cumstance. There being no better materials in this coun- 
try than printed documents, we take those as they are; and 
will indicate the points in which our plant differs from any 
of the published species. From M. glaberrimus it differs, in 
not having a square stem, and in being hairy: from M. an- 
dicola in its flower-stalk being shorter than the leaves, and 
its stem not being square; and from M. pilostusculus in 
stem, and in the outline of its leaves. To one of the two 
last we nevertheless suspect it may be referable. 
A decumbent annual, rooting at the joints; with round- 
ed, hairy, fleshy stems. Leaves opposite, cordate-ovate, 
stalked, toothed, 5-nerved without other veins, flat, downy, 
with a stem-clasping, flat, pilose, channelled petiole. Flowers 
solitary, axillary, on long stalks, which are shorter than the 
leaves, filiform, and covered with glandular hairs. Calyx 
campanulate, 5-cornered, 5-lobed, hairy; its lobes com- 
pressed, spreading, the upper being much larger than the 
rest, and falcate. Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped, a little 
longer than the calyx, with two furrows beneath, 5-lobed, 
yellow, 2-lipped: lobes %, rounded, equal, the lower emar- 
ginate, and a little the largest. Orifice hairy, with two 
elevated lines, and sprinkled with blood-coloured dots. 
Stamens 4, included, didynamous, inserted at the base of 
the tube; filaments filiform; anthers smooth, shaped like a. 
horse-shoe, with a gibbous connectivum. Ovary 2-celled, 
many-seeded, with no discus. Style filiform. Stigma 2- 
lobed, with equal, flat, thin, dilated lobes of which the 
lowest is recurved. 
| Jo Ls 
