3 PENTAXDRIA MONOGYKIA. MyOSQt's. 



A native of Bengal ; appearing in Gardeus, and on cultivated land 

 in the cold season. 



Stems diffuse, slender, clothed with stiff hairs ; length from six 

 to eighteen inches. — Leaves alternate, the inferior ones petioled ; 

 the superior ones sub-sessile ; all entire, oblong, soft, and hairy. — 

 Flowers solitary, between the leaves, short peduncled, small, white, 

 with a tinge in the throat, — Calyx longer than the tube, hairy. — 

 Corol with the tube gibbous, its mouth contracted with five broad, 

 emarginate scales. — Stamens hid in the belly of the tube. — Seeds, 

 or arils obovate, scabrous, affixed by the base, and on the inside to 

 the stignn. 



4. C. marifoUmn, R. 



Annual, diffuse. Leaves bifarious oblong, hairy. Flowers solitary 

 between the leaves ; corol half the length of the calyx ; seeds round, 

 rough. 



A native of the eastern parts of Bengal ; flowering time the cold 

 season ; soon after which the seed ripens, and the plants perish. 



Root annual. — Stem none, but several, ramous, slender, round, hai- 

 ry branches spread on the ground. — L eaves alternate, bifarious, sub- 

 sessile, elliptic, hairy underneath ^ half an inch in length, and about 

 half that in breadth. — Flozeers axillary, or between the leaves, short- 

 peduncled, solitary, very small, of a pale whitish blue. — Calyx 'five- 

 leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, hairy on the outside, nearly twice as large 

 as the corol.- — Corol, the tube very short, the throat contracted by 

 five emarginate scales alternate with the stamens. — Filaments short ; 

 anthers large, half hid in the mouth of the tube of the corol. — Style 

 short, clavate ; stigma emarginate. — Seeds rough, round, almost hid 

 in the calyx, affixed to a very short columnar receptacle. 



MYOSOl'IS. 



Calyx with five, more or less deep segments. Corola hypocrate- 

 nform, the throat shut with five-vaults, limb obtuse, five-parted, 



