Anotis. | LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 75 
Secr. II. Patzia. Fruit compressed or flattened, tardily dehiscent or 
indehiscent. 
* Fruit much flattened, indehiscent or obscurely dehiscent in the crown. 
15. A. nummularia, Arn. Pugill. Pl. Ind. Or. 23 (Hedyotis); perennial, 
hairy, stems long stout ascending, leaves sessile orbicular or broadly ovate 
obtuse or apieulate glabrous or hairy, stipules of a few bristles or obsolete, 
cymes terminal long-peduncled simple or }-chotomous, flowers capitate, fruit 
flat orbicular indehiscent, cells 1-2-seeded. 
Cryton; abundant in wet places; alt. 5-8000 ft. 
Stem 8-18 in. from a creeping base, sparingly branched, nodes often distant. Leaves 
uniform throughout the stem, 4-2 in. diam., coriaceous, usually with crisped hairs, 
especially beneath. Cymes on stout peduncles 1—4 in., each usually once 3-chotomously 
divided, branches terminating in a head of flowers 1-1 in. diam.; flowers sessile. Calyz- 
teeth short. Fruit with 2 ridges on each face, not at all didymous, contracted below 
the short calyx-teeth. 
Var. glabra, Thw. Enum, 142; quite glabrous, leaves ovate very coriaceous flat or 
with recurved margins. H. nummulariformis, Arn. l. c.—I reluctantly follow 
Thwaites in regarding this distinct-looking plant as a variety of A. nummularia. 
16. A. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 6194 (Hedyotis); perennial, tomentose, 
diffuse, leaves sessile or subsessile ovate subacute, stipules short deeply toothed, 
cymes small terminal and on short axillary branches sessile capitate few-flowered 
involucrate, fruit orbicular compressed indehiscent 2—4-c»lled, cells 1—2-seeded. 
Hedyotis Wightiana and H. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6194, 6189. Oldenlandia 
Teysmaniana, Ap, A7. Ind. Bat. ii. 354. Spermacoce compressa, Wali. Cat.. 
6187. 
Temprrate HIMALAYA, alt. 4-8000 ft., from Nepal to Bhotan. Kuasta Mrs., alt. 
4—5000 ft. Mountains of the Western PENINSULA, alt. 5-7000 ft.—DISTRIB. Ava, 
Malay Islands, Cochin China. 
Stems 2-18 in. leaves clothed with soft curly spreading hairs. Leaves $-1l in., 
variable in breadth. Heads involucrate by 2 leaves. Flowers white blue or purplish, 
shortly pedieelled. Fruit very small, contracted towards the short calyx-teeth, grooved 
at the union of the carpels, rugose when dry.—The Western Peninsula specimens are 
much shorter than the Northern or Eastern. Clarke has observed that the flowers 
are white in the 2-carpellary, light blue in the 3-carpellary, and blue in the 4- 
carpellary specimens. 
** Fruit compressed, finally septicidally dehiscent. 
17. A. monosperma, W. $ A. Prodr. 410 (Hedyotis); perennial, 
slender, diffuse, more or less hairy, leaves petioled small ovate subacute, stipules 
with short lateral bristles, cymes small short terminal peduncled sparingly un- 
equally {forked few-flowered bracteate, capsules shortly pedicelled subglobose, cells 
1-2-seeded. II. monosperma, Wight Ic. t. 1031. H. mysurensis, Wall. Cat, 882. 
Oldenlandia mysurensis, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 531. 
Niveuerry and Putney Mrs., Heyne, Wight, &e. 
A small-leaved much branched delicate species, more or less clothed with crisped 
hairs. Leaves 4-1 in., petiole often half theirlength. Cymes including the peduncles. 
rarely } in. long; flowers minute. Corolla-tube broadly funnel-shaped, about twice 
the length of the subulate calyx-lobes. Capsules A in. diam., with recurved calyx- 
teeth, djdymous ; cells usually 1-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, deeply pitted. 
18. A. Richardiana, Arn. Pugill. Pl. Ind. Or. 22 (Hedyotis); peren- 
nial, diffuse, slender, glabrous, or more or less hairy or villous, leaves petioled 
ovate I stipules with long hairy bristles, cymes terminal and subterminal on: 
| 
| 
} 
