62 LXXV. RUBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Hedyotis, 
teeth triangular. H. subearnosa, Wall. Cat. 860. Metabolus prostratus, Bi. ; 
DC. Prodr. iv. 435. 
Tenassert™ ; Chappedong Hills, Wallich, Helfer.—DisrR1s. Java, Borneo. 
Stem flexuous, rooting below, sending out long 'slender flexuous branches with 
<listant internodes. Leaves green when dry, 3-4 by 2-11 in., quite smooth, rather 
membranous, narrowed into a slender petiole 1-4 1n.; stipules coriaceous, very 
variable in length, with glandular teeth, erect or recurved. Cymes very small, 
flowers not seen. Fruit small, smooth, cells about 6-seeded.— This, though referred 
in Miquel's Flora to § Diplophragina, is certainly a Euhed otis. 
51, H. scabra, IVall. Cat. 880; a low woody herb, branches terete 
young pubescent, leaves subsessile lanceolate acuminate scaberulous or glabrous, 
uppermost involucriform, nerves faint, stipules small triangular, cymes ter- 
minal (and axillary?) capitate sessile, calyx-teeth triangular-subulate shorter 
than the small globose glabrous fruit. 
ManrABAN and Tenasserim; Moulmein, Wallich; Mergui, Griffith, &c. 
Very much branched, branches woody, whitish, the younger and leaves dark- 
brown when dry. Leaves 1-2 in., the upper stellately spreading round the cymes, 
base very acute, very obscurely scabrid; stipules pubescent, teeth few glandular. 
Cymes globose, | in. diam.; flowers very shortly pedicelled. Corolla very small, 
tube and lobes short. Fruit crustaceous, many-seeded, apparently indehiscent, but 
there is a trace of a loculicidal groove on the crown. between the calyx-teeth.—Very 
near a N. Celebes species, which has longer calyx-lobes. 
SEcr. IV. Involucrella. Fruit membranous, 2-3-celled, very many 
seeded, indehiscent, top not protruded between the calyx-teeth.—A herb with 
a terminal capitate sessile cyme, which is sunk amongst the bases of the involu- 
criform uppermost leaves, stipules membranous with many very long subequal 
stiff recurved bristles. 
52. H. connata, IVall. Cat. 856; decumbent, branches 4-angled pubes- 
cent, leaves sessile oblong or linear-oblong acute coriaceous flat, nerves faint, 
stipular bristles longer than the sheath, calyx-teeth broadly lanceolate many 
times longer than the oblong fruit. H. merguensis, Hook, f. in Gen. PL ii. 57. 
TENASSERIM; Tavoy, Gomez; Amherst, Wallich; Mergui, Griffith. ANDAMAN 
Islands, Kurz. 
A stout-branched low herb, root woody. Leaves 2-3 by 4-1 in., suddenly narrowed 
at the base, but hardly petioled, puberulous on the faint nerves beneath; stipules 
connate, bristles $ in. long. Cymes quite hidden; flowers mixed with long stipular 
bracteoles, rarely cymes are formed in the lower axils. Fruit often 3-celled, bursting 
irregularly, walls full of raphides. Seeds angular, dotted. \ 
H 
Secr. V. Anotidopsis. Fruit membranous, rarely crustaceous, 2- 
celled, indehiscent or obscurely dehiscing loculicidally between the calyx-teeth, 
crown not protruded between the calyx-teeth.—Herbs or small shrubs, with 
axillary or terminal sessile or peduncled cymes; stipules membranous, usually 
bristly.— Habit of Anofis, 
53. H. cyanescens, Thwaites Enum. 143; hairy, stems decumbent 
rooting acutely 4-angled, leaves petioled elliptic-ovate acute membranous nerves 
distinct, stipules short bristly, cymes axillary dense many-flowered, flowers pedi- 
celled, calyx-teeth lanceolate ciliate many times longer than the membranous 
many-seeded fruit. 
Cryton; Ambagowa district, Thwaites, 
An undershrub, often bluish-purple (Thwaites), branches glabrous or hairy. 
Leaves 1-3 by 3-14 in., with short scattered hairs above, more pubescent beneath, 
flat; nerves 5-6 pair, arched; petiole slender, 1-3 in.; stipules short, membranous, 
