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Spec. Cuar. Stem petioles peduncles and nerves of the leaves 
beneath downy: leaves large, obovate-oblong, tapering at the base 
and decurrent down the petiole, acute at the apex, glabrous, pale or 
reddish beneath : racemes terminal, crowded, secund, alternate. 
Silhet. 
GENUS XIV. DENTELLA, 
Pentandria Monogynia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. A diminutive of Dens, a tooth, each side of the segments 
of the corolla is furnished with a small tooth. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx-tube globose: limb 5-eleft; segments lan- 
eeolate, acute: filaments very short, inserted a little above the base 
of the tube: anthers oblong, not reaching above the middle of the 
tube: style very short: capsule searcely dehiscent, between globose 
‘and ovate, hirsutely villous, crowned ‘with the calyx, 2-celled: seeds 
‘numerous in each cell, minute, angled. 
» (1) D. repens. (Forst.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 405.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 419.— 
Roxb. ft. Ind. I. p. 532. 
Syn. Oldenlandia repens, Linn.—Hedyotis repens, Lam. 
Engrav. Rumph. Amb. VI. t. 170, f. 4.—Rheede Mal. IX. t. 
39, 
Srec. Cuar. Herbaceous, annual, tufty, creeping: stems ‘fill- 
form, branched: leaves oblong, attenuated at the base; glabrous or 
with the petioles ciliated at the base: corolla fannel-shaped : tube 
Jonger than the calyx-limb, slightly hairy on the inside near the 
base: limb 5-cleit, spreading : segments ovate, acute, with an acute 
tooth on each side above the middle: stigmas 2, long, narrow- 
linear, slightly spreading: flowers white, small, axillary, solitary, 
alternate, very shortly-pedicelled. ; 
Common in moist places, shady banks of rivers and water-coursea. 
throughout the country. 
GENUS XV. HEDYOTIS. 
Tetrandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From ‘Hedys, sweet, and Ous, an ear, alluding to the 
sweet-scerted: ear-like leaves. 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous suffruteseent or shrabby plants : stems. 
4-angled or terete : stipules cohering with the petolies, usually fting- 
ed with several bristles, rarely entire : calyx-tube ovate or globose = 
limb 4-toothed or cleft; teeth or segments persistent : corolla funnel- 
shaped, tubular or rotate, 4-eleft: segments imbricated in -zstiva- 
tion: stamens inserted at the mouth of the tube or a little below it . 
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