412 RUBIACEX. - Hzpvorte. 
belong H, ulmifolia, Wall.! L. n. 862, H. subcarnosa, Wall.! L. n. 860 (perhaps iden- 
tical with the preceding), H. glabra, Br. in Wall.! L. n. 848 (Knozia glabra, DC., 
or Spermacoce pie oxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1116), and H~ vestita, Br. in Wall.! 
L. n. 847: to the more compact, H. costata, Br. in Wall.! L. n. 849, and H. nervosa, 
Lam?, Wall.! L. n. 857. We have not seen the flowers of H. congesta, Br. in Wall. 
L. n. 844; the inflorescence is compact, axillary and sessile, and in that respect, as 
well as in the indurated base of the style, agrees with the present section; but the 
fruit is obovoid, slightly TI and splits into two hard bony nuts, in which we have 
not observed any trace of a loculicidal opening at the apex; the stipules are as in 
our first section. 
1260. (14) H. auricularia (Linn.:) stems or branches simple, 4-angled, 
hirsute towards the extremities and under the joints, otherwise usually gla- 
brous: leaves nearly sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; under side 
strongly marked with the prominent more or less pubescent nerves: stipules 
with several bristles: flowers axillary, nearly sessile, erówded and somewhat 
verticillate, scarcely exceeding the stipules: capsule spherical, glabrous, 
crowned with the spreading lanceolate calyx-segments.— DC. prod. 4. p. 420 ; 
Spr. syst. 1. p. 412; Wight! cat. n. 1300.—H. hirsuta, Lam. enc. meth. 3. 
p. 79.—H. lineata, Wall! L. n. 6198 (not Rowb.).—Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 32 
(good); Burm. Zeyl. t. 108. f. 1 (bad). Travancore. Malabar. 
H. auricularia of Roxburgh appears by his description and Dr Wallich’s 
observations to be the same as H. hispida, Roxb. (Wall. L. n. 845), and pro- 
bably also of Retz. 
Sect. 4. Calyx 4-partite ; segments in fruit erect, converging, rigid, with the 
sinus very acute. Corolla short-tubular, scarcely longer than the calyx- 
segments. Capsule ovate, dry, dehiscing at the apex within the calyx 
transversely to the dissepiment. Seeds several, sometimes few.—Her- 
baceous or suffrutescent plants with the habit of Spermacoce. Stipules |. 
. with several rather rigid bristles. Leaves usually scabrous particularly - 
. Rear the margins. Flowers nearly sessile, usually in the axils of the 
. leaves, rarely in dichotomous leafy corymbs.—Sceleromitrion. 
This sectio: i i b 
Dee aion b Be aaia hri a 
species, however, does not belong to it. To it may be referred H. hispida, Wall.! — 
L. n. 845, H. angustifolia, Cham. and Schlect. (from which H. pinifolia, Wall. ! L. 
n. 850. does not appear to differ), H. 3 ! E vimata, 
Br. in Wall. ! L. n. 852, and Ped. — ni "PEE 
1261. (15) H. (S.) nitida (W. &. A.:) diffuse: branches somewhat simple; 
elongated, 4-angled, glabrous, slightly scabrous on the angles: leaves oblong- — — 
lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, nearly sessile ; upper side shining, SCà- — 
brous: stipules with numerous longish rigid bristles : flowers sessile, usually — 
coL es mee ipe so long as the stipular bristles: capsule eme : 
crowned wi e rigid converging sh i ili ents 0 
calyx.— Wight ! cat. n. 1301. ET diaper of : 
H. approximata, Brown, principally differs by the much narrower leaves, 
and more numerous flowers in their axils, 
_1262. (16) H. (S.) eerulea (W. & A.:) annual, branched from the root, 
diffuse: leaves setaceous, bristle-pointed : stipules with several bristles : 
flowers nearly sessile, arranged in axillary or terminal peduncled sparingly 
dichotomous leafy corymbs ; lower ones solitary in the forkings of the co- — 
rymbs, upper ones approximated and somewhat capitate : capsule glabrous, 
nearly globose, crowned with the lanceolate rigid erect calyx-segments-— 
Wight! cat. n. 1302.——Munargoody, (a village in Tanjore, between 30 and 
"EE from Negapatam), in the moist soil of the edge of a tank among 
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A very remarkable species, with somewhat the habit of H. umbellata ;.— 
