68 LXXV. RUBIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Oldenlandia. 
19. O. aspera, DC. Prodr. iv. 428; stems stout and branches scabrid, 
leaves in fascicled whorls erect narrow-linear acute margins revolute, stipules 
with median bristles, capsules solitary or 2—3-nate subsessile on the slender 
erect branches of the cymes rough globose didymous, calyx-teeth subulate 
shorter than the corolla-tube. Hedyotis aspera, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 94; 
W. & A. Prodr. 417; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 115. H.? elongata, Br. in 
Wall. Cat. 865; G. Don Gen, Syst. ii. 527. 
Tue Punsas, Aitchison. RomiLKkuND, and southwards to Mysore, Rottler, &c.— 
Distris. Tropical Africa. 
A stout annual herb, 6-8 in. high, triehotomously branched. Leaves 2-3 in., 
glabrous above, coriaceous. Cymes branched in fruit, 1-6 in. long; flowers small, 
pale blue, 2 in. long, corolla about de in. diam. Capsules & in, diam. 
13. O. ?senegalensis, Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. iii. 56; glabrous 
or minutely scaberulous, stem extremely slender erect simple, leaves not fascicled 
linear-lanceolate acuminate flat or with recurved margins, stipules with lateral 
bristles, cymes in a very loose open terminal panicle with divaricate very long 
capillary peduncles and pedicels, calyx-teeth subulate much shorter than the 
slender corolla-tube, corolla-lobes acuminate, capsules hemispheric. Kohautia 
senegalensis, Endi. Atakt. t. 23. 
Coon NaaronE ; Hazaribagh, alt. 2200 ft., C. B. Clarke.—Disrrin, ? W. Tropical 
Africa. 
Annual, 8-16 in. high; stem wiry, terminating in a wide spreading very thin 
very few-flowered pyramidal panieulate cyme, with capillary pedicels 1-2 in. long. 
Flowers very small. Capsules } in. diam., the minute subulate teeth very distant.— 
Easily confounded with O. dichotoma, but distinguished by the divaricate cyme- 
branches, corolla, and larger capsules. I refer it with hesitation to the Senegal plant, 
which has an equally open pyramidal eyme and long-pedicelled flowers, and of which 
there is a variety with sessile or short pedicelled flowers. The corolla is much shorter 
in the Indian plant, but the specimens are too few for a strict comparison. 
14. O. retrorsa, Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 12; stem retrorsely scabrid, leaves in 
fascicled whorls short linear-oblong obtuse flat scabrid, stipules with median 
bristles, cymes glabrous spreading, capsules sessile and pedicelled didymous, 
calyx-teeth much shorter than the long slender corolla-tube, corolla-lobes short. 
Scixpg; near Kurrachee, Stocks.-— DISTRIB. Arabia. 
Stock woody, branched from the base; branches 12-18 in., slender. Leaves 2) 
in.; nerves indistinct. Flowers scattered on the long eyme-branches. Corolla-tube 
jin, glabrous. Capsule $ in. diam., glabrous. [ 
15. O. gracilis, DC. Prodr. iv. 431 (Kohautia); stem SEN 
lous or glabrate, leaves not fascieled narrow linear acuminate glabrqus flat, 
stipules truncate, cyme-branches slender, capsules p obovoid glóbose or 
hemispheric, corolla-lobes linear, Hedyotis gracilis, Wall. 7n Roxb. Fl. Ind., 
ed. Carey E Wall. i. 871; Cat. 843. H. stricta, Wall. in As. Res. xiii. 960. 
H. fusca, Ham. in Don Prodr. 134. IL. aspera, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 92. 
Kohautia sp., Griff. Notul. iv. 265; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 477. 
Hilly districts of India. TROPICAL HriwALAYA, alt. 1-5500 ft., from Garwhal to 
Sikkim, Birma, and plains of N. Bexaar. BELGAUM, Ritchie; TRAVANCORE, Meddome., 
—Distris. Ava. 
Slender, erect, 6-12 in., sparingly branched. Leaves erect, 2-34 by vo} in.; 
nerves indistinct. Cyme-branches spreading in flower, erect in fruit; pedicels very 
slender. Corolla Xin. brown. Capsules very variable in length, 4-4 in. ! 
16. O. stricta, Linn. Mant. 200; slender, glabrous, diffusely branched, 
leaves from linear-lanceolate and flat to almost filiform with recurved )argins, 
stipules truncate, cyme-branches long slender, calyx-teeth subulate not orbe 
