﻿42 RUBIACEiE. Hedyotis. 



than the slightly compressed roundish-ovoid fruit.— J)C./ prodr.i.p 420; 



§ 4. Corolla rotate, much shorter than the teeth of the calyx, which are erect in 

 fruit, with the sinuses acute : stamens scarcely longer than the lohcs of the 

 corolla: anthers sub globose : style nearly none: stigmas oblong, obtuse: 

 capsule globose-compressed, wholly coherent icith the tube of the calyx, 

 emarginale, loculicidally dehiscent across the summit: seeds very numerous 



of Elatine: stipules bisuhulate on each side: flowers solitary or mostly 

 glomerate in the axils of the leaves.— Elati^^eli^a. 



1. H. Halei: glabrous; stem diffuse, dichotomous ; leaves oval-obloog, 



