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3, Hedtotis capitellata, Wall. Cat. 837 (in part). Scandent, 

 glabrous, greenish when dry ; young branches slender, 4-angled, the 

 older usually terete. Leaves thickly membranous, lanceolate or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, the base more or less cuneate ; lower surface 

 darker than the upper ; main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, ascending, very little 

 curved, rather prominent (like the midrib) beneath length 1*5 to 2-75 

 in.; breadth "75 to 1'25 in. ; petiole "l to '15 in. Stipules short, broad, 

 with long coarse teeth. Inflorescence panicled, pedunculate, mostly 

 terminal ; the primary branches trichotomous ; the secondary branches 

 divaricate, each bearing a linear reflexed bracteole at its base and at its 

 apex a dense capitulum of flowers. Flowers '4 in. long, sub-sessile. 

 OaZi/.x' a little more than -1 in. long, campanulate, ribbed ; the mouth 

 with 4 broad, ovate, lanceolate, acute spreading teeth, with a few hairs 

 on their edges. Corolla tubular in bud, deeply divided into 4 narrowly 

 oblong blunt spreading lobes, glabrous outside but with many coarse 

 hairs inside. Capsule narrowly obovoid, sub-compressed, grooved, glab- 

 rous, a little more than "1 in long. Seeds several in each cell, black. 

 G. Don Gen. Syst. III. 527 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877, II. 135 

 (excl. var. 7). Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 57. Oldenlandia ruhioideSy 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 353. H. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6189. 



In all the provinces j common. — Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



4. Hedyotis VESTiTA, R. Br. in Wall. Cat. 847. A diffuse little- 

 branched hei'b I to 4 feet long, all parts, except the upper surfaces of 

 the leaves, softly pubescent ; stems and branches slender, 4-angled and 

 4-grooved when dry. Leaves membranous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 

 more or less acuminate, the base narrowed ; upper surface sparsely 

 adpressed-pubescent ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, ascending obliquely, 

 almost straight, depressed on the upper and prominent on the lower 

 surface; length 2 to 35 in ; breadth '6 to 1 in. ; petiole -15 to "25 in. ; 

 Stipules short, broad, crowned by one to three bristly or subulate pro- 

 cesses. Liflorescence axillary, consisting of few-flowd'ed head-like um 

 bellate cymes, on simple peduncles or in small panicles, bracteolate. 

 Flowers about "05 in. long, sessile or sub-sessile. Calyx cupular, with 4 

 deltoid or lanceolate, spreading, narrow acuminate lobes. Corolla blue or 

 violet, funnel-shaped, hairy externally and in the throat, its lobes re- 

 curved. Fruit dry, sub-indehiscent, broadly turbinate or obovate, less 

 than "05 in. long; seeds numerous, compressed. G. Don Gen. Syst. III. 

 526; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 58. H. costata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, II. 135 (not of R. Br.) R. coertilea, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 

 II. 160, H. capituliflora, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 183. Metabolns coeruleus, 

 Bl. Bijd. 992; DC. Prod. IV. 435. M. lineatus, Bartl. in DC. Prod. I.e. 

 Spermacoce costata, Roxb. Fl. Beng. 10 ; Fl. Ind. I. 370. 



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