52 LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Hedyotis. 
pedunele with often 2 leafy braets; 2. leaves sessile or subsessile ovate-lanceolate 
obtuse or subacute, nerves very obscure. H. ovata, var. minor, Thwaites in Herb. ; 
3. leaves petioled orbicular or broadly ovate acute or obtuse, nerves beneath very 
strong elevated, peduncles usually filiform very short and 3-8-fld. H. ovata, var. B. 
Thwaites Enum. 1. c.—This last resembles a New Zealand Coprosma in habit; grows 
in shady places; its branches and peduncles are sometimes supra-axillary. 
13. H. Beddomei, Hook. f.; stipules and inflorescence hairy, leaves 
small poc elliptic-ovate subacute, nerves strong beneath, stipules broad 
ovate shortly united pectinate, cymes terminal subsessile capitate, calyx hispid 
tube shortly produced together with the ovate-lanceolate teeth about equalling 
the capsule. H. capitata, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or, t. 191. 
Travancore; on the Palghat hills, alt. 6500 ft., Beddome. 
Stem woody with white bark. Leaves yellow when dry, 1-1} in., contracted into 
a short flattened petiole, margin recurved when dry; stipules 4 in. acute. — Cymes 
axillary and terminal, involuerate. — Corolla-tube and lobes outside hispid, lobes 
inside glabrous except at the woolly mouth. Capsules sessile, cells about 4-seeded. 
14, H. buxifolia, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 1; glabrous, leaves small 
short-petioled ovate or ovate-cordate acute nerveless margins recurved, stipules 
connate at the base broad pectinate ciliate, cymes terminal and axillary 3- 
flowered, calyx-tube produced, teeth lanceolate. 
TRAYANCORE ; on the higher ranges of the Anamallay Mts., Beddome. 
A large shrub, branches terete. Leaves }-} by } in, glabrous, shining, very 
coriaceous; stipules with a line of hairs down the centre. Pedwneles } in. Flowers 
subsessile; bracts filiform, ciliate. Corolla-lobes within and mouth villous, Seeds 
numerous.—Description from Beddome. 
** Erect shrubs; cymes terminal, capitate, or panicled. Stipules large, form- 
ing loose sheaths, which often become white with age. 
15. H. quinquenervia, Thwaites Enum. 141; nearly glabrous, leaves 
very coriaceous sessile orbicular very convex with margins and tips especially 
strongly recurved, very strongly 5-nerved from the base, stipular sheath cupular 
ciliate, cymes terminal sessile, calyx-tube produced and large ovate teeth to- 
gether equalling the capsule. Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 8. 
Creton ` Central province, alt. 7-8000 ft, Walker, &e. 
Stem woody, di-trichotomously branched ; branches white below, above dark (when 
dry), with 2 lines of pubescence. Leaves dark or yellow-brown when dry, + ig. diam., 
sometimes obovate-orbicular, abruptly contracted at the base; nerves dee ly sunk 
above, beneath very thick; stipular sheath } in. long, loose. Corolla-tube glabrous, 
pe hispid at the tip, glabrous within, except at the mouth. Capsule däit, cells 
4-seeded. 
16. H. Lessertiana, Arn. Pugill. Pl. Ind. Or. 21; glabrous or nearly 
so, leaves petioled ovate elliptic or lanceolate acuminate very coriaceous, nerves 
very strong, stipular sheath ciliate, cymes terminal capitate and subunfbelled, 
calyx-tube more or less produced, teeth and limb together much shortgr than 
the capsule. Thwaites Enum. 141; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 31. C. fla 
Thwaites l. c. 141 and 419. 
Crrton ; Central province, alt. 3000 to 8000 ft., abundant. 
A shrub with stout branches and leaves very variable in size, sometimes the 
largest of the genus, yellowish or brownish-green when dry; young shoots so etimes 
sparsely puberulous. Leaves 3-8 by 1-3 in., narrowed into a slender or stout etiole 
3-1} in., almost plaited (rarely flat with slender nerves), the nerves eme: 
scens, 
sunk in the upper surface and highly raised on the under, where they are so etimes 
hairy, margins flat or recurved rarely ciliolate; stipular sheath 3-13 in, longf some- 
