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leaves, shorter stipules cut to near the base into bristles, and more spreading shorter 
cymes with divaricating capsules, 
7. A. lancifolia, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 135 (Hedyotis); peren- 
nial ?, erect, branched, leaves short-petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate 
pubescent, stipules with short bristles, cymes terminal and subterminal many- 
tlowered corymbose glabrate or hispid, capsules sessile subsolitary didymous 
hispid much broader than long, crown very prominent 2-lobed, cells 2-4-seeded. 
Hedyotis lancifolia, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 116. H. tubularis, Wall, Cat. 
876 A. (a seedling state). 
Mysore, Hottler, Heyne. Tus Concan, Nimmo, Dalzell, 4c. 
Stem stout, shining, 2-3 ft., brittle, most diffusely branched. Leaves 1-21 in., 
membranous; stipules short. Cymes often 4-6 in. diam., with slender di-trichoto- 
mous divaricating branches. Calyx-tecth subulate, many times shorter than the 
slender cylindric corolla-tube. Capsules always hispid with recurved calyx-teeth, 
sometimes } in. across the long axis. 
** Annuals. 
T Capsules pedicelled or sessile, solitary or subsolitary, not collected into heads. 
8. A. Rheedii, W. § A. Prodr. 409 (Hedyotis); annual, very slender, 
nearly glabrous, branches suberect, leaves petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate 
acuminate very membranous with minute scattered short hairs on both surfaces, 
stipules short crenate, cymes axillary and terminal very lax and open with long 
capillary peduncles and pedicels, capsules solitary or 2-nate short-pedicelled 
puberulous broadly didymous, crown much longer than the calyx-tube, cells 1-2- 
seeded, calyx-teeth very minute. Hedyotis latifolia, Dalz. in Hook, Kew Journ. 
ii. 183; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 116. H. racemosa, Wall. Cat. 875, in part. 
H. eapillipes, Schlecht. in Herb. Hohen. No. 847.—Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 25. 
Wurt PENINSULA ; on the hills from the Conean southwards. 
Stem 6 in.-2 ft. quite erect from tho base. Leaves 2-3 in., narrowed into the 
slender petiole, —Cyme-peduncles sometimes 3 in. branches 1-2 in. Flowers very 
i erolla rose, tube short cylindric. Capsules 4 in. diam., rather mem- 
alber bursting appearing as 4 connate cups; the calyx-tube in fruit very 
in any other species, and the dehiscence proportionably low. 
$ cina, Wall. Cat. 878 (Hedyotis); annual, erect, slender, 
glabrous, 1 ves small ovate-lanceolate acuminate ciliolate, cymes axillary and 
i fe = ered, capsules sessile and pedicelled broader than long with 
yX*teetli, cells 20—40-seeded, seeds peltate reticulate. 
very short 
in: E WouarAyA, from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 37000 ft, Kuasta Mrs., 
alt. 83-6000 ft. "era NaaronE, alt. 2-4000 ft. 
Stems 4-8 1n., simple or copiously branched from the base, shining, 4-angled. 
Leaves i-i in., membranous with sometimes a few minute scattered hairs; stipules 
withBhort lateral bristles. Cyme-peduncles and branches capillary. Corolla short, 
bw urpie. - nnd didymous, truneate, crown tumid often exceeding the minute 
i 
in clusters or heads. 
10 A. Montholoni, Hook. f.; annual, erect, glabrate or hispid, 
diffusely brahched, leaves petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute, stipules with 
short bristles, cymes terminal and subterminal peduncled rounded many-flowered 
not capitate, calyx-teeth small subulate with short hair-points, capsules clustered 
oa aig broader than long with a large double convex crown, cells 1-8- 
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