BeipsieigsS 
fail i is fandy and ‘wet,- sfzecially under Pandanus trees. Dr. 
Rottler fent what we deem the fame, from rice-fields at 
Tranquebar, ‘by the name of O. orbiculata.. The root is flen- 
‘der and fibrous, apparently annual. Stems feveral, proftrate, 
three or four inches lo ong, branched, scene angular, flightly 
‘hairy. Leaves oppofite, on fhort hairy ftalks, ovate, ob- 
tufe, entire, {mooth on both fides, sold more or lefs fringed 
at the edges, marked with two ip igi in their lower part. 
‘Stipulas {mall, fringed. F/owers one, or at moift two, from 
the bofom of each leaf, rs fhorts ftalks. Fruit very hairy, 
we Baia very fi 
uniflora. Lam. ltr 271. (Oldenlandia sifcre ; 
ten a Pl. 174. QO. calycibus fructuum maximis colo- 
Fatis ; Gron. Virg. ed. 1.1 738 ed. 2. 21. Alfine onc 
major repens, folis acuminatis, virginiana; Pluk. Phyt. 
= eho ae 
- 5-)—Leaves ovate, acute, rough-edged. 
, folitary or in pairs. Fruit hairy, fhorter than the 
calyx —Native of Virginia, and, according to ° nay of 
Jamaica. The /fems are much longer, and more branched, 
chan ji in ue lait. Leaves more acute, longer, yet not an inch 
in bength, {carcely three-ribbed, fmooth, saeee that their 
edges and midrib are rough with minute briflly hairs. Ger- 
ry, fhorter i either the flower-fta 
‘Ze, a acute, 
ufually 
ooth, flightly fring 
green, but little e 
a... FA, bit fute. (Oldenlandia hiefta tides Seok 127.) 
— Leaves o ked, hairy- Um- 
bels js sully, folitary » ftalked, 2 eo + abi Fruit — 
R oot cr 
orft. Prodr. 10.) 
mbels a axillary, flalked, of few 
‘or’ oriter in the iflan do of Tonga- 
k or fegments of : 
- 88. Dryandr. in Ait. Kew. ed..2. v. 1. 245, t than 
to the genuine a of Hedjotis but we have not their 
fruit to decide this queftion ;. and the fo. ollowing one, agree- 
ing with pe in itipulas and habit, feems without violence to 
connect them with the refit. 
+ i. eicleiefis Willd. n. 2. Lamarck. Di&. v 
Lluftr. 270. t. 62. f. 2. rear, page» ae ra 
1667. Burm. Ind. eru-talu 
Rheede Mal. BB Poon: cliptc oblong, 
thin, {mooth Bie hat partly umbellate, panicled, 
Stipulas poimted, fomewhat perc —Native of 
fandy ground in the Eaift Indies. Stem ra 
rious in heigh 
erroneous, our 
feeds ; yet the figure and defcription agree’ with it in every 
other’ point. . Lamarck’s defcription alfo anfwers to our 
plant, but not at all to the figure of Plukenet, to which he 
refers in a parenthefis, t. 454. and which is evidently 
the Knoxia corymbofa of Willdenow, mentioned. resend 
firft {pecies ;'a —— with two feeds only to each flower. 
I 
ate, 
3- H. pumila. Linn. Suppl. — Leaves ovate, acutey: 
rough-edged Elen ee fimple, axillary, alternate. 
Fruit oval. Gathered by Koenig in dry, barren amen 
on Sy Tranquebar fibrous, annu 
{carcely- a {pan high, 
walls, ai - Reot 
fomewhat like Anagallis ar venfis, 
n its general appearances 
branched from the bafe, {mooth i 
but the edges of the /aves and iehuies are found rough when 
Pe magnified.  Siipulas membranous, pointed and fringed, 
Flower-falks rather fhorter than the leaves, erect, sea 
ple point, nak Pe » {mooth, fingle-flowered. — Coroll. hitith, whites 
- Otaheite ef bby Capfule eset CaaS befprin with 2 few 
terug back im drying. Young branche: e. Leaves clote-preffed h th — that $f the de 
ftalked, oppofite, an inch or inch and half lon » elliptical, which is waiainds ar igh diy {preading. 
entire, flat, thin and fi tipulas forming a ring within 14. H. diffafa. Willd.-n. 7. a Fa bnconteees anit, 
the titalks, permanent, fhort, each tipped with a fhort rough-edged. somare fimple, axil the 
thick point, but not fringed. Panicle terminal, {preading, Fruit nearly globofe. Stem proc — Net tive of 
et ee principz ranches, each fi ubd divided d repeatedly in Eaft Indic m : rocumibent, dif A 
t fold afford- with fi nches. Leaves nearly an inc in 
a true idea of a po oe panicle. = ftalked, lanceolate, narrow, acut 
erme 
ing a - Braéleas 
oppofite, acute, in under each flbdvaliie 
and fruit fhort or ae ; ill 
an the 
i we can exami 
foregoing. 
: downy. _ Stipulas with a fimple point, naked.—Gathered in 
: dae 
nh 
ba at ieee 
se 
flightly two-lobed.—The habit of 
the 
Flowers 
fmocth, roughi at th 
oy seis Soh ibaa 
Coto ferateek Abies? Capfi 
crowned with the calyx. We know this only by W aber 
criptio bifloras 
fe 15. - ‘flora, Lamarck. Illuftr.272- (Otdenlanda bios 
inn. Sp. Pl. 1 nt humile l. 
flofculo gemello, air omer produéio; Burm. Zey 
It ere lanceolate, acute, — pee 
——— sseeteeat twoeflowered:—Naus 
