£it/simachia'. pentandiua monogyni^ 25 



smooth, sub-brachiate, with procumbent, sharply four-cornered 

 branches. — Leaves opposite, the uppermost frequently temate, 

 sessile, broad-ovate, acute, obscurely three-nerved, dotted beneath, 

 half an inch long, the lowermost remote. — Peduncles opposite, ax- 

 illary, filiform, longer than the leaves, naked, slightly thickened at 

 the apex and marked there with five angles which run into the keel 

 of the subulate, acuminate segments of the calyx. — Corolla dark-blue, 

 a little larger than the calyx ; lacinia obovate, strongly and unequally 

 gland-crenulate. — Filaments covered their whole length with glan- 

 dular hairs. — Style permanent with a rounded stigma. — Capsule 

 globular scarcely larger than the calyx.— Seed as described and 

 figured in Gaert. Carp. i. 230. t. 50. 



Obs. Although corresponding in the colour of the flowers with A- 

 coerulea, Engl. Bot. 26, t. 1823, our pretty little plant differs in be* 

 ing more procumbent and having broad-ovate leaves. — N..VV. 



LYS1MACHIA< 



Corolla wheel-shaped. Capsule superior, globular., pointed, five*- 

 or ten-valved. 



1. L.debilis, Wall. 



Prostrate, flaccid, villous ; stems almost simple, elongated, creep- 

 ing, slightly compressed ; leaves opposite, remote, ovate, sub-cordate 

 acute, dotted ; peduncles axillary, solitary, scarcely equalling the 

 petiols ; calyx villous, lacinm lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the 

 glandular corolla ; capsule five-valved, hairy. 



This and the following species are not uncommon about KatM* 

 manda in Nepalo, flowering mostly in the hot season. 



Root fibrous — Stems several, ten or twelve inches long, slender 

 and weak, obsurely four-cornered, covered with copious jointed 

 hair; all the young parts densely villous. — Leaves entire, in very 



remote pairs, the lowermost roundish ; the rest slightly cordate at 



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