44Sfc TBTiiANDRr*. MOXOGTNiA Oldeiilatidia. 



Obs. This species is so much like my L. parvi flora as not to be 

 distinguished, except by atiending to the germ, or capsule. In that 

 plant it is shorter, thicker, always straight, and with numerou? 

 crowded seeds in each cell, attached to a projecting receptacle, as 

 >n L. alternifolia, Gart. Carp. i. 158 ^ 31. Ip this there is only 

 one vertical row la each cell attached to the axis. 



OLDENLA^^DIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 205. 



Calyx four-parted, permanent. Corol one-petal!ed, four-parted. 

 Capsule inferior, two-celled, many-seeded. Receptacle free, fastened 

 to the partition by the base only. 



Obs. Would It not be better to omit this Gaertnerian part of the 

 generic character, and unite our Indian species of Hedj/otis to Ol- 

 denlandia.'' For except the attachment of their respective recepta* 

 cles 1 can find no other mark by which the two genera are to be dis- 

 tinguished, and surely this is too minute and inconspicuous for the 

 travelling Botanist to be able at all times to discover. 



l.O. umbeUata,Linn Sp.Pl. ed.M'illd.i.6l6. Roxh. Corom. T/. i, 

 N.3* 



jErect. Leaves opposed, tcrp, and quatem, linear, scabrous. JJmbelt 

 terminal, inside of the porol hairy. 



Teling. Cher i-Vel loo. 



Tarn. Saya-wer, or Imburel. 



Much cultivated on the light sandy lands near the shores of Co- 

 Tomandel ; where the root is employed to dye the best, and most du- 

 j^able red on cotton cloth. 



2. O. alala, Kofiig's Mss. 



Erect, four-sided. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, elliptic, smooth, 

 Fanicles terminal ; porol campanulate 4 mouth shut with hairs. Cap' 

 sales turbinate. 



Jiengf Gundha-baduh*. 



Hcdyotis racemosa^ Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. i. 565. 

 •Hedyotii,Laai.-N.W= 



