Hedyotis.] LXXV. nUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 59 
lineata, Wall. Cat. 6198, not of Roch, H. costata, Br. in. Wall. Cat. 849 3 
G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 520. H. multicaulis, Schidl. Pl. Hohen. No. 845. H. 
venosa, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk, Arch, ii. 160. Metabolus venosus, Bl. ; DC. 
Prodr. iy. 435. Spermacoce hispida, Mig. Pl. Hohen. No. 44. "8. lineata, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 369.—Rheede Hort. Malab. x. t. 32. 
Throughout eastern Bengal from Nrrar, SIKKIM, and the Kuasta Mts. to Assam, 
Currracona, MvNEPooR, BIRMA, and southward to Maracca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 
891, H. vestita). WESTERN PENINSULA, from Canara, southwards, CkvroN, abun- 
dant.—DisrRrs. Yunan, Malay Archipelago, S. China, Philippines, Australia. 
Branches 6-18 in., terete. Leaves usually pale green when dry, 1-3 in.; stipules 
as in the two previous species. Cymes always sessile. Calya-teeth variable.-—There- 
are several very distinct looking varieties, but I am unable to define them clearly 
enough for diagnosis. Wallich's H. lineata, from the Deccan (No. 6198), is almost 
glabrous throughout, as are some Khasian specimens. The stems appear to be erect 
and woody in Wallich’s H. nervosa (No. 857), and the ealyx-teeth are longer in 
speeimens gathered by Thomson and myself in the Khasia at 4-6000 ft., and at 
Chittagong and Muneypoor by C. B. Clarke. Some Ceylon specimens have leaves 
with petiole 3 in., and long caudate points, as in Beddome’s figure. 
40. Ħ. lineata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10; Fl. Ind. i. 305; annual, pubes- 
cent, suberect or diffuse, leaves sessile ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate acute or 
acuminate, stipules membranous villous with one or more long cilia, cymes 
axillary hispid shortly peduncled, branches few-fld., calyx-teeth much longer 
than the hispid indehiscent pedicelled fruit. DC. Prodr. iv. 420; Don Prodr. 
194. H. ulmifolia, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey § Wall. i. 173; Cat. 
862; DC. Prodr. iv. 421. 
Tropica, Hmraraya of Nat, and Sikxiw, alt. 1-2000 ft. EASTERN BENGAL, 
SrzuET, CurrrAGONG, and TENASSERIM. 
Very similar to H. Auricularia, but more finely pubescent, with pedicelled branehed 
cymes 1-$ in. long, and long calyx-teeth.—I reluctantly postpone Wallich’s well- 
known name of H. ulmifolia for Roxburgh’s earlier one of H. lineata, though there is 
no convineing evidence of this being Roxburgh’s plant ; the name has been misapplied 
to H. Auricularia by Wallich. 
41. H. glabra, Br. in Wall. Cat. 848; glabrous, diffuse, stem elongate, 
leaves subsessile elongate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate membranous, stipules 
short with long simple or branched cilia, cymes on filiform axillary peduncles 
puberulous small loosely branched spreading, calyx-teeth much shorter than the- 
glabrous indehiscent globose pedicelled fruit. Meg. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 189. Sper- 
macoce glabra, Roxb. FI. Ind. i, 368. Knoxia glabra, DC. Prodr. iv. 569. 
Sitner, De Silva. Cacmam, J. D. H. § T. T., Ee Binwa, Griffith. PENANG, 
Wallich, Maingay. 
Stems 2-3 ft., slender, smooth, terete, fistular; nodes distant. Leaves 3-5 by 
1.1L in., point often almost filiform, nerves slender; stipules with very slender 
spinous processes sometimes 4 in. long and much branched. Peduncles LA in., bracts 
small. Flowers minute, as are the fruits. 
43. H. paradoxa, Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. 1876, ii. 135; glabrous, 
es obtusely 4-angled robust, leaves sessile long linear or linear-lanceolate- 
acu nerves beneath very faint, stipules membranous with ciliate bristles, 
een, capitate axillary globose very dense-flowered, calyx-teeth subulate hispid 
loneffr than the globose pedicelled fruit. 
Wura Anpaman Istanp; Escape Bay, Kurz. 
Apparently a large species; branches smooth, thick, almost terete. Leaves 4-6 
by $-1 in., narrowed at both ends, flat, nerves very oblique ; stipular bristles longer 
