579. 
GENUS XXX. BIGELOVIA, 
Tetrandria Wonogynia. Ses. Syst: 
Deriv, Named after Jacob Bigelow, an American Botanical 
author. oe 
_ Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous or suffrutescent plants: leaves oppo- 
site or apparently verticillate from the presence of some axillary fas- 
cicled young ones: stipules connate with both petioles, more or less 
sheathing and fringed with bristles: flowers axillary or terminal : 
calyx-tube ovate: limb 2—4-toothed : corolla cup-shaped or funnel- 
shaped, 4-lobed: stamens exserted or included.:. stigma 2-cleft or 
undivided: capsule crowned with the calyx, 2-celled, splitting in 
divisions from the apex downwards; the cocci l-seeded, each de~ 
hiscing equally by a longitudinal chink along the inner surface: 
seeds ovate-obleng with a longitudinal futrow on the inner side. 
7 (1) B. rastocaaeas (WS) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p. 437. 
Syn. Spermacoce stricta, Roab. fl. Ind. 1. p. 370.~~Dee. prod, 
IV. p. 554, 
Srec. Cyan. Stem herbaceous, erect, acutely 4-angled, the an- 
gles scabrous frem recurved prickles: leaves linear-lanceolate, sca- 
brous: bristles of the stipules longer than the sheath,. glabrous, 
rigid: verticils of flowers globose, axillary, remote: fruit obovate- 
globose, glabrous at the base, very hispid towards the apex: flowers 
‘small, white. 
Native of wet rice fields in the Peninsula, flowering in the rainy 
season. i 
) B. RoxsurcHiana. CW. § AD 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 437. 
Spec. Cran. Stems herbaceous, 4-angled, glabrous and smooth : 
leaves oblong-lanceolate, slightly scabrous :. bristles of the stipules 
much longer than the sheath, glabrous: verticils of flowers globose, 
axillary : fruit. somewhat hemispherical, compressed, hispid, crown- 
ed with the 4 erect calycine lobes. 
Dindigul. Travancore, and other Southern provinces, 
GENUS XXXI, SPERMACOCE. 
Yetrandria Monogynia. Sex. Syst: 
“Deriv.: From Sperma, a seed, and Akoke, a point, in allusion ta 
the capsule being crowned by the calycine points. us 
