Beliotrofium'. pentandria monogynia^ 9 



Root woody, slender, almost entire, sending forth copious slender 

 stems which lie flat on the ground, spreading in all directions with- 

 out striking root, round, about ten inches long, with a few simple 

 branches. The whole phut greyish from copious stiff adpressed 

 hairs. — Leaves approximate, half or three. fourths of an inch long, 

 scarcely half a line broad, with recurved margins, sub-bifarious, the 

 uppermost sub-opposite, crowded, strigose on both sides, the middle 

 rib much elevated on the under surface. — Raceme solitary, termi- 

 nal, at first slightly recurved, afterwards straight, two, sometimes 

 three inches long, with unilateral, somewhat remote, small flowers, 

 on short pedicels. — Bractes linear, inserted on the side of the com- 

 mon peduncle, opposite that to which the pedicels are attached, by the 

 lengthening of the raceme becoming alternate with the minute flow- 

 ers, exceeding the pedicels in length.— Calyx strigose, with deep li- 

 near segments — Corolla twice as long as the calyx, white with a yel- 

 low tube; throat contracted ; borde>- phcated ; lacinie, slightly ere- 

 nulate, acute. — Seeds united into a globular body covered with ad- 

 pressed hairs. 



Obs. This species is quite different from H. curassavicum, zeyla- 

 nicum, and demissum, to all of which it has some affinity. Its nu- 

 merous stems forming dense tufts, lying flat on the ground, with- 

 out creeping ; its short, most narrow, very approximate leaves, cover- 

 ed with greyish adpressed hairs, easily distinguish it from all the 

 plants of its numerous tribe. — N t W. 



sembling-, as might have been anticipated, the vegetable productions of the north- 

 ern parts of America, and of Europe. The name (Gossain-Than or Sthan) mean* 

 the place of devotees, (Gossain, or Goswamiu, lord of cows); it is also, and 

 perhaps more commonly called Neel-Kuntlut, signifying' blue-throated, an appella- 

 tion of Shiva who is fabled to have drank the poison which was produced on the 

 second churning of the ocean, which remained in his throat and coloured it blue. 

 It is likewise an appellation of Gurooda the regent of birds, and the name of a 

 beautiful bird, Coracias Indica. Consult Kirkpatmk's, and Hamilton's account of 

 Nepal«._N. W. 



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