58 LXXV. RUBIACE Æ, (J. D. Hooker.) [ Hedyotis. 
96. H. fulva, Hook. f.; perennial, erect, villous, leaves sessile narrow 
lanceolate acuminate plaited, nerves 2 pair, stipules membranous with long 
cilia, cymes glabrous small axillary shortly peduncled, calyx glabrous teeth 
subulate, tip of capsule produced between them. 
Kuasia Mrs, ; on dry hills near Nurtiung, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. FRR 
Rootstock woody, sending up strict terete stems a foot high, which and the leaves 
are bright yellow when dry. Leaves 1-14 in., coriaceous, Cymes on short peduncles 
4 in., flowers subeapitate.— This resembles H. villosa in many respects, but differs in 
the strict habit, sessile leaves, with only two pairs of nerves and quite glabrous 
inflorescence. 
37. H. Griffithii, Mook. f.; woody, branches erect acutely 4-angled 
puberulous, leaves sessile lanceolate acuminate coriaceous scaberulous nerveless, 
stipules short cuspidate coriaceous, heads terminal sessile involucrate, calyx- 
teeth subulate much shorter than the globose glabrous pedicelled capsule which 
has a large protruded top. 
Buoran ; in woods, alt. 4200 ft., Griffith (Bootan Journal, n. 318). 
An erect shrub, 2 ft. high, with strict stem and branches, nodes distant. Leaves 
15-2 in., deflexed, with recurved margins in the fruiting state of the plant, yellowish 
when dry. Heads of fruit globose, E in. diam., involucrate by the large upper leaves. 
Capsule smooth, crustaceous, with very many small angular seeds.—A very distinct 
species, seen in fruit only, the tip of which often exceeds the ealyx-teeth ; it 
resembles in habit H. wncinella, W. & A. 
Secr. III. Euhedyotis. Fruit indehiscent or tardily dehiscent, or the 
crown only dehiscing loculicidally.—Ierbs, diffuse or subscandent, with usually 
axillary dense-fld. cymes. 
* Fruit hard, minute, indehiscent ; cells few-seeded. Cymes almost all axil- 
lary. Leaves usually plaited longitudinally with very strong nerves, rarely flat 
with slender nerves, never only l-nerved (nerves faint in H. paradoxa) ; stipules 
ciliate, 
38. H. vestita, Br. in Wall. Cat. 847; diffuse, villous, leaves petioled 
elliptic-lanceolate acuminate plaited, nerves 5-7 pair, stipules membranous. 
with long cilia, cymes villous small axillary shortly peduneled, fruit minute 
globose hairy indehiscent, calyx-teeth subulate. G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 526. 
H. costata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877 , ii. 135, not of Wallich. H. coerulea, 
Korth. in Ned. Kruidkund. Arch. ii. 160. H. capituliflora, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
ii. 183. Metabolus coeruleus, Blume Bijd. 992; DC. Prodr. iv. 495. M. 
lineatus, Bartl. in DC. l. e, Spermacoce costata, Roxb, Hort. Beng. 10; Fl. 
Ind, i, 370. 
Subtropical Sucxrm and the Kmasra Mrs, alt. 1-5000 ft. Assam, Gase, the 
Maray PxxiNsULA, and PrNANG, common.—DisrRip. Malay and Philippine Islands. 
A stout herb, 1—2 ft. long, branches terete. Leaves 2-4 in., greenish when dry ; 
stipules villous, with 1-3 subulate processes. Cymes inconspicuous, peduncle 0 or 
i-i in. simple or branched; flowers very small, crowded in heads 4-4 in, diam., 
lilac or pink. Capsules A in, 
39. H. Auricularia, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 420; annual, suberect or 
diffuse, branches glabrous or hirsute especially at the nodes, leaves sessile sub- 
sessile or petioled ovate or lanceolate acuminate smooth or scabrid abov§ often 
pubescent beneath, stipules membranous hairy with long cilia, cymes ajillary 
sessile small very dense-flowered, flowers subsessile, calyx-teeth small shorter 
than the indehiscent glabrous or hispid fruit. Roxb. FU. Ind. i. 305; ed. Carey Ar 
Wall. i. 370, excl. remarks; W. E A. Prodr. 412; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 4. 27. 
H. nervosa, Wall. Cat. 857 (? of Lamk.). YE. procumbens, Wall. Cat. 861 i H. 
