6 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CynOglesSltm. 



1. C. race'mosum, R.* 



Animal, erect, ramous. Leaves lanceolate, sessile, hairy. Spikes 

 paired and solitary, lateral, and twining. Flowers pedicelied. beeds 

 echinate, distinct. 



Found growing on rubbish in the vicinity of Calcutta ; flowering 

 lime the rainy season. 



Root annual. — Stem erect, with many alternate, erect branches 

 from every part; all covered with short, stiff, depressed hairs; the 

 whole height about a foot and half — Leaves alternate, sessile, lan- 

 ceolate, hairy, veined, a little wrinkled, margins minutely curled, and 

 ciliate ; from two to three inches long. — Spikes terminal, and axilla- 

 ry, peduneled, generally paired, though sometimes single ; when at 

 their full length much longer than the leaves, with the apices ineury- 

 ed.— Flowers alternate, on the upper side of the spikes, pedicelied, 

 while expanded erect, afterwards cernuous, very small, white, with a 

 purple throat which is somewhat contracted by five two-lobed 

 glands. — Calyx longer than the corol -, leaflets oval, hairy. — Stamens 

 just within the mouth of the tube of the corol.— Seeds distinct, of a 

 roundish conical shape, armed with many short, thick, stiff, glutinous, 

 headed bristles, and affixed to a conical receptacle, which has four 

 corresponding concavities to receive the four seeds. 



€. Cfurcatum, Wall. 



Racemes very long and slender, divaricated, forked, naked; leaves 

 entire glaucous, soft-haired ; radical oval-lanceolate, pointed, at 

 both ends petioled ; cauline sessile oblong, the uppermost ovate 

 cordate ; nuts echinate. 



A native of Nepalcr, and from thence introduced in 1818 into 

 the Botanic Garden where it blossoms during the rainy season, 

 i Root thick, woody, twisted. — Stems several erect, two or three 

 feet hioh, round, strong, covered with short soft hairs, which are 

 reflexed on its lower part, but erect on its summit and branches.- 



* C.emescens, Willd.— Syst. Yeg. iv, 73 et 760.-N. W. 



