LXI. RUBIACER, 403 
ee EE Linn. 
Calyx-limb of 4 icky rately 5) Berg teeth or er , Corolla-tube 
short or slender, of > Va KE 5) lobes, valvate in the bud. " Anthers usu- 
ally exserted from tube. Ovary 2-(rarely 3- or 4-)celled, with several 
ovules in each cell, eas to placentas arising from near the base. Style 
entire or with 2 (rarely 3 or 4) stigmatic lobes. Capsule globular or ovoid 
imes more than half-su superior, the carpels separating septicidally, and 
indehiscent or loculicidally 2-valved, or the whole capsule loculicidally 
*-valved, the valves rema aining entire or splitting septicidally.— Herbs, under- 
; or rarely climbers. Stipules interpetiolar, united with the petioles in 
a short sheath or almost free, either truncate or ovate, entire or fringed wit 
bristle-like subulate lobes e 
A large genus, widely spread over ës and subtropical Asia and Africa, with a few 
American s pecies. Of the nine Aust n species, one or perhaps two are common in India 
and the Archipelago, the Sieg E rive ndem 
The two Linnean gene 7$ and Oldentandia were united by Wight and are 
Torrey kr Gray Pligaa adding athird Linnean genus Houstonia, and many maller 
is eh : 
: quit 
: and that there are intermediate forms bises een SS and Oldenlandia, and 
fing through all the sections it mu st be admitted that the adoption of the three genera 
ua t Joe 
genera a s. As,m th we: 
: re represented by species having all the true Oldenlandia habit, it it appears 
better to return to the union as proposed by Wight and Arnott and by Torrey and coin 
3 Capsule hard, indehiscent or separable into 2 indehiscent cocci. í 
E Coarse plant. Owers numerous, in sessile axillary m ers. 1. H. auricularia. 
m the calyx-tube, and opening loculi- 
r both septicidally and loculicid -— one narrow- 
P edicel T, i 
Slender. a I or 2 o ethe : : 
» erect, rigid, and virgate, us lla lobes Tonge than the 
y, be. Capsule Joculicidal only . 2. H. cerulescens. 
Lha nder, ere erect. Panic] e loose, almost leafless. Corolla- 
SCH Peri than the Ke Capsule loculicidal and septi- 
8. H. mitrasaemoides. 
Sender ana’ diffuse, " Pedicels ‘axillary. = shorter Hm 
i the tube, Capsule loculicidal and septicidal 4. H. galioides. 
"Frak least ebe gie openin g in n4 dtr 
ided o the base, and often persistent. 
Seeds 
x Zeie, or oss not concave. Very small much- 
nnials. 
* A te-acute 
E hing an. ucronate-acute. ibis é SEH mucronate-acu' Bi yee ete! 
"ec oblong, obtuse, Į tio late. Flowers about 1 line long. en 
Lr lobes minute, distant. Anuual, under 1 in. . 6. H. elatinoides. 
7d near, obtuse. Flowers about À line long. lyx- : 
Corolla. obtuse, shorter than t co P alof 2-3in. 7. H. tilleacea. 
lobes sho an the tube. neave, 
by t Lët tib on the inner 
erte nearly 2 lines SE SE E opm tees sre 
aa By attach 
with li 
be i eels slender. wë 
very short. Corolla- -tube l.line long . $ 2. 9 ui e 
