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4. BuiiMANNiANA, Br. — Annual, procumbent; branches elon- 

 gated ; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate ; peduncles solitary, axillaty 

 alternate, shorter than the leaves, 1 to 3-flowered ; corolla white, 

 shortly tubular ; capsule roundish-ovate, glabrous. A common 

 weed. Syn. H biflora. Lam. lllust. No. 1427 ; H diffusa, Willd. sp. 

 i, 566 ; Oldenlandia biflora, Lam. Encycl. Meth. iv, 533 ; Geron- 

 togea biflora, Cham, and Schult. in Linn, iv, 155. 



5. Hevnbi, 15r. — Annual or biennial erect, dichotomous, glab- 

 rous ; branches acutely 4-angled ; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate ; 

 pedicels 1 -flowered, axillary, solitary or in pairs in the opposite or 

 alternate axils, shorter than the leaves ; capsule roundish-ovate, 

 crustaceous, opening across the apex. Equally common with the 

 preceding. Syn. H herbacea, Willd. sp. i, 566 ; Oldenlandia 

 herbacea, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 424. 



6. Latifolia, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 133. — Stem erect, 

 glabrous, quadrangular, almost 4-winged, trichotomous ; leaves 

 ovate-acute, rounded at the base, short-petioled, slightly hisjiid on 

 the prominent nerves beneath, 1 ^ inch long, I inch broad, lower 

 sti|)ules truncate, glabrous, upper ones with 3 to 6 ciliated bristles ; 

 flowers few, minute, pale rose-coloured, on longish trichotomously 

 branched peduncles ; calyx 4-toothed, tube of the corolla 3 to 4 

 times longer than the calyx teeth ; capsule with the calycine teeth 

 about the middle, splitting to the base, 4 to 12-seeded, seeds cup- 

 shaped. Malwan ; flowers in July; closely allied to H Rheedei. 



7. FcETiDA, Dalz. loc. cit. — Four inches high, erect, glabrous, 

 scarcely branched, stems acutely 4-sided ; leaves linear, with recurved 

 margins, scabrous above, 1 inch long ; flowers purple, capitate, 

 clustered in threes or fives on the apex of, longish peduncles, very 

 foetid ; calyx 4-divided, the teeth with callous points ; capsule much- 

 compressed, crowned by the distant calyx teeth, dehiscing only 

 within the calyx, 4 to r2-seeded, Malwan; common in stony 

 ground in the rains. 



8. Carnosa, Dalz. loc. cit — Herbaceous, much-branched, as- 

 cending, glabrous ; leaves lanceolate elliptic-obtuse, thick and 

 fleshy, attenuated into a short petiole, the margins recurved, 1 inch 

 long, 5 to 6 Hues bioadj flowers and capsules exactly as in the 

 preceding, and supposed therefore to be a variety of it, the differ? 

 ences in the leaves, &c., being caused by the influence of the 

 salt spray. On the sea shore at Malwan. 



9. Lancifolia, Dalz. loc. cit. — Herbaceous, erect-branched ; 

 leaves lanceolate acuminate, pubescent above and on the nerves 

 beneath ; stipules pubescent, furnished with 4 to 5 ciliated bristles ; 

 peduncles with spreading hairs ; flowers numerous, in heads of 5, 

 corolla with a long slender tube 6 to 7 times longer than the calyx 

 teeth; capsule hispid, compressed, crowned with the spreading 



