404 LXI. RUBIACEJ. [ Hedyotis. 
re also M of a distinct Hedyotis from Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller, but too 
= for description 
1. H. auricularia, Lin ; DC. Prod. iv. 420. A decumbent straggling 
herb of 1 to » 90. the carie ‘hairy or pubescent all round or on the 
site sides only or ‘almost glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate-lanceolate 
to oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 3 in. long, glabrous or pubescent, with very oblique 
raised veins diverging from WR midrib and very prominent underneath. 
Stipules short, with long bristle-like lobes or teeth. Flowers but little more 
than 1 line long, in dense axillary sessile clusters. Calyx-lobes subulate an 
recurved, abo ut a s long as the tube, the corolla scarcely exceeding them. 
Capsules small, deed by the calyx-lobes, and quite e indehiscent or rarely 
separating into 2 hard ee cocci, each containing 4 to 6a ngular seeds. 
—wW. and Arn. Prod. 412; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 150; H. geniculata, Roxb. ; 
DC. Prod. iv. ;. 430; Metabolos saika Blume; DC. Prod. iv. 435. 
Queensland. Cape York, E —Widely spread over E. "ui: the Archipe- 
lago, and the islands of the S . Pacifi 
2. H. cerulescens, P Muell. Fragm. iv. 38. Annual (or with à 
perennial Hoek ?), with slender but rigid virgate stems of about | ft., Ces 
glabrous. Leaves narrow-linear, acute, attaining sometimes 1 in. or even 
more.  Pedicels in the upper axils, solitary or in pairs, or 30r4onà Met 
i in. le : : 
——— — UEMEEGN n À 
lines lo h narrower, laterally compressed nd furrowed at the 
dissepiment, truncate at the top, the capsule very slightly prominent, opening 
loculicidally in 2 valves, not aed EE ida nd angular 
tenait. Broad Sound, R. Bro asaltic SEN Mackenzie and ae 
rivers, an d Peak Downs, F. Muller —This D ;the only Au stralian one strictly -— 
ing to the section Oldenlandia, is very closely allied to the E. Indian H. marifints 
further specimens may possibly show it to be a dace only. 
3. H. mitrasacmoides, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 37. A gg i 
Bi glabrous Ay of 1 ft. or more. Leaves few, e 
Stipules small, scarious, with 1 or 2 short rient like lobes on n each a 
owers very small, in a ze? irregular 2-3-chotomous cyme OF panicle, 
ogether, long 
floral leaves reduced to minute bracts.  Pedicels Ter? or 2 tog 
and filiform. Calyx very small, with minute distant teeth. Corolla 
exceeding 1 line, the tube somewhat dilated upwards, the lobes rather SCH 
than the tube. Fruit ovoid or as broad as long, somewhat comp » 
deeply furrowed at the dissepiment, 14 lines long. Capsu ule as long ?* 
calyx-teeth, opening E and septicidally | in 4 valves. 
N. Australia. pot Creek and Arnhem’s Land, F. Mueller. GR 
a catia F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 38. A slender diffuse m with 
niet glabrous annual, Leaves narrow-linear. Stipules very ws 
1 or 2 small bristle-like lobes on each side. - Pedicels xr. E : 
