| Hedyotis.] LXI. RUBIACEX. 405 
. Fruit ovoid-globular, 1 line long or rather more, contracted at the 
top, furrowed at the dissepiment. Capsule scarcely protruding, the carpels 
separating "ewer at the top, and opening each in 2 valves. Seeds 
small, 
N.A "eg Along rivulets near M‘Adam Range, F. Mueller ; S. Goulburn Island, 
^ mesi 
Cp — Shoal Bay, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Cape Race and Broad 
nd, Bowm 
The plant is ären re, the ander Sam of the common H. B nniana 
W. and Arn. (O/denlandia herbac , DC.), except by the longer connivent Beer? 
and the capsule, ig are rather ee of Hedyotis than of Oldenlandia. 
5. H. scleranthoides S, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 89. A divarieately- 
branched or diffuse glabrous annual of 2 or 3 in. Leaves linear, mucronate- 
acute, 3 to 4 lines long. Stipules short, usually with 2 bristle- like lobes on 
each side. Flowers very small, on very short pedicels, solitary or 2 together 
n each axil. Calyx-tube exceedingly ‘short, broadly as lobes mucro- 
nate-acute, about 4 line long. Corolla about as long a the calyx-lobes, 
divided nearly to Ze base. Fruit globular, scarcely 4 line gës meter. A 
sule half-superior, divided to the base loculicidally and septicidally into 4 
valves. Seeds n nearly globular. 
N. Australia. Depôt Creek, F. Mueller. 
Ze H. elatinoides, Benth. A diffuse ae annual, not 1 in. long 
ur specimen. Leaves oblo ong, not 2 lines long, narrowe ed into a petiole. 
ede Very short, entire or scarcely toothed, Pedicels Se as long as 
the leaves or rather lon nger. Flowers scarcely 3 line long. Calyx- Bp turbi- 
fe? Sie small distant teeth. Corolla divided nearly to the base, and per- 
n H. tilleacea. Capsule 3 line broad, Lët opening 
bei and septicidally in 4 valves. Seeds apparently peltate. 
. W. Australia, Drummond, 4th Coll, n. 108. 
1. H. tilleac ea, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 39. Perennial, much-branched, ` 
Sect or diffuse ê, AU" exceeding 3 or 4 in., glabrous or minutely pubescent. 
or linear-oblong, mostly Kai rarely above 4 in. long. 
E small, usually with 2 teeth on each side.  Pedicels axillary, ‘hot ex- 
e the | leaves. Calyx-tube turbinate, not 3 line long; lobes linear, 
herbaceous, distant, rather longer than the tube. de broadly campanu- 
Le about 1 line long, divided nearly to the base, persistent on the ripe 
i apsule more than half-superior, compressed, about 1 line broad, 
n £ locu culicidally in 2 valves, not usually splitting. Seeds ovate, attached 
promi E eng! face, which is sometimes broad and flat, sometimes narrow and 
N. Wales. Between the Darling river ud arrier Range, Vicforian Erpedition. 
Bone Wills's Creek and keen Creek, ` Howilf's Expedition. 
5. H. trachyme nioid 40. Perennial, erect, 
z es, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 
e à humerous dichotomous Rache slender but rigid. Leaves linear-fili- 
tia, the upper ones very short. Stipular sheaths short, entire or with 1 or 
