5jg8 "TENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Xj/ 'SimOoMs* 



columnar pedicel. — Seed numerous very small, angular, scabrous, 

 as iu L. quadrifolia, Gaert. Carp. i. 229- t. 50. 



Obs. This species ought to be separated into a distinct genus, 

 independent of those, to which Mr. Brown alludes in the work quoted 

 above. — The capsule is marked with five lines diverging from the 

 base of the style, indicating the sutures of the valves ; but I have 

 not been able to make it open along them, as it always bursts irregu- 

 larly, for the most part transversely below its middle.— N. W. 



4. L. pyramidalk, Wall. 



Smooth, erect; leaves linear-lanceolate, approximate, sub-sessile, 

 dotted beneath, cauline, alternate, those of the branches sub-oppo- 

 site ; flowers axillary, peduncled, shorter than the leaves, forming long, 

 terminal, leafy racemes; corolla glandular within the tube, a little 

 longer than the calyx and stamina, with oblong, bluntish iaciniae; 

 capsule, smooth, five-valved. 



Root fibrous. — Stem from six inches to two, or even three feet 

 high, smooth, slightly angular from two elevated lines, decurrent 

 from the insertion of each leaf, with alternate, erec to-patent, slender, 

 short branches ; the lower part marked with purple spots. — Leaves 

 mostly scattered, except the lowermost pair and those of the branch- 

 es, spreading, from linear to linear-lanceolate, tapering and acumi- 

 nate at both ends, entire, from two to four inches long, sessile ; the 

 uppermost on very short petiols ; floral ones narrow-linear, three or 

 four times longer than the small, erect, flesh-coloured axillary flowers, 

 which form terminal, slender, erect, leafy racemes. — Peduncles glan- 

 dular, exceeding the flowers in length. — Segments of the calyx line- 

 ar-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, marked with three or four glandu- 

 lar, broad, purple, mterupted stripes, a little shorter than the co- 

 rolla, the lacinise of which are oblong, and the tube marked at the 

 bottom with numerous, purple glands. — Stamina free, smooth, scarce- 

 ly equalling the corolla. — Capsule as large as a grain of pepper, 

 smooth, round, brownish, smaller than the calyx, bursting in five 

 valves. — Seed numerous, minute. — jJSTi W. 



