Hasvons ` RUBIACER. E 
it is not, that we know of, noticed in Dr Wallich's List ; the flowers are blue. 
It bears the native name of Vashap-pilloo or Poison-grass. 
Sect. 5. Calyx 4-partite or 4-toothed, segments in fruit erect, usually distant 
with the sinus obtuse, sometimes forming a slightly acute angle with 
each other but not converging. Corolla short-tubular, infundibuliform, 
or somewhat rotate. Capsule roundish-ovate, turbinate, or oval, usual- 
ly dry and crustaceous. sometimes coriaceous, compressed at the apex, 
and there dehiscing readily transversely to the dissepiment. Seeds nu- 
merous, minute.— Usually herbaceous, very rarely suffruticose plants.— 
Oldenlandia, Linn. 
^ $ l. Corolla rotate: anthers linear-oblong: stigma thick, deeply 2-cleft, the lobes re- 
curved: capsule globose, crustaceous, not angled. Suffruticose : leaves linear, 
somewhat verticillate : flowers while, in a peduncled short-roundish slightly com- 
pound raceme. 
1263. (17) H. (O) umbellata (Lam. :) suffruticose, erect or diffuse, slightly 
scabrous: leaves opposite or verticillate, linear, paler on the under side, 
margin recurved: stipules ciliated with bristles: peduncles alternate, axilla- 
ry, bearing a short raceme ; partial peduncles 1-3-flowered: capsule globose 
with a wide dehiscence.— Lam. ill. n. 1429; Spr. syst. 1. p. 413; Wall.! L. 
n. 871; Wight! cat. n. 1303.—H. hispida, Roth, nov. sp. p. 95.—H. Indica, 
Roem. and Sch. syst. 3. p. 195.—Oldenlandia umbellata, Linn.; DC. prod. 4. 
p. 426; Roxb. Cor. 1. t£. 85 fl. Ind. 1. p. 421; (ed Wall.) 1. p. 442.— Pluk. t. 
119. f. 4. 
The stamens and style vary much in length and inversely to each other. 
8 2. Corolla rotate ; tube short and gibbous, the mouth closed with hair : stamens in- 
serted on and inclosed within the tube, anthers globose: style stout, somewhat 
spindle-shaped : stigma no thicker than the style : ovary acutely A-angled : capsule 
shortly turbinate, with two acute angles or wings: seeds globose, numerous, scro- 
biculate. Diffuse or erect, annual or biennial branched herbaceous glabrous 
plants: branches 4-angled: leaves broad, somewhat fleshy: flowers white. 
1264, (18) H. (O.) alata (Koen.:) annual, glabrous: leaves narrow-ob- 
long, slightly acute, tapering at the base: flowers short-pedicelled, 1-3 in 
the alternate axils, and upon a terminal naked common peduncle: limb of 
the calyx in fruit widely cup-shaped, 4-lobed ; lobes roundish-ovate, acute, 
in fruit with the sinus rather acute-angled: capsule shortly turbinate, with | 
two broadish membranous wings, and two narrower ones, decurrent from the 
points of the calyx-lobes to the middle of the pedicel.—Aoen. in Wall.! L. — 
n. 6196 (not Rozb.); Wight! cat. n. 1304.—Gonotheca Blumei, DC.? prod. - 
4. p. 429. Circars. 
1265. (19) H. (O.) biflora (Br.:) annual or biennial, glabrous: leaves el- 
inai ae he pÊ the base: flowers pedicelled, 2-3 together on 
longish alternate axillary or terminal peduncles: limb of the calyx deeply 4- 
cleft; segments triangular-acuminated, in fruit with the sinus rounded: capsule 
shortly turbinate, with two prominent sharp keels and two less prominent 
from the apex of the teeth to its base—Brown in Wall.! L. n. 879; Wight! 
cat. n. 1305.—Oldenlandia biflora, Linn. (according to Brown.) 
This is exactly intermediate between H. alata and the following: from the 
former it differs by the want of the membranous wings on the capsule, and 
by the limb of the calyx more deeply divided: from the latter, by the larger 
size of the capsule and much less branched inflorescence. We have some 
doubts to which Old. paniculata, Roxb. fl. Ind. (O. radicans, Roxb. in E. I. C. 
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