1 88 RUBIACE.^. 



occasionally lengthening to J4 inch. t. 138. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1028. 



Nilgiris : on Elk bilinear Ootacamund abundant. Pulneys : 

 on the downs in hollows by streams, etc., flowers summer. 

 Nowhereelse. 775^/2691,1837,1860,1896. ^^z/r;/^ 571, 963. 



Hcdyotis swcrtioidcs Hook. f. ; F.B.L iii 51, XX II ; 

 Ground Lilac ; a small undershrub characterised by its 

 stiff ovate leaves and dense terminal panicles of lilac- 

 coloured flowers. 



Height I to 2 feet, usually in tufts. Leaves sessile 

 ovate, I to 3 inches by half as broad, erect, glabrous, firm. 

 Cymes densely pubescent. Calyx lobes longer than the 

 tube. 



Pulneys : on the downs above Kodaikanal, very common, 

 flowers summer. Nowhere else. Fyson 1070, 3048. Bourne 

 80, 325, 964. 



Hcdyotis vcrticillaris Wight and Arnott ; F.B.L iii 56, 

 XX 29. Stem short or none, as thick as the finger. 

 Leaves numerous, close-set, 4 to 6 by I to I inch, elliptic 

 or lanceolate-oblong ; with three main and several minor 

 parallel nerves. Flowers small in dense bunches in 

 three-chotomous panicles on peduncles of 3 or 4 inches. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1029. 



Nilgiris at Pykara by the river side. Bourne 2659, 47^9. 



ANOTIS. F.B.I. 75 XXII. 



(Our species only.) 



Herbaceous plants with evil-smelling leaves and 



peltate seeds, otherwise as in Hedyotis. 



Species about 25, in the tropics of Asia and Australia. 



[ Flowers pink. Stems weak usually creeping, in the open . 



A. leschenaultiana. 



Flowers white, stems erect wood-land and shade-lovmg 



y plants t) 



[Flowers small, nearly sessile on capillary peduncles. . . 

 J A. monosperma. 



[ Flowers J^ inch in close panicles ..... A. Sp. 



