Hedyotis. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 269 
a9. H. scandens. R. | vid 
Perennial, scandent, round, smooth. ` Leaves broad lanceolate. 
.. Panicles corymbiform, terminal; mouth of the tube of the corol and 
apex of the style bearded. wog 
Gujee, the vernacular name in Silhet, where. it is indigenous; 
flowers and ripens its seed during the hot and rainy seasons.* 
Stems and branches perennial, round, smooth, scandent.— Leaves 
short-petioled, broad-lanceolate, smooth, entire.—Stipules cup-sliap- 
ed, connecting the leaves, with a short process on each: side between 
the leaves.— Panicle corymbiform, terminal, sub-globular, through- 
out trichotomous, all the ramifications a little villous.— Bractes li- 
near, spreading.—Calyx four-toothed.—Corol with the tube longer 
than the calyx, its mouth and the base of the four linear segments of 
the borders of the corol very woolly.—-Germ oval, two-celled; ovula 
numerous, attached to the sub-globular receptacles, rising from the 
middle of the partition. Style longer than the corol, apex woolly ;. 
stigma two-cleft,—Capsule ovate, two-celled, many-seeded. 1 
4, H. lineata. R. 
"Annual, diffuse, hairy. Leaves sessile, ventricose-lanceolar, lon- 
gitudinally marked with simple, parallel veins. . Peduncles axillary, 
two or three together, pretty long, many-flowered. Capsula round, 
hairy. 
‘Native of omen ms where it blossoms during the rains. ee 
5. H. Avsicilüpi: Linn. . 
Sub-dichotomous diffuse, adscending, villous. Leaves lanceolate, 
sub-séssile, smooth above, many-nerved below. Flowers subsessile, 
densely whorled. Capsules villous. Vi rud 
Mariguti. Rheed. Hort. Mal. x. p. 63. t. 32. F 
À native of Silhet and Nepala, where the plant blossoms ie 
the hot and rainy seasons. From the former place the plant was 
> Itis very common about Katmandu where it blossoms from December to March. 
Native nane Gookee.—N, Ww. 
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