56 LXXV. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) | Hedyotis. 
29. H. verticillaris, JV. & A. Prodr. 409; quite glabrous, stem O or 
very short, leaves rosulate sessile linear-lanceolate acuminate strongly nerved, 
stipules very long narrow, heads small on axillary 3-chotomously forked bracteate 
branches, calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate much longer than the tube. Wight Ic. 
t. 1029; Wall. Cat. 6188. H. plantaginifolia, Arn. Pugill. Pl. Ind. Or. 22. 
NirongnnY Mts., alt. 7000 ft., Wight, Ee, Ceyrow; in the central provinee, alt. 
7-8000 ft., Walker, Ee, 
Stem as thick as the forefinger, usually inclined and rooting, rarely 1 in. Leaves 
yellow when dry, very numerous, spreading flat on the ground, 3-15 by 1-2 in., 
straight, longitudinally channelled above and ribbed beneath by the parallel nerves ; 
stipules of the radical leaves hidden, of the branches }—} in., very slender, gland- 
toothed entire or divided. Branches (or peduncle) horizontal or ascendiny, rather 
longer than the leaves, naked below, trichotomously forked above with linear bracts 
at the forks, and below the head. Heads 4-4} in. diam. ` Corol/a-tube short, lobes 
linear, mouth woolly. Capsule (not seen) small, cells many-seeded (in Wight’s figure). 
30. H. uncinella, Hook. $ Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 192; erect, glabrous, 
stem 4-winged, internodes long, leaves sessile or petioled ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate acuminate, nerves distinct, stipules small broad pubescent gland- 
serrate or pectinate, heads terminal and axillary globose bracteate, calyx-teeth 
ovate-lanceolate recurved equalling the glabrous capsule. Benth. FI. Hongkong, 
149, H. borreroides, Champ. in Hook, Kew Journ. iv. 171. H. cephalophora, 
Br. in Wall. Cat. 842. 
Kuasia and Jynrza Mts.; alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallich, fe.—Distrr. China. 
Root perennial. Stem usually simple and erect, stout. Leaves 13-8 by 3-1} in., 
smooth or slightly rough above; stipules pubescent, cuspidate, produced into a long 
point. Heads 4-2 in. Calyx-lobes glabrous or ciliate. Corolla-tube short, glabrous, 
lobes linear. Capsule broadly ovoid, cells about 6-seeded.—I follow Bentham in 
regarding the Khasian plant as a form of the Chinese, which differs in the narrower 
often petioled leaves and more pectinate stipules. 
Secor. Il. Dimetia. Capsule septicidally splitting into two several-seeded 
cocci, the top raised and protruding between the calyx-teeth; cocci dehiscing 
ventrally.—Shrubs usually climbing. 
31. H. Lawsoniee, W. $ A. Prodr. 407 (not of Wight Ic. t. 1026); 
erect, glabrous, branches terete, leaves petioled elliptic-ovate or -lanceolate 
acute or obtuse, stipules broadly ovate entire, peduncles axillary slender, 
ES pedicelled, calyx-teeth very short, top of capsule produced between 
them. | 
CxxLoN ; central province, common between 5-8000 ft. 
An ereet shrub, variable in habit, greenish when dry. Leaves 1-3 in., narrowed 
into the petiole, pale beneath. Peduneles equalling or shorter than the leaves. 
Flowers few, à in. long. Calyx-tube obeonie, limb dilated with 5 small teeth. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, glabrous, mouth woolly. Capsule urceolate, cells about 4-seeded.— 
Gardner has collected at Neuera Ellia an abnormal state with obovate convex leaves 
with revolute margins. Wight's figure of Lawsonie represents the corolla as 5-fid 
and the fruit as pubescent, and of a totally different shape from this, with different 
placentation. It is probably a composite plate, in part of an Ophiorhiza. De Can- 
dolle's Wendlandia Lawsonie, founded on Lawsonia purpurea, Lamk., which again is 
founded on the * Pontaletsje” of Rheede (Hort. Mal. iv. t. 57), is a totally diferent 
and a Cochin plant, supposed by Wight and Arnott to be identical with this 
one, but differing in the square stems and terminal cymes, and is H. fruticosa. 
32. H. capitellata, Wall. Cat. 837 (excl. H. fruticosa, Hb. Rottler) ; 
glabrous, climbing, branches round, leaves shortly petioled ovate- or elliptic- 
lanceolate acuminate, nerves distinct, stipules very short cuspidate or toothed, 
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