410 RUBIACE E. Hepyotis. 
The ovary coheres with the whole tube of the calyx, projecting slightly 
above it and then free, slightly 2-lobed, 2-celled, with 4 ovules: the ovules are — 
apparently attached by their base to near the bottom of the cell. Style filiform ; 
i bifid ; segments short-linear, recurved. Seeds thin, cup-shaped, at- 
ed by their base, two in each cell, with the concave sides next each other, 
and so approximated as at first to resemble one globose seed. Albumen hor- 
ny. Embryo linear in the middle of the axis. We have only been able to 
examine one flower on the unique specimen in Dr Wight's herbarium, and 
that in the state of bud and exceedingly minute: the filaments were very 
short, but perhaps become longer during flowering. Dr Wight’s specimen is 
about 8 inches high, that figured by Rheede about 4 inches. 
$ 2. Capsule somewhat orbicular, much compressed, marked with a deep furrow on 
each side, dehiscing at the apex within the calyz-limb, and then at maturity only : 
seeds 2, thin-lenticular, attached to the stalked small placenta from the middle of 
the dissepiments ; the one erect, the other pendulous ; one of them occasionally 
abortive. 
1255. (9) H. (A.) Wightiana (Wall.:) herbaceous, diffuse, hairy ; hairs 
short, flattish, jointed: stems rooting near the base, 4-angled: leaves ovate 
or oval, usually slightly acute, short-petioled : stipules entire, with a longish 
linear point: flowers small, somewhat capitate, heads terminal o7 axillary, 
sessile: capsule compressed, crowned with the erect teeth of the calyx, 4 
seeded.—z'; small, stems about 3 or 4 inches long, leaves 4-5 lines long.— 
Wight! cat. n. 1299.—Hedyotis Wightiana, Wall.! L. n. 6194.—8; larger, 
stems about a foot long, leaves from 8 lines to an inch long.—Spermacoce 
compressa, Wall.! L. n. 6187. z; Neelgherries. 
The stems of our var. £ (from Silhet) appear compressed only by the pro- 
cess of drying ; the four angles may be observed their whole length. 
83. Capsule coriaceous, slightly compressed, splitting only at the apex, and there as 
if 2-lipped : seeds convex on the outside, concave on the other, and there marked 
with a linear ridge. 
1256. (10) H. (A.) monosperma (W. & A.:) herbaceous, procumbent, 
rooting : stems and branches slender, glabrous below, hairy towards the ex- 
tremities : leaves petioled with the petioles more than one-half the length of 
the limb, deltoid-ovate, acute ; upper side thickly under thinly sprinkle 
with flat jointed hairs: stipules with 2-4 hairy bristles on each side: corymbs 
somewhat terminal, simple, small, few-flowered : corolla shortly infundibuli- 
form, the tube about twice the length of the calyx-segments: capsule com- 
pressed-globose, crowned with the distant spreading calyx-teeth ; seeds soli- 
tary! in each cell.—Wight ! cat. n. 1295. Neelgherries, growing among 
Inoss. ; 
The albumen is fleshy : embryo terete. Seed always solitary, very convex 
on the back, slightly concave in front. 
1257. (11) H. (A.) deltoidea (W. & A.:) herbaceous, procumbent: stems 
flexuose: petioles and inflorescence glabrous: leaves deltoid-ovate, acute, 
tapering a little at the base into a petiole about a third of the length of the 
limb: upper sides sprinkled with short flat jointed hairs, under pale, very 
sparingly sprinkled with hairs particularly on the nerves: bristles of the sti- 
pules about 2 on each side, much shorter than the petioles: corymbs termi- 
nal, peduncled, trichotomous : calyx-segments oblong, enlarged after flower- 
ing: corolla infundibuliform ; tube slender, 4-5 times longer than the one 
limb: filaments considerably exserted.— Wight! eat. n. 1296.—— Dindygu' 
mountains. - ; 
We have not seen the fruit. The stems appear almost suffrutescent at the — 
