RUBIACE^. 189 



Anotis leschcnaultiana Wight and Arnott ; F.B.I. iii 

 72, XXII 3. A small herb with ovate hairy leaves and 

 flat bunches of pinkish purple flowers. 



Whole plant except the corolla tube hairy. Stems 

 weak and rooting at the nodes : stipular band joining 

 the leaf-stalks bristly. Leaves ovate acute, with four 

 or five pairs of rather broad hairy nerves on each side 

 of the midrib, about 1/16 inch apart, running very 

 regularly to the margin and without connecting veins. 

 Inflorescence regularly and cymosely trichotomous with 

 minute toothed bracts. Pedicels 1/16 inch, calyx-tube 

 1/20 inch; teeth four, 1/16 inch. Corolla tube ^ inch, 

 glabrous on the outside, very slightly hairy inside : lobes 

 four spreading flat, 1/12 by ^ inch, stamens erect, the 

 filaments white and attached to the backs of the small 

 purple introrse anthers. Style slender : stigma bifid : top 

 of ovary round and flat, not grooved. Capsule didymous, 

 with hemispherical raised crown, two-seeded with one to 

 eight seeds in each cell : seeds deeply pitted, t. 139. 



Common on the downs. 



Gen. Disi. Western Ghats of South India. 



var 1 type, Herb. Wight Prop. 1398 ! ; leaves i inch 

 or more, hairy : panicle 2 to 4 inches across, hairy : stipular 

 bristles long. Stems erect or trailing, often on a bare sloping 

 patch. Wight III. t. 125 but flowers pink not blue. Fyson 

 3049. Bourne 33. 



var ^ affinis, Herb. Wight Prop. 1297!; plant smaller 

 than var 1. Leaves /^ to % inch hairy; stipular bristles short ; 

 panicle i to 2 inches, forms flat patches a foot or more 

 across in short grass ; very fetid ; stems often red on the 

 upper side. Wight Ic. t. 1030. Bourne 294, 2904. 



var 3 dcltoides. Herb. Wight Prop. 1298 !; leaves J^ 

 to % inch, nearly glabrous, as also the cymes. 



Anotis Sp.y var Hedyotis stipulata Br., in Wall. Cat. 

 6lQ5 ; F.B.I. iii 63. A weak fetid plant, straggling 

 through others in the shade, with terminal bunches of 

 white or pale pink, long-tubed, fragrant flowers. 



