Hedyotis.] LXXV. RUBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 63 
with short bristles. Cymes compound, branches dense. Flowers pedicelled, bluish, 
mixed with linear ciliate bracteoles. Corolla-tube and short lobes hairy, mouth not 
bearded or villous. Fruit elongate obconie, apparently indehiscent, very mem- 
branous. 
54. H. monocephala, Zr. in Wall. Cat. 846 (corrected from macro- 
cephala); glabrous or puberulous, flaccid, branched, decumbent, leaves sub- 
sessile elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, nerves obscure, stipules slender recurved 
toothed or pectinate, cymes terminal capitate sessile glabrous, calyx-teeth 
lanceolate longer than the young fruit. 
Siruet, Wallich. Assam, Hamilton, Masters; Upper Assam, Griffith. 
A slender straggling species, dark brown when dry; branches 4-angled, grooved, 
the ridges puberulous, Leaves 1-14 in., base very acute, quite glabrous on both 
surfaces; stipules variable, sometimes of one long recurved very slender simple or 
cut bristle, at others with 2 or more long bristles. Cymes 1-1 in. diam., terminal or 
rarely on short axillary branches with usually small leaves at their base. Flowers 
quite glabrous, except the corolla-lobes within, larger than in H. scabra, but still 
small. Ripe fruit not seen.—An allied plant from Tenasserim or the Andamans 
(Helfer, Kew Distrib. 2884) is much stouter, with caudate-acuminate leaves. 
Specimens from Griffith in Herb. Bentham are marked as from Darjeeling, but are 
probably from Assam. The species was originally found by Hamilton at Birna- 
sherva in 1808 (probably in Assam), 
55. H. stipulata, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6195 and 863a; stems lax diffuse 
rooting below glabrous or puberulous, leaves ovate or lanceolate acute mem- 
branous, nerves slender, stipules with long bristles, cymes capitate sessile or 
peduneled axillary or terminal glabrous, calyx-teeth lanceolate recurved longer 
than the membranous broadly globose fruit. H. Lindleyana, Hook. mss. in 
W. & A. Prodr. 409. Oldenlandia japonica, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 
194. O. hirsuta, Linn. fil.; DC. Prodr. 127. ? Anotis capitata, Korth. in Ned. 
Kruidk. Archiv. ii. 151. 
TEMPERATE Hrwarava, alt. 3-8000 ft., from Dalhousie to Buoran, common. 
Kuasa Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft.—DisTRIB. Java, Japan. 
Branches slender, decumbent, 1-2 ft., terete and leaves dark brown when dry. 
Leaves 2-2 in., variable in width, glabrous or with a few soft scattered hairs above 
and on the nerves beneath, base acute or rounded; petiole 3-1 in.; stipules cut into 
filiform bristles nearly to the base. Cymes 3-} in. diam. Flowers quite glabrous, 
pedicelled. Fruit membranous, indehiscent or with a loculicidal fissure on the crown 
` between ghe calyx-teeth. Seeds many, small, angular and pitted.— Very similar to 
Anotis ép 
56.{H. Thomsoni, Hook. f.; annual, short, suberect, much branched 
from the base, leaves fascicled sessile narrow-linear acute margins recurved, 
stipules forming a short sheath with the petioles bristly, cymes dense in all the 
axils terminal, calyx-teeth lanceolate recurved longer than the broadly 
obconic’ membranous fruit. 
East Bencar; banks of the Megna and Mahanudde, J. D. H. 4 T. T. 
Stem very short with fibrous roots, branches suberect 4-angled leafy. Leaves 3-1 
by + ih. spreading and recurved, minutely rough above, midrib strong beneath, 
rather dilated at the base and united with the stipules into a short membranous 
sheath, proliferous in the axils; nerves 0. Flowers pedicelled. Corolla very minute, 
glabrous, tube and lobes short. Fruit apparently quite indehiscent, but there is a 
loeulieidal furrow between the calyx-teeth, pericarp with raphides (as in H. connata). 
Seeds very numerous, small, angular, pitted, pale—A very remarkable little plant, 
3-6 in. high, blackish when dry, not found by any previous collector, with the habit 
of an Qidenlandia, but the fruit appears quite indehiscent and the calyx is altogether 
that of) Hedyotis and approaches H. pinifolia. 
