581 
Gy. Car. Herbaceous or suffrutescent plants: steme terete 
or 4-angled: leaves opposite or apparently verticillate on account 
of the fascicled young ones: stipules undivided, or with bristles 
connecting the base of the petioles: cymes terminal, sessile or pe= 
duneled, the branches elongating in fruit and becoming spike-shup= 
ed: calyx-tube ovate, somewhat ribbed: limb of 4 unequal teeth, 
which are somewhat connivent in fruit: corolla cup-shaped or fun- 
nel-shaped, usually beatded in the throat: lobes 4 (> westivation 
valvular: stamens inserted upon the throat: filaments shortish ot 
‘wanting: anthers oblong: stigma 2-lobed : fruit 2-celled, composed 
of 2 indehiscent 1-seeded cocci, which either separate from each 
other from the base upwards or fall off cohering together: seeds 
ovate, triquetrous : albumen fleshy : embryo erect. 
(1) K. coryusosa. ( Willd.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p, 439. Willd. Sp. I. p. 582. 
Syn. K. teres, Béc. prod. IV. p. 569.—K. umbellata, Spr.== 
K. exserta, Dec. 1, c.—K. Sumatrensis, Wall.—Spermacoce teres, 
Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 367.—S. exserta, Roxb. 1. e.—S, Sumatrensis, 
Retz. ‘ 
Engrav. Wight’s Il I. t. 128.—Pluk. t. 482. f, 2 
Spec. Caan. Srect shrub, villous or more or less-hirsute, terete 
or obtusely 4-angled: leaves lanceolate, hispid above, pubescent 
beneath: stipules with long erect bristles: cymes corymbose : corplla 
funnel-shaped : tube very villous inside: anthers included, with the 
style exserted, or filaments, exserted, with the style included: fruit 
eval, falling off entire: flowers small, white, tinged with purple. 
Cirears. Dindigul. Colamala. Courtallum, Flowering in the 
vainy season. .~ ; 
(2) K. motnis. (Brown. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 439. 
Syn. K. Sumatrensis, Dec. prod. IV. p. 569. 
Srec. Cuar. Erect shrub, obsoletely 4-sided, villous: leaves 
Janceolate, pubescent: stipules with several bristles or subulate 
divisions: cymes corymbose, with umbellate ramifications; corolla 
with a short tube: anthers included: fruit oblong, splitting from 
the base upwards. ms 
Circars, 
(3) K. Heyngana. (Dee) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 440.—Dee. prod. IV. p. 570. 
Syn. Spermacoce corymbosa, Roth. 
Spec. Cuar. Stem somewhat shrubby, obsoletely 4-angled, 
xXoughish or smooth: leaves lanceolate, roughish or quite smooth ¢ 
