60 LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). [ Oldenlandia. 
in Wall. List n. 867; Wight and Arn. Prodr. p. 416 ; H. dichotoma, A. 
Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 361; H. (Kohanutia) micrantha, Hochst. in Hb. 
Schimp. Abyss. (1854) ed. Hohenack. n. 2263 ; ? O. linearis, DC. Prodr. 
iv. p. 425. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius!; Accra, G. Don!; ? Senegambia, 
Perrottet and Leprieur ; Niger, Barter ! 
Nile Land. Kuarague, Speke and Grant! 447; Djurland, Schweinfurth! ; 
Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Oceurs also in India and Natal, and apparently also in Madagascar. 
18. O. parviflora, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 84; 
excl. syn. (1873). Much branched nearly glabrous herb, shortly decum- 
bent at base, with long tapering vertical root. Lower branches sub- 
terete, upper subangular. Leaves narrowly linear, acute, rather thick, 
scabrous on the margins, sessile, 3-14 in. long; stipules 2—4-setose. 
Flowers tetramerous, 2 in. long, on short pedicels as long as the calyx 
or shorter, 2-9 together, subfasciculate in small umbellate corymbs 
arranged in an ample somewhat leafy corymbose cyme. Calyx half the 
length of the flower ; teeth lanceolate-subulate. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
half cleft ; throat somewhat hairy inside; tube slightly exceeding the 
calyx ; lobes oblong-ovate, subobtuse. Anthers included. Style ex- 
serted. Capsule subglobose, truncate, crowned by the calyx-teeth, 71, in. 
diam., snbdidymous, at length dehiscing loculicidally at the top. Seeds 
angular.—Kohautia parviflora, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 403 
(14), part.—Hedyotis, sp. n. 3, T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ., App- 
p. 636. 
Upper Guinea. Niger, Th. Vogel! 
Wile Land. A common weed about the fields of Kazeh, at alt. 4000 ft. S. lat. 
5°, E. long. 33°, Speke and Grant! 
19. O. flosculosa, Hiern. A profusely branched nearly glabrous 
annual, 6-12 in. high. Leaves linear-oval, narrowed at both ends, 
mostly apiculate, subsessile, glabrous, paler beneath, spreading, mar- 
gins revolute; 3-12 by y;—4 in; stipules subulate or paucisetose. Flowers 
about 7/5 in. long, tetramerous, on pedicels about equalling the calyx, 
several together in little clusters on branched spicate racemes, forming 
an ample terminal cyme. Calyx glabrous, subhemispherical, with short 
narrowly lanceolate teeth. Corolla subcampanulate somewhat exceed- 
ing the calyx-teeth; throat glabrous. Capsule subglobose, dehiscing 
loculicidally at the apex, about 7, in. diam. Seeds angular. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar Island, Hildebrandt ! 
20. O. monanthos, Hiern. Rootstock woody. Stems ceespitose, 
slender, prostrate, glabrous or nearly so, short or elongated. Leaves 
oval, obtuse or subacute, somewhat narrowed at the base, very shortly 
petiolate, with a few scattered short inconspicuous hairs especially on 
the margin, l-nerved and rather paler below ; 14 by ;1,—} in.; stipules 
shortly sheathing 3—1-setose or truncate. Flowers tetramerous, white, 
4-2 in. long, solitary, axillary, on peduncles from half to the whole of 
the length of the leaves. Calyx }—} in. long; lobes lanceolate, obtuse, 
