Hepyoris. RUBIACEE. 415 
denlandia pumila, DC. prod. 4. p. 425.—0O. crystallina, Roxb. fl. Ind. p. 422 ; 
(ed Wail.) 1. p. 443 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1117 ; DC. l. c. p. 426.— —Chingle- 
put, near Madras. Guzzlehette Pass. Trevalore, near Negapatam. 
We have the same species from Java, so that it is probably widely distri- 
buted throughout India. 
1269. (23) H. (O.) intermedia (W. & A.:) annual or biennial, diffuse, gla- 
brous or slightly scabrous: leaves linear-lanceolate, tapering at both ends: 
peduncles solitary, axillary, alternate, 1-2-flowered, with the pedicels short- 
er than the leaves: corolla shortly tubular: calyx-segments in fruit some- 
what subulate, distant with the sinus wide: capsule glabrous, shortly turbi- 
nate-oblong, or roundish-turbinate.— Wight! cat. n. 1309.—H. Burmanniana, 
Wall. L. n. 868. h. 
We have presumed to separate this species from the next, principally on 
account of its capsule not being gibbous at the base as in the following. In 
Dr Wight's specimens the capsule is almost hemispherical; but in others 
transmitted by the late Dr Shuter of Madras to Dr Hooker, and preserved in 
his herbarium, it is almost as long as in H. pumila. From H. pumila it is 
readily distinguished by its leaves as well as by remoteness of the calyx-seg— 
ment; and from H. Burmanniana by the shorter branches, and the capsule 
widening upwards from the base to the crown: it is thus precisely interme- 
diate. It appears also to be allied closely to H. alsinefolia, Br., in Wall. ! 
L. n. 873, but in that species the peduncles bear a short few-flowered raceme 
instead of merely two flowers. 
1270. (24) H. (0.) Burmanniana (Br.:) annual, diffuse, glabrous or sea- 
brous: branches elongated: leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, tapering at 
both ends: peduncles solitary, axillary, alternate, shorter than the leaves, 1— 
3-flowered : corolla shortly tubular: calyx-segments in fruit somewhat subu- 
late, distant with the sinus wide: capsule glabrous, roundish-ovate (gibbous 
at the base, and narrower towards the crown).—Br. in Wall. ! L.n.9868; 
Wight! cat. n. 1310.—H. biflora, Lam. illn. 1427 ; Roth, nov. sp. p. 92.— 
H. diffusa, Willd. sp. 1. p. 566 (according to Cham.).—Oldenlandia biflora, 
Lam. enc. meth. 4. p. 533 (not Linn.) ; DC. prod. 4. p. 426 ; Roxb. ft. Ind. 1. 
p. 422 ; (ed Wall.) 1. p. 445; in E. T. C. mus. tab. 1342.—Gerontegea biflora, 
Cham. and Schl. in Linnea, 4. p. 155.—Burm. Zeyl. 22. t. 11 (fig. and deser. 
of flower bad) ; Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 35. sn: 
The flowers in the same specimen are sometimes solitary, sometimes m 
pairs, and sometimes in threes on the peduncles. The length likewise of the 
peduncle is very variable ; in some specimens it is scarcely longer than the 
petiole, in which case it is always, we believe, 1-flowered, as is the case with 
Wall. L. n. 868. a!, which we presume to have been examined and named 
by Brown ; perhaps ‘from this cireumstance, as De Candolle has $ 
Old. diffusa, Roxb. (O. paucifiora, Roxb. in. E. I. C. mus. tab. 1341), ought to 
be united with the present species; the flowers, however, are represented 
much larger than any we have seen. In Roxburgh's drawing of his O. biflora, 
the peduncles are all 2-flowered ; so that there may have been some mis- 
take in Dr Wallich’s referring Roxburgh's herbarium specimen of that plant 
to O. Heynei; Brown refers it to H. Burmanniana, From the imperfect 
specimen we have seen (in Dr Hooker's herbarium) we can scarcely point 
out any character between Old. tenuifolia, Forst., and the state of our plant 
which has 1-flowered peduncles. 
1271. (25) H. O. brachiata (Wight :) annual, more or less scabrous, branch- 
ed at the base: branches erect or ascending, short, somewhat simple : leaves 
narrow linear or subulate, rigid, mucronate, the margins recurved : flowers 
longish pedicelled, arranged singly or in pairs in terminal (or from the upper 
axils) lax naked racemes: corolla tubular: capsule crowned with the. s- 
tant teeth of the calyx, shortly hemispherical or somewhat — Wight ! 
in Wall.! L. n. 6201 (partly) ; cat. n. 1311.— Pluk. t. ^ f. 2 ? (bad). 
