772 BENGAL PLANTS. _ [Mierocarpea. 
1453. Microcarpma muscosa R. Br.; F. B. I. iv. 287. 
N. Bengal. 
A minute, tufted herb. 
661. Glossostigma Arn. 
Minute, glabrous, creeping herbs; leaves opposite or fascicled, 
linear or spathulate, entire. Flowers minute, axillary, solitary ; 
bracteoles 0. Sepals connate in an obtusely 3 3-4. lobed, campanu- 
calyx. Petals 5, connate in a shortly tubular corolla; lobes 
subequal, spreading. Stamens 2 (in our only species) or 4; fila- 
ments filiform; anthers with diverging cells, confluent at their 
apices. Carpels connate in a perfectly or imeipertectliy 2-celled 
ovary; ovules in each cell many; style short; stigma dilated, 
aiGaRE oi Fruit a small, loculicidal capsule, enclosed 
the yx; valves ot Dia from a columnar, placentiferous 
axis. Seeds small, ovoi 
1454. Gxonsdorvion SPATHULATUM Arn.; F. B. I. iv. 288. 
Beh: 
A minute, tufted herb. 
662. Scoparia Linn. 
erbs or undershrubs, with twiggy branches; leaves opposite 
or whorled, glabrous or pubescent, entire or toothed, punctate. 
Flowers small, white or yellow, Cre solitary or 2-nate ; brac- 
teoles 0. Sepals connate in a -partite, small calyx; lobes 
imbricate. Petals 4, connate in a ads corolla; throat densely 
bearded; lobes obtuse, subequ Stamens 4, subequal ; filaments 
filiform ; anthers subsagittate ; colts deeeaes, parallel or diver 
globose or ovoid, septicidal en valve mbranous, 
margins inflexed, separating from epee dichogill 
Seeds many, obovoid, angled, adboBisitate 
1455. Scoparia puucis Linn.; F. B. I. iv. 289. 
In every province. 
A rigid perennial. 
663. Yeronica Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees; leaves opposite, rarely cauline or 
all alternate. Flowers solitary, axillary or in terminal or axillary 
