416 |... RUBIACE. Hepyors, | 
The placent: are oval, and attached by stalks to near the bottom of the 
dissepiment. 
1272. (26) H. (O.) nudicaulis (W. & A.:) annual with a filiform root : 
leaves 4—5, all radical, roundish ovate, slightly attenuated at the base, sessile, 
sprinkled with short hairs particularly on the margin and nerves underneath : 
seapes 2-3, slender, scabrous from close short fuscous hairs, bearing each 
about the middle a lax corymbose spreading 3-4-chotomous panicle ; pedi- 
cels bristle-shaped, glabrous: corolla with a very short tube, bearded in the 
throat with white hairs: capsule somewhat globose.—Oldenlandia medicau- 
- Roth, nov. sp. p. 90 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 446.—H. scapigera, Br. ? in Wall.! 
. n. 881. 
84. Corolla infundibuliform : tube slender, about twice the length of the calyx-seg- 
ments or shorter, segments of the limb much shorter than the tube : anthers oval, 
in the throat of the tube, exserted or somewhat included: style slender : stigma 3 
bifid; segments recurved: capsule crustaceous, ewhat globose. Annual or * 
biennial herbaceous plants with usually narrow leaves and slender pedicels. 
1273. (27) H. (0.) Heynei (Br.:) annual or biennial, erect or decumbent 
with erect branches, dichotomous, glabrous: stems sometimes terete at the 
base, above and the branches acutely 4-angled: leaves linear or linear-lan- 
ceolate: stipules with several short bristles, or often truncated and naked: 
pedicels 1-flowered, axillary, solitary or in pairs, in the opposite or alternate 
axils, shorter than the leaves, 4-8-times longer than the fruit, rigid : calyx- 
segments in fruit distant with the sinus wide, from triangular-acuminated and 
small to oblong-lanceolate and elongated: corolla infundibuliform : anthers 
somewhat included : capsule roundish-ovate, gibbous at the base, crusta- 
ceous, opening with a very elevated compressed widely dehiscent ridge across 
the apex, lips of the opening erect.—Br. in Wall.! L. n.867 ; Wight! cat. n. 
1312 —H. herbacea, Willd. sp. 1. p.666 (not Linn. according to Brown); Spr. 
syst. 1. p. 412 ; Roth, nov. sp. p. 92.—Oldenlandia herbacea Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. 
p. 424; (ed Wall.) 1. p. 445; DC. prod. 4. p. 425.—O. dichotoma, Roxb. in — 
E. I. C. mus. tab. 546.—0O. asperule, DC.? I. c.—Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 29; 
Pluk. t. 130. f. 3? 
Had Mr Brown not declared the Linnsean H. herbacea to be distinct, we 
would have followed other botanists in considering the present to be that 
plant : in those specimens which have the calycine teeth enlarged; the leaves 
also are broader and with the margin slightly undulated. Plunkenet's t. 125. 
f. 5, may perhaps represent a narrow-leaved specimen of this species taken 
from the summit of a branch, where often the leaves become small and al- 
most abortive. 
1274. (28) H. (O.) dichotoma (Koen. :) annual, erect or decumbent with 
erect branches; branches slightly 4-angled, scabrous on the angles: leaves 
linear, attenuated at both ends, flaccid: stipules usually with 2-3 bristles, - 
sometimes truncated and without any: flowers on long and capillary pec 
cels, rarely axillary and solitary, sometimes 2-3 from the apex of a slender - 
elongated peduncle, usually several arranged in very lax peduncled axillary 
ents - ier 
remote with the sinus wide: capsule nearly globose or slightly globular 
ovate, with the ridge on the apex pae very prona i ede -— 
(not Cav.) herb. Madr.! ; Roth, nov. sp. p. 98; Wall.! L. n. 6204; Wight: 
eat. n, 1313.—H. brachiata, Wall. ! L. n. 6201 (as to H. graminifolia)—H. 
diffusa, Spr. l. c.—O. linearifolia, herb. Madr.!—O. linifolia, DC. Pueri 
DC. I. c. Trichinopoly. Travancore. 
