Hedyotis. | RUBIACE& (Sond.) 11 
and pedicellate ; teeth of the calyx twice shorter than the tube ; corolla 
with very long tube and linear-oblong lobes ; fruit smooth. 
Has. Komseep, near Springbokkeel. Feb, Zeyh. 761. (Herb. Sd.,D.) 
A span high, beset with minute tubercles. Root longish, simple. Leaves 1 inch 
long, 2 lines broad, 1-nerved. Panicle subcorymbose, 3-4 inches long. Flowers 
geminate, one sessile or nearly so, the other on a 2-4 lines long pedicel. Bracteoles 
minute, Corolla 5-6 lines long ; the lobes 1 line long, } line broad. Capsule glo- 
bose, crowned by the minute calyx-teeth, 1 line long. 
10. H. stricta (Smith, Rees’s Cyclop. vol. 17, no. 21); annual, smooth 
or a little tubercled; branches erect, subcompressed ; leaves narrow- 
linear, with revolute margins; stipules joined to the petioles by a very 
narrow margin, furnished each with 2 short bristles; flowers trichoto- 
mously corymbose; pedicels unequal; teeth of the calyx shorter than 
the tube; corolla with very long tube and oblong lobes, fruit smooth. 
Kohautia stricta, DC. 1. ¢. p. 430. K. thymifolia, LE. Mey. in Hb. Drege. 
b. non a. 
Has. Winterveld and Nieuweveld, Drege. ; Taba Uncha, Gamkariver, Springbok- 
keel, Zeyh. 759, 760. Namaqualand, 4. Wyley, DecJan. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
ery nearly allied to H. brachyloba, but differs in the more straight habit, narrower 
leaves (1 inch long, 4 line broad), which are quite smooth and glabrous, somewhat 
larger flowers and fruit. The cyme or corymbose panicle is about 1 inch long. 
Calyx 1 line, the tube of corolla 6 lines, the lobes 2 lines long. Capsule 1 lines long. 
11. H. thymifolia (Presl.! Bot. Bemerk. p. 85) ; suffruticose, scabrous; 
branches erect, quadrangular; leaves linear, acute, with revolute mar- 
gins; bristles of stipules 2, setaceous; panicle 2-3-chotomous, many- 
flowered ; flowers sessile and pedicellate; teeth of the calyx as long as 
the tube; corolla with a very long tube and oblong lobes; fruit subglo- 
bose, papillate-scabrous. H. thymifolia, B. Mey. in Herb. Dr. a, c. non, 6. 
Has. On the Zwartkops. and the Garip, Drege; Vaalriver and Taba Uncha, Zeyh. 
757; Namaqualand, A. Wyley, Rev. H. Whitehead. Sept.—Dec. (Herb, Sd., D.) 
1~14 foot high; stem, branches, leaves, pedicels, and calyx scabrous from minute, 
acute tubercles. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 1 line broad. Bristles of the stipules as 
long or longer than the membrane. Pedicels 3-4 times longer than the fruit. Corolla 
7-8 lines long. Capsule the size of a small pea, crowned by the subulate calyx-lobes. 
12, H. Amatymbica (Hochst. in pl. Krauss.); perennial, glabrous, 
glaucescent ; stem erect, much compressed, simple or branched ; leaves 
narrow linear, cuspidate, canaliculate above ; bristles of stipules 3, 
setaceous; flowers terminal, wmbellate ; teeth of the calyx as long as the 
tube ; corolla with a very long tube and oblong lobes; fruit subglobose, 
smooth. Kohautia Amatymbica, LE. & Z.!2292. K.7657. Hb. Drege. 
Has. Katriviers and Winterberg, Keyrivier, Caffraria ; Zwartehoogdens, Albany, 
E. & Z. Zeyh. 758, Col. Bolton, Zuurebergen, Drege; Port Natal, Gueinzius, 35. J. 
Sanderson, 245. Magalisberg, Burke § Zeyh. Apl. Jul. Oct. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Root ndicular. Stem 1-14 foot. Leaves 14-3 inches long, 1 line broad. 
Umbel 6-10-flowered. Calyx about 2 lines long, the teeth subulate. Tube of the 
corolla 1 inch, lobes 3-4 lines long. Capsule as large as a pea, didymous, crowned 
with the 4, rarely 5, rather shorter calyx-teeth. 
13. H. decumbens (Hochst.! 1. c. p. 67); perennial, glabrous; stem 
decumbent, hexagonal ; branches erect, dichotomous ; leaves lanceolate, 
