Hzpvoris. RUBIACE. 417 
Chamisso and Schlechtendal refer Old. linearifolia of Klein (or herb. Madr. 
as we have designated his specimens) to Old. biflora, and state that it repre- 
sents in Willdenow’s herbarium his H. diffusa; on which account it is pro- 
| bable that H. diffusa, Willd., ought to be adduced here, and not under H. 
~ Burmanniana. Old. capillaris, DC., was described from specimens transmit- 
ted him by Dr Hooker ; and as these were sent to Dr H. by Dr Wight, through 
Dr Shuter of Madras, we feel no uncertainty about that synonym. The num- 
ber of flowers on each peduncle varies considerably in the same specimen, and 
occasionally the pedicel is axillary and solitary without the intervention of a 
peduncle: on which account we would be almost disposed to refer here 
Old. tenuifolia, Burm. Ind. t. 14. f. 1, but as that is from Java it may probably 
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§ 5. Corolla infundibuliform, internally glabrous, 2-3 times longer than the calyx- 
segments ; segments of the limb about as long as the tube, oblong-linear : filaments 
exserted ; anthers oblong-linear : style as long as the corolla ; stigma bipartite, the 
segments long-linear : capsule coriaceous, oval, loculicidal, crowned with the dis- 
tant teeth of the calyz. > 
1275. (29) H. (O.) maritima (Wall.:) perennial, diffuse, proeumbent, 
glabrous and somewhat glaucous: stems and branches twiggy: leaves linear- 
lanceolate, attenuated at both ends: stipules united with the short petioles 
into a membranous truncated sheath: flowers pedicillate, alternate on the 
branches of longish terminal or subterminal simple or dichotomously branch- 
ed racemes : calyx-limb 4-partite ; segments distant with the sinus rounded : 
. Corolla infundibuliform: stamens exserted: capsule coriaceous oval.— Wall. ! 
= L.n. 6192; Wight! cat, n. 1314.—H. graminifolia, Linn.? suppl. 1. p. 119 ; 
Spr. ? syst. 1. p. 418 ; herb. Madr. !—Oldenlandia stricta, Linn. mant. p. 200. 
O. graminifolia, DC. ? prod. 4. p. 425.——- Sea coast, in loose sandy soil, in 
the southern districts. 
If Klein and Rottler be correct, this is H. graminifolia of Linnsus, but 
neither the name nor description given in the Suppl. Plant. accords so well 
with the present species as with H. dichotoma. Until, then, we have an op- 
portunity of consulting the original specimens, we prefer following Dr Wal- 
ch in adopting a more appropriate name, expressive of the situation in 
which only, we believe, it 3s to be found. 
§ 6. Corolla infundibuliform ; tube slender, 5-6 times longer than the calyz-segments, 
inflated immediately below the limb ; segments of the limb much shorter than the 
tube: anthers linear oblong, included within the swollen part of the tube: style 
: slender : stigma bifid, segments spreading: capsule crustaceous, nearly globose, 
truncated, slightly compressed, crowned with the distant teeth of the calyz. Her- 
: baceous erect twiggy branched plants with narrow leaves, and terminal corymbose 
or loosely spiked cymes—Kohautia, Cham. and Schl. 
1276. (30) H, (O.) aspera (Heyne:) annual, erect, simple, or with a few 
j ight Uh e Laer all over rough with minute points: leaves li- 
|. néar-acuminated ; stipules membranous, with 1-3 longish subulate points : 
cymes terminal, long-peduncled, usually of one short central branch and two 
longish lateral ones: flowers usually in pairs, shortly pedicelled, with or 
without a short partial peduncle, racemosely and rather distantly arranged 
E along the branches of the cyme : calyx-teeth approximated during flowering, 
.. n fruit distant with the sinus wide: corolla long-infundibuliform : anthers 
included : capsule nearly globose, somewhat didymous, truncated.— Heyne in 
— Both, nov. sp. p. 94; Spr. syst. 1. p. 415 ; Wight! cat. n. 1315.—H. elongata, 
Br. in Wall. ! L. n. 865.—H. paniculata, herb. Rottl.! (not Lam.)—Olden- 
landia aspera, DC. prod. 4. p. 428.——Arcot. Dindygul "es 
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