8 RUBIACEE (Sond.) [ Hedyotis. 
Has. Natal, Krauss. 129. Sanderson, 200. Gueinzius, 120; Gerr. § M‘K. 864. 
(Herb. Sd., D.) 
A shrub 8-12 feet high. Axillary spines }-1 inch long. Leaves 1}-2 inches long, 
1 inch or more in width, tapering into a short petiole, glabrous or nearly so. Stipules 
short, acute, very broad at the base. Pedicels 6-8 lines long. Tube of calyx 3 lines, 
the veined limb 2 lines long. Corolla white, tube shorter than the calyx, with a 
hairy ring in the throat, segments patent, 6-8 lines in diameter. Stigma bifid. Fruit 
when dry very hard, the size of a small walnut, crowned by the limb of the calyx. 
TRIBE Il.—HEDYOTIDEE (Gen. VI.) 
VI. HEDYOTIS, Lam, 
Calyz-tube ovate or subglobose, limb 4-, rarely 5-toothed. Corolla 
tubular, limb 4-, rarely 5-lobed, throat villous or glabrous. Stamens ex- 
serted a little, or sessile within the tube. Stigma simple or bifid. Cap- 
sule subglobose, membranous, crowned with the distant calycine lobes, 
2-celled, dehiscing at the summit. Seeds very numerous, minute, affixed 
to a subglobose placenta. Wgyht. et Arn. Prodr. Fl. penins. Ind, or. 1, 407. 
Small herbaceous plants with opposite leaves, setulose stipules, and axillary or ter- 
minal, 1-2 or many-flowered, corymbose or somewhat spiked, often long peduncles. 
Name from f5us, sweet, ovs, an ear ; the leaves are oval, soft, and firm, and have 
been compared to ears. . 
Leaves suborbicular or spathulate ... ... ... ... ... ... (18) tenella, 
Leaves small (ovate, lanceolate, linear.) : 
a, Corolla with short tube and 4-cleft limb : 
Flowers densely corymbose ... ... ... ... «.. (4) chlorophylla, 
Flowers capitate ... 0... 0... iprteae (2) cephalotes, 
Fl. cymose; perennial ; stem and lvs. pubescent ; 
in fl. glabrous Sk Wee” ae (3) Gerrardi, 
Pedicels axillary, 1-2 flowered. 
Annual, pedicels 3 times longer than the calyx (5) scabrida. 
Annual, pedicels as long or shorter than the 
calyx, leaves six lineslong ... ... .... (4) Capensis, 
Suffruticose, pedicels geminate ; lvs, 14 inch long (6) geminifiora, 
b, Corolla with a long terete tube and 4-lobed limb : 
1, Flowers terminal, umbellate ... ... .... .... (12) Amatymbica. 
2, Flowers terminal, tufted or densely panicled : 
Fruit papillose-scabrous .. Sarees ee 
pepe vey salle ag. SO Seen a es ee 
3, Flowers axillary, or loosely panicled, fruit smooth. 
(11) thymifolia, 
(16) Natalensis. 
Annual, scabrous; leaves linear-lanceolate ... (9) brachyloba. 
Annual, glabrous, or nearly so : 
_ Lys. lance-linear, flat... .. ¢. (8) Heynei. 
Lys. narrow-linear, with revolute margins (10) stricta. 
Lys. ovate-subcordate, flat ... ... ... (14) rupicola, 
Perennial ; leaves glabrous, lanceolate (1 inch) (13) decumbens, 
Perennial ; lvs. hairy-scabrous, ovate ... ... (15) 
Suffruticose ; leaves with a recurved mucro.,. (7) setifera. 
¢, Corolla '§-lohed |. cis vi an a ae ee POR 
a, Oldenlandia; corolla with a short tube and a 4-cleft limb. (Sp. 1-6.) 
' 1, HL. chlorophylla (Hochst. in Flora, 1844); suffruticose, erect, stem 
terete or subangular, smooth or a little scabrous; leaves lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, 5-nerved, yellowish-green, subscabrous ; stipules on 
both sides of 5 or 7 bristles ; flowers aggregated in a terminal dense co- 
rymb,; calyx 4-fid, lobes subulate, recurved at the apex; corolla equal- 
ling the calyx, throat hairy, 
