70 LXXV. RUBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Oldenlandia. 
goose-quill, at others slender and diffuse; cymes and fruit especially variable, the 
former in slenderness and length, the latter in size and shape. "There are no speci- 
mens of H. paniculata in Herb. Linn., but as Burman’s figure of what he assumes to 
be Linnzus' plant is a fair one, I have adopted the name. Roxburgh's O. paniculata, 
from the Moluccas, with rooting stems and biennial root, must be a different plant, 
Lamareks' H. racemosa, usually cited under this, is figured as having smooth seeds, 
and is therefore a Hw-oldenlandia. H, minima, Heyne (Wall. Cat. 877), is a seedling 
state, apparently, of this species. 
20. O. biflora, Linn.; W. $ A. Prodr. (Hedyotis); annual, glabrous, 
diffuse, succulent, leaves petioled elliptic or oblong acute or subobtuse flat, 
stipules truncate with a few points or short bristles, cymes short 1-4-fld., calyx- 
tube not produced above the ovary, capsules shortly pedicelled turbinate 4- 
angled base acute. Hedyotis biflora, Wall, Cat. 879. 
Carnatic, Rottler, Wight, &e. Cryton, Gardner, Keelart. 
This very closely resembles small specimens of O. paniculata, and is distinguished 
by the cymes seldom having more than 3 flowers, and often reduced to 1, and by the 
larger fruit, more turbinate and angled, and with usually larger calyx-teeth.—'This 
Brown declares to be the true O. biflora of Linnseus, not that of Roxburgh and De 
Candolle, which is O. corymbosa. 
21. O. alata, Koen. in W. & A. Prodr. 413 (Hedyotis) ; glabrous, succu- 
lent, branches stout, leaves subsessile elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate subacute or 
obtuse, stipules truncate toothed, cymes axillary subcapitate, calyx-tube 4- 
winged produced above the ovary and eupular, capsule large turbinate 4-angled 
and -winged. O, pterita, Mig. FI. Ind. Bat. ii. 193. Hedyotis alata, Koen. in 
Wall. Cat. 6196. H. pterita, Bl. Bijd. 972. Gonotheca Blumei, DC. Prodr. 
iv. 429; Endl. Atakt. t. 22. 
Cincans, Rottler, Roxburgh, Wight—Disrrie. Malay Islands. 
A stout annual, 6-12 in. high, with the habit of branching and foliage of O. 
paniculata, but the leaves are almost sessile, the cymes reduced to axillary and ter- 
minal heads, and the capsules are much larger, À in. long, very shortly pedicelled, 
surmounted by a cupular 4-lobed prolongation of the calyx-tube, and has 4 lateral 
wings, of which 2 are shorter than the others.— The cellular tissue is full of raphides. 
22. O. nudicaulis, Roth Nov. Sp. 95; annual, erect, sparsely hairy, 
stem furfuraceous short naked or with 2 leaves below, leaves 4 in a whorl rarely 
opposite large membranous elliptic or ovate, nerves distinct, cymes long-petluncled 
fascicled terminal much dichotomously branched, branches ca illary, cal yx-teeth 
minute subulate or shorter than the corolla-tube obscure in fruit, capsule hemi- 
spheric. O. rotundifolia, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii, 530. O. ovatifolia and Tgu- 
lacea, DC. Prodr. iv. 427, 428. Hedyotis scapigera, Br. in Wall. Cat. 88). H. 
nudicaulis, JV. $ A. Prodr. 416; Bedd. Ic. Dl. Ind. Or. t. 34. H. ovatifolia, 
Cav, Ic. 573. H. rotundifolia, Ham. in Wall. Cat, 6190 (not of DC.)). H. 
spergulacea, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 194. 
Tropica HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Sikkim, the Kuasa Mrs., and ASSAM, 
ascending to 5000 ft. Travancore and Marson. (Not in Ceylon.)—DisTnin.; Jaya. 
Much resembling Mollwgo nudicaulis in the inflorescence. ‘Stem stout. erect, 
1-2 in., with or without a pair of small leaves, naked to the first whorl of eaves, 
simple or 3-chotomously forked, each branch usually bearing 4 unequal leaves in a 
whorl. Leaves shortly petioled, 3-2 in., tip obtuse or rounded. Cymes very open ; 
flowers very small, as are the capsules. \ 
25. O. Parishii, Mook. f.; annual, very slender, sparsely hairy, stem 
short simple, leaves petioled ovate acuminate membranous, cymes terminal dicho- 
tomous open few-flowered, peduncles and pedicels capillary, calyx-teeth minute: 
