62 RUBIACE.E 



HEDYOTIS. 



Hcdyotis stylosa Brr, Vol. I p. 187. Buds lilac. 

 Flowers very pale lilac 



Hcdyotis swertioides. Hk. f. ; Vol. I p. 188, t. 356. 



Hcdyotis vcrticillaris, W, & A.) Vol. I p. 188. 

 Flowers blue or violet. 



Nilgiris : in moist ground, upper Pykara valley, Fir. May. 



OLDENLANDIA. 



Small herbs with slender bifurcating branches, small 

 narrow leaves, and small white flowers in axillary or 

 terminal cymes. Calyx usually four lobed, the teeth well 

 separated in fruit. Corolla valvate in bud. Ovary two 

 celled. Capsule small protruding, and opening loculi- 

 cidally above the calyx. Seeds small, angled. 



Species perhaps 100 especially in tropical and subtropical 

 Asia. 



Flowers solitary, branches very slender . . . O. heynei. 

 Flowers umbelled O. umbellata. 



Oldcnlandia hcynci, Br. ; RB.L iii 65, XXI 3. All 

 parts very slender. Peduncles axillary J^ in one flowered. 

 Corolla tube short, capsule l/lO in., its crown much 

 protruded. Seeds smooth, t. 357. 



On the plateaus common. Pulneys flowering before June. 

 Fyson Nos. 460, 652, 4160. 



Oldcnlandia umbellata Linn. ; F-B.I. iii 66, XXX 5. 

 Leaves fascicled, flat or almost needle-like. Flowers in 

 small umbels, on axillary peduncles. Corolla tube short. 

 Fruit I/12 in., crown of ovary low. Pres. Coll. Bot. Bull. 

 No. 6. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor, a weed from the plains. Fyson 723, 

 5631- 



Gen. Dist. South India, Bunna, Ceylon. 



