Hedyotis. | LXXV. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 57 
cymes axillary and terminal, flowers capitate, capsule globose, tip produced 
between the calyx-teeth. G. Don Gen. Syst. iti. 527; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
1877, ii. 135 (excl. var. y.). Oldenlandia rubioides, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 359. 
H. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6189. 
Mara PENINSULA; from Tenasserim, Gomez, to Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 
2903, H. verticillaris), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 890)—Disrmre. Sumatra, Banca, 
Borneo, Yunan. 
A tall climber, greenish when dry. Leaves 2-4 in., quite smooth on both sur- 
faces, nerves slender; stipules transverse, ciliate. Cymes pyramidal, branches tricho- 
tomous, distant, horizontal. Heads } in. diam., 8-20-flowered, the flowers sessile and 
radiating. Calyx small, limb cupular 4-toothed. Corolla glabrous, nearly 4-partite ; 
segments narrow, bearded within. Capsules globose, crown loculicidally and septi- 
cidally dehiscing, cells several-seeded. 
33. H. mollis, Wail. Cat. 859; climbing, slender, leaves sessile elliptic- 
lanceolate acuminate glabrous or hairy above, softly hairy beneath with strong 
nerves, stipules short connate 2-3-cuspidate, cymes axillary and terminal, 
flowers umbellulate shortly pedicelled, top of capsule produced between the 
very short calyx-teeth. G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 527. 
Dress, Wallich. 
Stem and branches terete, glabrate below, above softly laxly hairy as are the 
leaves below and young leaves above and cymes. Leaves pale and wrinkled when 
dry, 21-3) in., contracted at the base sometimes into a very short petiole. Cymes 
sessile or shortly peduncled, sparingly branched and few-flowered ; umbellules sub- 
globose, }-}in.diam. Calya-teeth short. Corolla deeply divided, lobes linear, glabrous, 
bearded at the base, as are the bases of the filaments.—Closely allied to H. capitellata, 
as observed by Wallich. 
34. H. scandens, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10; Fl. Ind. i. 364; climbing, 
glabrous, branches terete, leaves sessile or shortly petioled elliptic or lanceolate 
acuminate, nerves faint, stipules connate into a short truncate 2-cuspidate cup, 
cymes terminal, flowers pedicelled, top of capsule produced between the short 
calyx-teeth. DC. Prodr. iv. 422; Don Prodr. 134; Wall. Cat. 839. H. poly- 
carpa, Br. and H. volubilis, Wall, Cat. 838, 840. 
TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL Himalaya, alt. 2-6000 ft., from Nipal, Wallich, to 
Sikkim, J. D. H. Kuasta Mrs. and Siruxr, alt. 0-6000 ft., and CHITTAGONG, abun- 
dant.—Distris. Upper Birma. 
A much-branched climber. Leaves 3-5 in., green when dry, sometimes caudate- 
acuminate, smooth, flat; stipules membranous, ciliolate. Cymes spreading, leafy, 
flat- or round-topped, sometimes puberulous; flowers subumbellate, pedicels 45-2 in. 
Calyx obconie; teeth ovate, acute or obtuse. Corolla-tube short, glabrous, lobes long 
bearded within. Capsule broadly obovoid, crown very prominent, loculicidally 
prec > cells many-seeded. 
30. H. viscida, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 4; climbing? glabrous, slender, 
leaves long-petioled ovate acuminate, nerves slender, stipules small triangular 
Jand-toothed and bracts viscid, cymes axillary and terminal, peduncles and 
ranches very slender, calyx-teeth lanceolate much longer than the capsule, the 
tip of which is produced between them. 
TINNEVELLY ; in the beds of mountain streams, alt. 3000 ft., Beddome. 
A Jarge handsome shrub, branches very slender. Leaves green when dry, 3-5 in., 
memUfanous, base rounded ; stipules green. Cymes on filiform peduncles equalling the 
leave branches few subumbellate few-flowered ; flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyz-tube 
obconie, lobes long. Corolla glabrous, lobes short bearded within.—Beddome figures 
the stipules as entire, and describes them and the bracts as viscid; the bracts 
alluded to are no doubt those at the ultimate forks of the cyme, which are stipular.— 
The ¥ipe fruit is unknown. 
