Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 165 



about as thick as a crow-quill, when dry dark-coloured, the older sub- 

 terete, the younger deeply 2-grooved and slightly 4-angled. Leaves often 

 in whorls of 4 or 6, coriaceous, sessile, linear, sub-acute, the bases 

 passing into the stipules. Stipules cupular, short, the mouth truncate, 

 with about 6 erect flat stout bristles; length 1 to 1*5 in. ; breadth "1 to 

 •15 in. Cymes very short (under '2 in. long), axillary, crowded. Flowers 

 •15 in. long, sessile, surrounded by numerous bracteoles bearing long 

 erect bristles. Calyx compressed, obovoid-campanulate, pilose towards 

 the apex ; the mouth with 4 lanceolate, acute, spreading, deciduous lobes. 

 Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes, sub-tubular; lobes of the 

 mouth short with thickened apices. Anthers broadly ovoid, sessile- 

 DC. Prod. IV. 419; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 60. H. angustifolia, 

 Cham. & Schlect. in Linnsea IV. 153. H. approximata, Wall. Cat. 

 Sb2. ? Spermacoce tubularis, Br. in Wall. Cat. 836. Scleromitron tenelli- 

 fiorum, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Ai'ch. II, 155. S. tetraquetrum, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bot. II. 186. Oldenlandia angustifolia, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 151. 



Penang: Ridley 7097. Province Wellesley: Curtis 2236. 

 Malacca : Hervey. 



16. Hedyotis nitida, W. & A. Prod. Fl. Penins. Ind. 412. 

 Diffuse, sometimes with woody roots ; stems about as thick as a crow- 

 quill, 2-grooved, sharply 4-angled, the angles often minutely hispid. 

 Leaves coriaceous, sessile, narrowly lanceolate or linear, the edges much 

 recurved, nerves none, but the midrib prominent beneath; the upper 

 surface olivaceous when dry, shining and minutely pitted, quite glab- 

 rous ; the lower dull pale brown ; length '6 to 1 in. ; breadth '1 to ^25 

 in. Stipules continuous with the bases of the leaves, deeply campanulate, 

 •pubescent outside, the mouth bearing 6 to 8 long erect shining 

 bristles. Inflorescence axillary, sub-sessile, 2- to 4-flowered. Flowers 

 •2 in. long, minutely bracteolate, sessile or on very short pedicels. Calyx 

 tubular-campanulafce, shortly hispid ; the mouth with 4 deep, ovate-acute, 

 ciliate, sub-erect lobes. Corolla included in the calyx, pubescent, tubular, 

 its mouth with 4 narrowly ovate sub-acute erect lobes. Anthers oblong, 

 sessile. Capsule ovoid, crowned by the long erect stiff calyx-lobes, 

 dehiscing by apical valves, sub-glabrous ; seeds numerous, brown. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 61. R. Neesiana, Arn. Pugill. 23. H. glabella, 

 Br. in. Wall. Cat. 886, Bedd. Ic. PI. t. 36. 



Perak: Scortechini ; Wray 3680. Penang : King. — Distrib. British 

 India; Ceylon. 



This species, which closely resembles H. hispida, Retz., and H. tenelliflora, Bl., 

 has not hitherto been recorded from the Malay Peninsula or Islands. The specimens 

 from Penang and Perak have smaller leaves than the majority of those from British 

 India and Oeylon, but otherwise they agree. 



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