Hedyotis. | LXXV. RUBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 53 
times 1 in, diam. Cymes glabrous or sparsely hairy, more or less umbellate, usually 
dense-flowered and rounded, sometimes quite capitate. Corolla-tube variable in length, 
lobes and throat usually densely woolly. Capsule ellipsoid, cells about 4-seeded.—In 
a form (H. marginata, Thw. mss., N. 3935), from Kotteyagalla, alt. 5000 ft., the 
leaves are ciliolate, the flowers in dense heads, the calyx-teeth longer, lanceolate, and 
the corolla-lobes glabrous except at the base, 
17. H. Gardneri, Thwaites Enum. 142; glabrous, leaves sessile recurved 
lanceolate acuminate, nerves very indistinct, stipular sheath very broad, panicle 
erect terminal elongate pyramidal, calyx-tube produced and together with the 
lanceolate teeth equalling the capsule. 
CEYLON ; Adam's Peak, Gardner. 
I have seen but one specimen of this remarkable species, which has much the 
habit of a South Brazilian Eryngium ; it consists of a stout cylindric stem 6 in. long, 
clothed with somewhat corky white remains of the stipules, and bears several sub- 
terminal crowded rosettes, about 6 in. diam. of recurved yellowish when dry leaves, 
and a very stout erect branched panicle, 8 in. high by 4 broad, with distant opposite 
3-chotomously divided flowering branches. The panicle is evidently a last year's one, 
and is white with age. Leaves 3-3} by } in., complicate, very coriaceous, their bases 
concealed by the remains of the large stipules. Capsules sessile, turbinate, 4 in. 
*** Herbs, all? annual, with terminal panicled or subumbelled cymes, small 
lowers, and globose capsules; stipules very small. 
18. H. Wallichii, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, ii. 136; a slender 
sparingly hairy or hispid annual, leaves subsessile ovate or elliptic acute, stipules 
subulate ciliate, cymes excessively 3-chotomously branched, pedicels long slender, 
flowers minute, capsule globose with minute calyx-teeth. H. galioides, Wall. 
Cat. 866. 
TENASSERIM, Gomez, &c.; Nicopar Islands, Kurz.—DrisrRrB. Borneo. 
Stem trichotomously branched from the base; branches acutely 4-angled, all 
floriferous. Leaves 4-3 in., in remote pairs, ciliate; nerves few, slender.  Pedicels 
spreading, often 2-3-nate. Flowers about j^ in. long. Capsules } in. diam., cells 
about 6-seeded. Seeds microscopic, angled, smooth.—Possibly an Oldenlandia, but 
the capsules dehisce septicidally to the base. 
19. H. elegans, Wall. Cat. 887; quite glabrous, very slender, leaves 
subsessile ovate-lanceolate long acuminate, nerves very obscure, stipules small 
very broad acute or cuspidate, flowers sessile on the branches of terminal and 
axillary subumbellate cymes, calyx-teeth obtuse. 
TEsassERIM, Gomez, Helfer. 
Probably perennial, bright green when dry; stem very long and slender, terete, 
simple or sparingly branched. Leaves in distant pairs, 2-41 by 1-14 in., narrowed 
into short petioles, margins flat. Cymes long-peduncled umbellately or 2-3-choto- 
mously branched from above two linear or oblong bracts; branches 1-3 in. long, 
spreading or divarieate, rather stout. Flowers very shortly pedicelled, à in. long. 
Capsules 3, in. diam., crowned with the triangular obtuse calyx-teeth; cells about 
4-seeded.— This resembles a species of Hance, No. 11,230, which has broader less 
acuminate leaves and pedicelled flowers; also very near the Chinese H. acutangula, 
visu ue acutely angled stem and sessile leaves. 
20. Xt. Helferi, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, leaves subsessile ovate obtuse 
or supacute nerveless margin recurved, stipules small broad, cymes small ter- 
minap shortly peduncled, branches short, capsules subsessile, calyx-teeth very 
short obtuse, 
Tgxasserm™ or the ANDAMAN Islands, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 2909). 
A small species, black in drying; branches stiff, 4-angled. Leaves sometimes 
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