160 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



In all the Provinces. — Distrib. Sub-tropical Himalaya ; Assam ; 

 Malay Archipelago. 



5. Hedyotis glabra, R. Br. Wall. Cat. 848. A glabrous erect 

 herb, 18 to 24 in. high; stems woody at the base, terete even when dry, 

 slightly striate, thicker than a crow-quill, somewhat smaller near the 

 nodes. Leaves linear-lanceolate tapering much to each end, when dry 

 pale yellowish-olivaceous and with recurved edges ; main-nerves 3 or 4 

 pairs, straight, oblique, ascending, prominent like the midrib on the 

 lower and depressed on the upper surface, length 1*75 to 3 in. ; breadth 

 •15 to "4 in. ; petiole '1 to "15 in. long. Stipules adnate to the petioles 

 to form a campanulate cup with truncate mouth bearing a few long 

 bristles. Cymes in small trichotomous axillary pedunculate panicles 

 from "35 to 1"25 in. long, minutely puberulous, and minutely bracteolate. 

 Flowers less than 'l in. long, on short pedicels of varying length. Calyx 

 narrowly campanulate ; the lobes spreading, triangular, sub -acute. Corolla 

 tubular, its lobes oblong, blunt, sub-ei-ect. Fruit globular, crowned by 

 the calyx-lobes, about '1 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 183 ; 

 Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 59. Spermacoce glabra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 368. 

 Knoxia glabra, DO. Prod. IV. 669. 



Penang : Schomburgh, King, Deschamps, Eidley 5749 ; King's Collec- 

 tor 1370. Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 892; Griffith (K.D.) 2885.— 

 Distrib. British India. 



6. Hedyotis stipdlata, R. Br. in Wall. Cat. 6195 and 863a. 

 Stems herbaceous decumbent, rooting, less than a foot high, branching ; 

 branches (when dry) slightly compressed, deeply 2-grooved, slightly 4- 

 angled, puberulous. Leaves membranous, ovate to narrowly elliptic- 

 oblong, the apex sub-acute, the base much narrowed to the short winged 

 petiole ; both surfaces olivaceous brown when dry ; the upper glabrous ; 

 the lower paler, sparsely pubescent on the 3 or 4 pairs of spreading 

 slightly curved little prominent main-nerves ; length '75 to 1*75 in. ; 

 breadth '4 to '8 in. ; petioles "2 to "3 in. Stipules cupular, short, the 

 mouth wavy and bearing a few short bristles. Peduncles axillary and 

 terminal, from half as long to as long as the leaves, each bearing a 

 dense 3- to 6-flowered head about '35 in. in diam. (when dry). Flowers 

 •15 in. long, sub-sessile. Calyx compressed, obovoid, glabrous, the lobes 

 deep lanceolate, acuminate, spreading. Corolla short tubular, with 

 oblong blunt broad lobes. Anthers oblong, large, sessile. Capsules 

 longer than the flowers, broadly obovoid, almost reniform, compressed, 

 glabrous, crowned by the enlarged triangular acuminate recurved calyx- 

 lobes, dehiscent by apical valves ; seeds numerous, brown. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 63. H. Lindleyana, Hook. MSS. in W. & A. Prod. 409. 

 Oldenlandia japonica, Miq. in Ann. Mns. Lugd. Bot. II. 194. 0. hirsuta, 



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