Oldenlandia.] LXXV. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 67 
leaves slender narrow-linear, peduncles capillary solitary axillary and 1-flowered 
and in «js dichotomous terminal cymes, calyx-teeth mad Ea rather shorter than 
the corolla-tube, capsules small broadly didymous, crown low. O. pusilla, Roth ; 
DC. Prodr. iv. 428, Hedyotis angustifolia, Wall. Cat. 6903. H. attenuata, 
Willd. ; Herb. Madr., in part. 
Ronirxvxp, Royle, T. Thomson. Benar, Hamilton. WESTERN Pexixsura, Wight, 
Cc. 
A very slender erect species, resembling a state of O. biflora, with paniculate 
terminal inflorescence.—According to the rules of priority, the name of O. pusilla 
should take precedence, but it is not applicable. 
9. O. dichotoma, Koen.; Roth Nov. Sp. 93 (Hedyotis); annual, very 
slender, glabrous or sparsely hairy, stem erect terete, nodes distant, branches 
filiform, leaves linear-lanceolate acute flat nerveless, peduncles capillary axillary 
and in open terminal panicles, pedicels very long, calyx-teeth subulate much 
shorter than the slender corolla-tube, capsule globose. O. linarifolia, Merb. 
Madr, O. affinis, DC. Prodr. iv. 428. Hedyotis dichotoma, Wall. Cat. 6204, 
in part; W. $ A. Prodr. 416 (excl. some synonyms). H. affinis, Roem. & Sch. 
H. Heynii, Bedd. Ic. Pi. Ind. Or. t. 33 (not Br.). 
BANDELKUND and southward through the WESTERN PENINSULA to Travancore, on 
dry hills, alt. 13000 ft., Rottler, Ze 
Stem simple in small plants, much branched in large ones, 18 in. high ; branches 
shining, divaricating, copiously flowering throughout their length, ultimate ones and 
peduncles and pedicels like fine hairs, 1 in. and more long. Flowers very minute. 
Capsules smaller than in its congeners, cells about 6-seeded.— Beddome's figure is, I 
think, this plant; it does not agree with his description, called H. Heynii (t. 33). 
10. O. arguta, Br. in Wall. Cat. 864 (Hedyotis) ; annual, erect, stiff, 
stem simple or 3-chotomously branched furfuraceous or his id, leaves semi- 
amplexicaul subulate or triangular-lanceolate acuminate scabrid, margins revo- 
lute, cymes terminal lax few-flowered scabrid, peduncles and pedicels filiform, 
calyx-teeth subulate-lanceolate shorter than the funnel-shaped corolla-tube and 
longer than the didymous hemispheric hispid capsule. Hedyotis linoides, Griff. 
Notul. iv. 265; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 134. 
MARTABAN and TENASSERIM ; Moulmein, and Mergui, in wet sand, Gomez, &c. 
A few inches to a span high; branches terete, spreading. Leaves } in., rigid, pale 
beneath, /Cymes twice or thrice forked; flowers blue. Seeds ellipsoid, angled, testa 
smooth. | 
ll. ©. Stocksii, Hook. f. $ T. Herb. Ind. Or. (Hedyotis); tufted, 
labrous,’stems filiform simple or branched above, leaves subulate, stipules with 
vistles, {cymes with few very large flowers, calyx-teeth elongate subulate 
almost ling the very broadly campanulate corolla-tube. 
Maranan; in the Bababooden hills, Stocks, Law. 
A very slender annual, apparently growing in masses amongst grass, 4-8 in. high. 
Stems simple below or throughout their length, branches ending in di-trichotomous 
cymes, with capillary pedicels. Leaves (not fascicled) ZA in. Calyx-tube short, 
obeonic, much smaller than the long erect or recurved teeth. Corolla much the 
longest of the genus, quite campanulate, blue, $-} in. diam. Capsules hemispheric 
or turbinate, smooth. 
SUBGEN. II. Kohautia. Corolla-tube usually long cylindric or funnel- 
shaped, with included or shortly exserted anthers. Ovary terete. Seeds nume- 
roug, angled.— Usually strict erect, annual or perennial herbs, rarely diffuse, 
sometimes shrubby below with stiff erect branches, very narrow leaves and 
terminal open cymes; stipules with bristles. 
* Cirolla-tube very slender, 
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