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HEDYOTIS. F.B.I. 75 XX. 



(Our species only.) 



Shrubs or small woody plants with long bristles on 

 the stipular cup which joins two opposite leaf-stalks ; 

 white or pale lilac flowers in terminal panicles ; their 

 parts in fours ; stamens set in the corolla tube or at 

 the throat, not far exserted ; fruit dry, globose, splitting 

 open in two halves, containing many seeds. 



Species about 80 chiefly in tropical Asia. 



Hedyotis stylosa Brow7t, in Wall Cat. 853 ! ; F.B.I, iii 

 51, XX 8. A shrub with rather loosely growing flexuous 

 branches, very variable in habit. Leaf-stalk % inch ; 

 blade ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, I to 5 inches long 

 according to position and strength of shoot, glabrous or 

 pubescent on the nerves underneath : stipular cup with 

 three or four ^-inch bristles. Capsule entirely within 

 the calyx-tube, '% by 1/12 inch, ellipsoid, splitting in 

 two halves which open along their inside faces : calyx- 

 teeth in fruit 1/20 inch. t. 137. Wight Ic. t. 1027. 



By sholas and in cool places. Pulneys : on the downs and 

 below to Shembaganur, common. Nilgiris : on the downs Oota- 

 camund to Pykara. Fyso?i 321, 661, 694, 1206, 1207, 1838. 

 Bourne 207, 568, 804,"^ 1104, iio4.'^ 



Geii* Dist. South Indian hills. 



The place of the capsule is often taken by a fleshy gall the 

 size of a small pea. 



Hedyotis articularis Brown, in Wall.Cat. 854 ! : F.B.I, iii 

 51, XX 9. A shrub characterised by its very close-set erect 

 narrow sessile leaves and, where the leaves have fallen, 

 the rings of dried bristly stipular sheaths. 



Leaves I by 54 inch, lanceolate or elliptic lanceolate, 

 rigid, glabrous or nearly so, with reflexed margin, and 

 very broad nerves underneath. Cymes terminal, compact. 

 Capsule l^ inch, egg-shaped: calyx-tube unaltered or 



