tuberculata. 
Herbulse pygmsese, procumbentes, glabemmae, colore olivaceo gau- 
dentes, paullo succulents, ramis vix pollicem ssepius autem 3-6 lin. 
tantum longis obsolete 4-angularibus canaliculars, ad nodos ssepius 
purpurascentibus. Kadices crassissimse, breves, oculo nudo quasi suc- 
cisas esse apparentes, ex axillis infimis foliorum solitaries erumpentes. 
Folia opposita, solitaria, decussata, circiter 2-3 lin. longa, linearia, in 
petiolum brevem indistincte attenuata, obtusiuscule acuminata, deflexa, 
nervo unico rubescente subtus prominente percursa. Alabastra tetragona. 
Flores minutissimi, |-| lin. tantum longi, solitarii, axillares, sessiles, 
bracteolis 2 calycis longitudine subulatis reflexis coccineis susteuti. 
Calyx campanulatus, 4-lobatus, lobis patulis triangularibus acutis. Den- 
tium interjectorum et petalorum vestigia nulla. Stamina 2, opposita, 
rarius 3 v. 4, calycis tubi parti superiori adnata j filamenta brevia, basi 
latiora. Ovarium inclusum, obovatum, apice minute tuberculatum, 
3-loculare, loculis multiovulatis ; stylus perbrevis; stigma capitatum. 
Capsula calyce paullo longior, obovoidea, apice tuberculata, coccinea, 
tnvalvis, septicide dehiscens, dissepimentorum obliteratione unilocu- 
laris, polysperma. Semina fabasformes, rnajuscula, laevissima. 
This dwarf species grows on bricklaid roads before the superinten- 
dent's house, and near Kyd's monument. It flowers during the rainy 
season, especially in August, when it ripens also its fruits. 
r I be number of the stamens is verv variable. Most flowers examined 
