2$ - PiSTANDRiA woNOSYNiA. Lysimacltici} 



the base, about an inch long, beset with adpressed, jointed hairs, es- 

 pecially underneath. — Peliols linear, half the length of the leaves, 

 generally longer than the peduncles, which are densely villous, at first 

 erect, afterwards becoming depressed. — Flowers large, yellow. — 

 Corolla dotted with purple glands ; tacinia ovate, acute. — Filaments 

 dotted, monadelphous at the base. — Ovarium villous.— Style smooth. 

 — Capsule tending to be ovate, hairy, smaller than the calyx, nod- 

 ding, bursting, with five lanceolate valves. — Seeds minute, numerous. 

 Obs. This species certainly comes near to L. japonica, Thunb. 

 jap. 83, and consequently also to maculata, Brown, prodr. tior. Nov. 

 Boll. i. 428. From the former it differs in being a larger, creeping 

 plant, in having acute leaves and always solitary flowers ; from the lat- 

 ter in being villous, and in the peduncles being nearly as long as the 

 petioles.-— I possess specimens of what I take to be a variety of my 

 plant, having ovate, attenuate, acute, smaller, and more approximated 

 leaves, with undulated margins, appearing on being dried as if they 

 were crenate, as well as the stem and peduncles thickly beset with 

 grayish villosity ; the youuger parts tomentose, white ; flowers small, 

 oil exceedingly short peduncles which become recurved when the 

 capsules ripen. — N. W. 



2. L. alternifolia, Wall. 



Slightly scabrous, adscending ; stems angular, branchy ; leaves al- 

 ternate, sub-sessile, lanceolar, acute, equalling the axillary peduncles, 

 with elevated nerves ; calyx longer than the gland-cihate corolla ; 

 capsule five-valved, smooth. 



Stem from a span to a foot long, scabrous with a few glandular 

 dots, pubescent towards the top, as are also the alternate short, un- 

 divided, adscending branches. — Leaves longer than their interstices, 

 rarely sub-opposite, from half an inch to an inch long, varying from 

 lanceolar to narrow or sub-linear-lanceolar, tapering and acute at 

 both ends, entire, dotted, and marked with prominent, oblique nerves 

 beneath, somewhat hairy while young. — Peliols scarcely more thau 



