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petioles '2 to 35 in., pubescent. Stipules adnata to the petioles to form 

 a campanulate cup with acuminate 2- or 3-bristled mouth. Cymes 

 almost sessile, many-flowered, condensed. Flowers nearly sessile, less 

 than "1 in. long. Galyx hairy, campanulate, with 4 spreading ovate or 

 lanceolate acute lobes. Gorolla longer than the calyx, salver-shaped, 

 the lobes narrow. Fruit globular-turbinate, crowned by the spreading 

 calyx-lobes, shortly hairy. Seeds numerous, dark brown. Prod. IV. 

 420; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 365 ; ed. Carey & Wall. I. 369; W. & A. Prod. 

 PI. Penins. Ind. 412 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 58. JS. nervosa, Wall, 

 Cat. 857 (? not of Lam.) H. procumbens, Wall. Cat. 861. H. Uneata, 

 Wall. Cat. 6198 (not of Roxb.) H. costata, R. Br. in Wall. Cat. 849 ; 

 G. Don. Gen. Syst. III. 526. H. muUicatdis, Schldl. PL Hohen. No. 845. 

 IT. venosa, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 160. Metabolus venosus, 

 Bl. ; DC. Prod. IV. 435. Spermacoce hispida, Miq. PI. Hohen. No. 44. 

 Rheede Hort. Malab. X. t. 32. 



Perak: Scortechini 110, 113; Wray 3078, 3085; King's Collector 88. 

 Pahang: EicZZe?/ 1185, 2674. Singapore : EiciZe?/ 2863. Kedah : Ridley 

 5547. Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 891. — Distrib. British India; 

 tropical Australia. 



14. Hedyotis Havilandi, n. sp. King. Herbaceous, often rooting 

 at the lower nodes, woody at the base, green when dry ; stems thicker 

 than a crow-quill, acutely 4-angled and broadly grooved, deciduously 

 scurfy-hairy especially near the nodes, but afterwards glabrous. Leaves 

 membranous, elliptic, tapering to each end, acute, the edges finely 

 undulate when dry; both surfaces, but especially the upper, minutely 

 hispid ; main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, curving upwards, faint on both surfaces 

 (when dry), the midrib pale and prominent on the lower; length 1 to 

 l"5 in. ; breadth "5 to "7 in. ; petiole "3 to '5 in. Stipules triangular, 

 rather shorter than the cymes, much acuminate and with several long 

 lateral teeth, pilose externally. Cymes axillary, sessile, crowded, many- 

 flowered, about '25 in. in diara. Flowers '1 in. long, on short hairy 

 pedicels with a few bracteoles between them. Calyx pubescent, cam- 

 panulate; the tube narrow, its mouth with linear-lanceolate acuminate 

 spreading teeth as long as the tube. Corolla not much exceeding the 

 calyx-lobes, tubular with 4 broad oblong lobes. Anthers oblong, on. rather 

 long filaments. Capsule narrowly ovoid, crowned by the spreading calyx- 

 lobes, thin-walled, sparsely hispid or glabrous, dehiscent, with several 

 brown seeds in each cell. 



Perak : Scortechini ; King's Collector 10254 ; Wray 4062. Penang : . 

 Curtis. — Distrib. Burma ; Borneo, Haviland and Hose, 3450 C. 



15. Hedyotis tenelliplora, Blume Bijdr. 971. Herbaceous, erect, 

 glabrous, a foot or more in height, little-bi'anched. Stems and branches 



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