Oldenlandia.) LXXV. RUBIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 71 
much shorter than the campanulate corolla, capsule broadly turbinate, crown 
hemispheric. 
ManrABAN ; at Moulmein, Lobb, Parish. 
Whole plant 4-6 in., very flaccid; stem almost filiform. Leaves 3-1} in.; petiole 
very slender. mes shortly peduncled, terminal, with sometimes very reduced ones 
in the lower axils. Capsules the smallest of the genus, with very obscure calyx- 
teeth. 
DOUBTFUL INDIAN SPECIES. 
O. capitaris, DC. l c. 426, is probably O. corymbosa, L. 
O. racrEA, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, 1829, 159 (Gerontogea); DC. l. c. 427, 
is quite undeterminable. 
O.? uispma, DC. l.c. 428. Hedyotis hispida, Roth Nov. Sp. 95, is also undeter- 
minable. 
O. ? pepressa, Willd. Sp. i. 675; DC. l. c. 429. Hedyotis depressa, Roem. d Seh., 
is probably O. corymbosa. 
29. ANOTIS, DC. 
Herbs, prostrate or ascending, rarely erect ; stipules usually membranous or. 
with marginal bristles. Calyx-tube short; lobes 4, with broad intervening 
sinuses. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped ; lobes 4, usually shorter than the 
tube, valvate in bud. Stamens 4, on the mouth of the corolla; anthers included 
or exserted. Ovary 2- rarely 3-4-celled; style filiform, stigmas 2-4 linear ; 
ovules few or rarely solitary in each cell, on placentas ascending from near the 
base of the septum. Capsule did ymous or laterally compressed, crown produced 
between the calyx-lobes, loculicidally 2-valved at the top, rarely indehiscent, 
cells 1- or few-seeded. Seeds peltate boat-shaped or rarely lano-convex, testa 
very rarely winged, coarsely pitted ; embryo clavate in horny albumen.— 
—DusrRrm. Species about 25, tropical Asiatic and Australian, with 1 American. 
der, I. Buanotis. Capsule turgid, dehiscing loculicidally by a broad 
top above the calyx-teeth. 
* Perennials. 
l. A. ingrata, Wall. Cat. 863, in part (Hedyotis); root perennial, 
branches stout elongate diffuse glabrous or hairy at the nodes, leaves petioled 
ovate-lanceolate acuminate puberulous above and beneath, nerves numerous, 
stipules with many long bristles, cymes terminal and subterminal, flowers 
c calyx-teeth large, capsules shortly pedicelled hemispherie didymous, 
cells ndany-seeded. Hedyotis stipulata, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6195, in part. 
Moist places in the TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Nipal, Wallich, to Bhotan, Griffith, 
alt. 4-8000 ft. Kuasta M's., alt. 4-6000 ft. 
Stem 2-3 ft., straggling, rooting at the nodes below, brittle. Leaves 14-3 in., 
membranous, blackish when dry; nerves 8-10 pair; stipular bristles hairy, + in. 
Flowers shortly pedicelled, white. Corolla-tube à in. long, broad, lobes oblong, 
glabrous or hairy. Capsules glabrous or hairy.—W hole plant foetid. 
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2. [os gracilis, Hook. f.; very slender, diffuse, stem glabrous or pubes- 
cent, laves petioled ovate acuminate sparsely hairy above and beneath, stipules 
bristly, cymes axillary and terminal once or twice unequally 2-3-chotomously 
forked) with capitate clusters of glabrous flowers, calyx-teeth lanceolate recurved. 
TriwPERATE Sek and E. Nipat, alt. 5-6000 ft, J. D. H. KuasiA Mrs., at 
Moflong, alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. H. 4 T. T. 
A ivery slender perennial, with the stem rooting for a considerable length ; inter- 
nodes long. Leaves 1-1} in., membranous, dark above when dry, paler beneath, 
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