Oldenlandia.] Lxxv. RuBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 69 
the short corolla-tube, capsules pedicelled small obovoid. Hedyotis maritima, 
Wall. Cat. 6192, in part; W. & A. Prodr. 417. H. graminifolia, Linn. f. 
Suppl. i. 119. O. graminifolia and O. linifolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 425. 
Sandy sea-coasts of TixxEvELLv and S. Carnatic, Rottler, Wight, Ee, CEYLON, 
common near the sea. 
Annual, repeatedly triehotomously branched from the base, 4 in.-2 ft. high; 
branches very slender, ending in wiry raceme-like cymes with distant flowers. Leaves 
1-2 in., very variable, sometimes membranous and j in. broad. Flowers all pedi- 
celled. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, 3 in. Capsules & in. long or less. 
17. O. Shuteri, Hook. f.; branches stout woody below ascending 
sparingly divided, leaves short linear-lanceolate scabrid above, margins revolute, 
stipules truncate, cyme- branches short stiff, calyx-teeth subulate shorter than 
the cylindric corolla-tube, capsules pedicelled small ovoid. Hedyotis maritima, 
Wall. Cat. 6192, in part; Wight Cat. 1314. 
Maneras, Shuter, Wight. 
Very different from O. stricta, with which it is mixed in Herb. Wallich; much 
stoutér, with scabrid rigid leaves 1-2 in. long and abbreviated cymes, in which the 
capsules are sometimes almost crowded into heads; the corolla-tube, too, appears to 
be cylindric- not funnel-shaped. 
18. O. coccinea, Royle Ill. 241, t. 53 (Kohautia); very slender, erect, 
scaberulous, leaves opposite not fascicled narrowly linear-lanceolate acute 
margins recurved, stipules bristly, cymes sparingly branched few-flowered, 
calyx-teeth very long equalling or shorter than the cylindric corolla-tube, cap- 
sules oblong or subglobose. 
Western TEMPERATE Hrwaraya; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 3-8000 ft., 
Royle, &e. 
Annual; stem 12-18 in., simple below or throughout its length; branches erect, 
terminating in long-peduncled cymes. eaves in distant pairs, 1-2 by 45-4 in., rough 
to the touch. Flowers subsessile, pedicels lengthening in fruit. Corolla searlet, tube 
i in, lobes oblong. Capsules very variable, i-i in. long, often shorter than the 
slender calyx-teeth. 
SuperN. III. Gonotheca. Calyi-tecth short, broadly triangular, very 
small in fruit.  Corolla-tube short. Ovary terete, 4-angled or 4-winged. Seeds 
numerous, subglobose, testa deeply coarsely pitted. 
19/0. paniculata, Linn.; Burm. Fl. Ind. 38, t. 15, f. 1; annual, 
glabrous, branches erect or ascending succulent, leaves petioled elliptic-ovate or 
oblong subaeute flat, stipules truncate with median points or bristles, cymes 
Gesi? subterminal, calyx-tube not produced above the ovary, capsules on 
slendér pedicels didymous. DC. Prodr. iv. 427. O. alata, Roxb, Fl. Ind.i. 421 
(not of Koenig). O. multiflora, Cav. Ic. vi. 59, t. 574, f. 2. O. racemosa and 
ramosissima, Bl. Bijd. 072. Hedyotis racemosa, W. E A. Prodr. 414; Wt. Ic. 
t. 312; Wall. Cat. 865, in part. 11. paniculata, Dene.; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
1877, ii. 134. H. minima, Heyne; Wall. Cat. 877. 
Eastern BENGAL, SIKKIM, Assam, SILHET, Peer, the Maray Pxninsutra, the 
Carnagic, and Crytox.—Distris. Birma, Malay, and Philippine Islands, China, 
Polyn@sia. 
Siet: or slender, succulent, 6—18 in. high, erect or diffuse, branched from the 
base ;/ branches obtusely 4-angled, robust or slender. Leaves 3-3 by 4-1} in., bright 
green, soft, nerves indistinct, narrowed into the short or long petiole. gar in the 
upper axils, short, 3-8-fld., panicled, peduncles and pedicels stout or slender. Flowers 
minute, white. Capsules very variable, 3-2 in. diam., turbinate didymous or hemi- 
spheric, terete or 4-ribbed, membranous; crown usually exceeding the calyx-teeth.— 
A very variable weed, sometimes erect, with stem and lower branches as stout as a 
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