BicELow14. RUBIACES. 437 
SUBTRIBE I. EUSPERMACOCER. DC. 
Flowers distinct: fruit dry, splitting into 2 (sometimes 3-4) portions, rarely fallin, 
off with the parts cohering together. E : tn : A * 
XXIX. BIGELOWIA. Spr.—Borreria, Meyer (not Achar); DC. 
Calyx-tube ovate ; limb persistent, divided into 2—4 teeth. Corolla hypo- 
erateriform or infundibuliform, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, exserted or included. 
Stigma bifid or undivided. Capsule crowned with the limb of the calyx, 2- 
celled, when ripe splitting septicidally from the apex downwards, without 
any free dissepiment ; the cocci 1-seeded, each dehiscing equally by a longi- 
tudinal chink along the inner surface. Seeds ovate-oblong, marked on the 
inner side with a longitudinal furrow.—Herbaceous or suffrutescent plants. 
Leaves opposite or apparently verticillate from the presence of some axillary 
fascicled young ones. Stipules connate with both “petioles, more or less 
sheathing, fringed on both sides with several bristles. Flowers axillary or 
terminal, usually verticillate-capitate, small, white or blue. 
We can scarcely insert here Borreria ocymoides of De Candolle, received from Mr 
Lambert, as he does not mention from what part of India it was obtained : if 
Lambert obtained it from Dr Wallich, as is probable, it is likely to be one of the true 
species of Spermacoce in his List : Sperm. s, Burm. fl. Ind. t. 13. f. 1, a Java 
plant with glabrous stems and tomentose leaves, is surely very distinct. 
1344. (1) B. /asiocarpa (W. & A.:) stem herbaceous, erect, acutely 4- 
angled, the angles scabrous from small recurved prickles : leaves linear-lan- 
ceolate, scabrous : bristles of the stipules longer than the sheath, glabrous and 
smooth, filiform and rigid: verticils of flowers globose, axillary, remote: 
fruit obovate-globose, glabrous and somewhat membranaceous at the base, 
very hispid towards the apex, crowned with the four erect calycine lobes.— 
Wight! cat. n. 1359.—Spermacoce lasiocarpa, Brown in Wall.! L. n. 832.— 
S. stricta, Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 310 (not Linn.) ; (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 376; DC. 
prod. 4. p. 554.—S. verticillata, Rowb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 537. 
We scarcely know how this differs from Sp. stricta of Linnæus, but, al- 
though Mr Brown only says that it is scarcely the Linnæan plant, we presume 
that he would not have encumbered the science with an additional name but 
for the best reasons. 
1345. (2) B. Roxburghiana (W. & A. :) stems herbaceous, 4-angled, as- 
cending, glabrous and smooth : leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminated at both 
ends, slightly scabrous : bristles of the stipules 2-3 times longer than the 
sheath, glabrous and smooth, filiform and rigid: verticils of flowers axillary, 
globose, remote: fruit somewhat hemispherical, compressed, hispid, crowned 
with the 4 erect subulate calycine lobes.— Wight ! cat. n. 1360.—Spermacoce 
Roxburghiana, Wall.! L. n. 6186.—Dindygul, Travancore, and other south- 
em provinces. __ Rec PR 
The root appears sometimes to be annual, sometimes woody or even suf- 
fruticose. As a species it only differs from the last by the smooth stems. 
1346. (8) B. Kieinii (W. & A. :) stems 4-angled, glabrous: leaves (small) 
euneate-ovate, acute, sessile, glabrous and smooth : bristles of the stipules 
2-3 times longer than the sheath, glabrous and ,smooth, filiform and rigid : 
verticils of flowers axillary, globose, remote : früit; somewhat hemispherical, 
compressed, hispid, crowned with the 4 erect subulate calycine lobes.—Sper- 
macoce ocymoides, herb. Madr. (not Burm.) ; Wall.! L. n. 6185. .— e 
It is with sach reluctance that we characterise this species, convinced as 
we are that it is a mere accidental form of the preceding. B. ramosa (Sp. 
