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15. O. virgata, DO. ? Prodr. iv. p. 425. Erect or ascending 
perennial, with numerous virgate slender branches, glabrous above, 
puberulous or glabrate beneath, ranging from 2 in, to 2 ft. high. 
Leaves narrowly or sometimes broadly linear, acute, apiculate, sessile, 
4-12 in. long; margins revolute; stipules short, sheathing, truncate, 
with 2-3 rather long erect sete at the apex. Flowers tetramerous, 
}-} in. long, 2-1 together or fasciculate, on pedicels short or exceeding 
the calyx ranging up to 3 in., in an ample terminal corymbose panicle. 
Calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate, glabrous or nearly so, short. Corolla 
slender, cylindrical or salver-shaped, 2-3 times as long as the calyx; 
limb small ; throat glabrous. Fruit subglobose, 7';—-} in. diam., sabdi- 
dymous, at length bursting at the apex loculicidally. Seeds angular. 
—! Hedyotis virgata, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. p. 567 (1797) ; Kohautia parvi- 
flora, Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. p. 403 part. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea, teste Willd., Thonning; Sierra Leone, Smeathman! 
Afzelins ! Purdie! ; Accra, G. Don! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Djurland, Schweinfurth ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Between Lupata and Tette. Kirk! 
_ Kohautia longifolia, Klotzsch in Peters Mossam. Bot., p. 297, appears to belong to 
this or perhaps to the previous species ; the specimens were collected at Sena and in 
the island of Mozambique. 
16. O. effusa, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 84, t. 48 
(1873). Somewhat decumbent, 2-3 ft high, smooth or nearly so ; 
ranches slender, terete. Leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, 
1-2 (-8) in. long, sessile, margins revolute; stipules setose. Flowers 
tetramerons, slender, }- in. long, delicate, lilac, in ample effuse pani- 
culate cymes ; pedicels 1-11 in. long. Calyx } in. long, nearly gla- 
rous, teeth lanceolate-subulate, rather longer than the ovary, anthers 
and style included. Corolla salver-shaped ; throat glabrous; lobes 
ovate, subobtuse. Fruit globose, } in. diam. or rather more, at length 
ursting loculicidally at the apex. Seeds angular.—Hedyotts, sp. 
n. 4, T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ., App. p. 636; Kohautia, sp. n., Benth. 
in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 403. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! 
South Central. Lake Tanganyika, Cameron ! 
Mozamb. Distr. M’geta, 7° 20'S. lat., Speke and Grant! 
17. oO. Heynei, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 84. Erect 
or decumbent annual or biennial, 1-2 ft. long or more, with numerous 
often elongated tetragonal branches, somewhat scabrous or smooth. 
aves linear-lanceolate or narrower, acute, somewhat narrowed at the 
Sessile base, the longer ones 1-3 by }',-3 in.; stipules very shortly 
ee. Flowers tetramerous, 3-} in. long, lower solitary, axillary, 
on Ones usually forming a paniculate cyme ; peduncles mostly 
Cal to three-quarters the length of the leaves, some exceeding them. 
‘a ha half as long as the slender corolla-tube; lobes lanceolate, 
‘his ns as the tube. Corolla salver-shaped; throat glabrous; limb 
ee - Fruit subglobose, glabrous, at length bursting at the top locul1- 
ally. Seeds minute, angular.—Hedyotis stricta, J. E. Smith! in 
Cycl. xvii. n, 21, non Wall. nec Sonder ; Hedyotis Heynet, Br. 
