414 RUBIACE A. Hroni 
mus. tab, 1343) may belong: the inflorescence is more that of O. biflora, 
while in the size of the fruit it resembles O. racemosa: we are most inclined 
to refer it to the latter. 
1266. (20) H. (O.) racemosa (Lam. :) annual or biennial, diffuse, gla- 
brous: leaves elliptic oblong, or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, attenuated at 
the base: flowers pedicelled, disposed in long-peduncled naked alternate- 
axillary and terminal racemes ; the partial peduncles 1-3 flowered: limb of 
the calyx 4-partite ; segments triangular-ovate, acute, in fruit distant with | 
the sinus wide: capsule shortly turbinate, slightly marked with 4 acute de- 
current angles—Lam. enc. meth. 3. p. 76. ill. t. f. 2; Spr. syst. 1. p. 413; 
Wall.! L. n. 875 ; Wight! cat. n. 1306.—Oldenlandia alata, Rob. fl. Ind. 1. 
p. 421; (ed Wall.) 1. p. 442 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 547 ; DC.2 prod. 4. p. 421. 
—O. paniculata, Linn.? ; DC. ? l. e——Cirears. Tanjore, frequent in moist 
rich soil. 
This varies greatly in size and general appearance: it is, as far as our ob- 
servations go, always diffuse and procumbent, but when supported by bushes, 
&c. it grows to a great length, sometimes 3-4 feet. Gerontegea racemosa, 
Cham. ! in Linnea, 4. p. 154, as to the specimens from Radack, is quite dis- 
tinct from our plant; it seems more allied to Roxburgh’s Old. ramosa (in E. 
I. C. mus. tab. 1946). We have not seen the Linnean specimen of Old. pa- 
niculata, and therefore retain the name given by Lamarck, the more as We 
feel certain that Mr Brown would have restored the Linnæan one in Wallich's 
List had it really belonged to this species. Old. paniculata, Burm. Ind. t. 15. 
f. 1, is perhaps different from either, but the figure is very bad. 
§ 3. Corolla tubular or rotate, scarcely longer than the calya-segments : stamens in- 
serted on the mouth of the tube: anthers oval : style slender: stigma bifid, with 
the segments recurved: capsule crustaceous, usually globose, rarely turbinate-ob- 
long. Annual herbaceous plants, with usually narrow or rarely broad leaves. 
1267. (21) H. (0.) trinervia (Roem. & Sch. :) herbaceous, branched, pro- 
cumbent, rooting near the base: stems slender, from glabrous to slightly 
iry : leaves petioled, roundish ovate or oval, glabrous, sprinkled with a few 
hairs on the margin, somewhat 3-nerved : stipules slightly hairy, bipartite, 
segments acuminated: flowers shortly pedicelled, usually in pairs (1-4) in 
the axils of the leaves : corolla rotate, 4-partite, glabrous within ; tube scarce- 
ly any: capsule hirsutely villous, crowned with the remote calycine teeth.— 
; and Schult. 3. p. 197 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 413; Wight! cat. n. 1307.—H- 
rotundifolia, Spr. pug. 2. p. 33; ‘DC. prod. 4. p. 420.—H. serpyllifolia, Poir- 
enc. meth. suppl. 3. p- 14; DC. l.c. p. 421.—H. orbiculata. Wall.! L. n. 6191. ' 
Oldenlandia trinervia, Retz, obs, 4. p. 23.—O. repens, Burm. Ind. p. 88. t. 15. 
J. 2 (bad).—Damp soil under the shade of hedges, &c. 
We have compared this with speeimens from the Mauritius, and do not 
perceive any difference. Perhaps Old. depressa, Willd., belongs to this spe- 
cies, but the description of the leaves does not correspond so well as to those 
of Peplidium cochlearifolium, Sm. (Old. maritima, Linn.) :: Willdenow never 
saw the flower, and the figure in Rheede to which he refers is Port 
quadrifida. | 
1268. (22) H. (O.) pumila (Linn. :) annual, diffuse, glabrous or slightly 
scabrous: leaves from elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, attenuated at the 
base into a short petiole: peduncles solitary, axillary, alternate, either a 
the length of the leaves and 1-flowered, or about half the length of the leaves 
and with two pedicellate flowers, the peduncles and pedicels together some- 
what longer than the leaves: corolla shortly tubular, hairy in the mouth: ca- 
lyx-segments triangular-acuminated, in fruit slightly spreading and se; 
by a rather acute angle: capsule turbinate-oblong, compressed.—Linn. suppl. 
p. 119; Spr. syst. 1. p. 412; Wall.! L.n. 6200: Wight ! cat. n. 1308. 
—Ol- a . 
