44* ; TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Oldenlandia. 
‘Obs. This species is so much like my L. parviflora as not to be 
distinguished, except by attending to the germ, or capsule. In that 
plant it is shorter, thicker, always straight, and with numerous 
crowded seeds in each cell, attached to a projecting receptacle, as 
in L. alternifolia, Gert. Carp. i. 158. £ 31. — In this there is only 
one vertical row in each cell attached to the axis. 
OLDENLANDIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 205. 
Calyx four-parted, permanent. Corol one-petalled, four-parted, 
Capsule inferior, two-celled, many-seeded. Receptacle free, fastened 
to the partition by the base only. 
Obs. Would it not be better to omit this Greytnetigi jin of the 
generic character, and unite our Indian species of Hedyotis to Ol- 
denlandia? For except the attachment of their respective recepta- 
cles 1 can find no other mark by which the two genera are to be dis- 
tinguished, and surely this is too minute and inconspicuous for the 
travelling Botanist to be able at all times to discover. 
1.0. wmbellata, Linn. Sp.P1. ed. Willd.i. 676. Roxb. Corom. Pl. i. 
N. 3,* 
Erect. Leaves opposed, tern, and quatern, near scabrous. Umbels 
terminal. Inside of the corol hairy. 
Teling. Cheri-Velloo. - 
Tam. Saya-wer, or Imburel. 
Much cultivated on the light sandy lands near the shores of Co- | 
romandel ; where the root is employed to dye the best, and most dü» 
rable red on cotton cloth. aS 
2. O. alata, Kénig’s Mss. 
Erect, four-sided. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, elliptic, smooth. 
Panicles terminal ; corol campanulate ; mouth shut with hairs. oa 
sules turbinate. pe i 
Beng. Gundha-baduli. , ra Lh 
Hedyotis racemosa, Linn. Sp; Pi. ed. Wii s I 
y Hedyotis, Lam.—N, W, 
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