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AKnocia.] LXXV, RUBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 129 
base. W. E A. Prodr. 489; Wt. IU, t.128; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 111. 
K. teres, DC. Prodr. iv. 569; Wall. Cat. 819, in part. K. exserta, DC. l c. 
K. umbellata, Banks; Spreng. Syst. i. 406. K. sumatrensis, Wall. Cat. 6183. 
K. mollis, Br. in Wall. Cat. 820, not of W. & A. K. stricta, Thw. Enum. 159. 
Spermacoce ? teres and S. exserta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10; Fl. Ind. i, 367, 368 ; 
ed, Carey § Wall. i. 373, 374. S. sumatrensis, Retz Obs. iv. 23, ex Cham. A 
Schl. in Linnea, iii. 316, not of Roch, Fl. Ind. i. 900. ? Cuncea trifida, Ham. 
in Don Prodr. 135. 
Throughout tropical India, from Garwhal in the Western HIMALAYA, eastward to 
Sikkim, ascending to 5000 ft., and in the Kuasta Mrs. to 4000 ft.; to CEYLON and 
Matacca.—Disrris. Malay Archipelago and Tropical Australia. 
An erect slender annual, 1-4 ft.; stem cylindric or obscurely 4-angled, sparingly 
3-chotomously branched, internodes long. Leaves 3-5 by 3-1 in., pale greenish or 
brown when dry, narrowed into the short petiole; stipular bristles 2 in. Flowers 
ig-* in, very small, white or purplish. Calyx-teeth minute, triangular, subequal. 
Corolla-tube hairy within, Fruit A in., sessile or shortly pedicelled, 4-angled.—I do 
not doubt this being the Cuncea trifida of Don's Prodromus, though the flowers are 
described as yellow and the fruit as a berry. Roxburgh's figure of Spermacoce teres 
differs from his description in the 2-partible fruit and plano-conyex seed ; he deseribes 
the seed of S. teres as round, which it should not be. 
** Ripe mericarps either connate, the fruit falling away as a whole with the 
central columella, or the mericarps separating from one another and falling away , 
from the columella. 
Calyx-teeth all very small, equal or one rather larger than the rest. 
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2. K. mollis, JV. $ A. Prodr. 430, not of Br.; pubescent villous or 
tomentose, leaves petioled rarely sessile ovate or lanceolate, stipules with hairy 
bristles, fruits crowded ellipsoid, mericarps connate and adnate to the columella. 
K. corymbosa, Thw. Enum. 151; Schlecht. in Herb. Hohen. n. 991. 9 K. stricta, 
Gaertn. Fruct, i. 122, t, 25. K. teres, Wall. Cat. 819, in part. 
Mountains of the Western Peninsuta, from the Concan southwards, alt, 3-7000 
ft. Cryton, Walker; Hangalle, alt. 5000 ft., Thwaites. 
An erect annual ?, 1-3 ft., very variable in size; much more robust branched and 
leafy than K. corymbosa; branches 4-angled. Leaves 14-5 by 3-13 in., brown when 
dry, with often rufous hairs; petiole 1 in. Cymes with short spreading branches ; 
flowers crowded, blueish, A in. long. Fruits smooth, terete, glabrous, is in. long, 
black when dry, crowned with the rounded calyx-teeth.—In Ceylon specimens the 
petiole is 1 in. and very slender, in a specimen from Ritchie the leaves are quite 
sessile, Gaertner represents the mericarp of his K. stricta (from Ceylon) as sepa- 
rating and subacute dorsally, as in K. zeylanica, which has, however, very different 
calyx-teeth from Gaertner's figure. 
3. K. Heyneana, DC. Prodr. iv. 570; glabrous or nearly so, leaves 
petioled ovate or linear-lanceolate, stipules with long rigid glabrous bristles, 
fruits racemose linear-oblong, mericarps separating. W. & A. Prodr. 440. 
Spermacoce corymbosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 98 (ev. W. E A), 
SouTHERN Mysore and Carnatic; Dindygul Mts. and Courtallum, Wight. 
Erect, leafy; branches robust, terete, shining. Leaves 2-3 by 3-1} in., rather 
coriaceous, brown when dry, acute or acuminate ; stipular bristles stout, smooth, 1-2 
in. Cymes puberulous, branches elongating after flowering as in K. corymbosa, but 
fruits pedieelled. Fruit pale, narrow, with a groove on each side where the mericarps 
separate, 
4. K. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 6184; glabrous, slender, leaves sessile 
linear obtuse recurved, stipules entire or 2—3-cleft, fruits few short didymous. 
truncate, mericarps separating. IV. § A. Prodr. 440. 
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