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pedicels '2 to "5 in. long. Calyx cylindric or campanulate with small 

 lanceolate acute spreading teeth. Corolla much exceeding the calyx, 

 deeply cut into 4 oblong, blunt, nerved lobes. Stamens slightly shorter 

 than the corolla ; anthers linear, as long as the slender filament. Capsule 

 turbinate, the top broad, the persistent calyx-teeth small. Seeds numer- 

 ous. Hook. fil. n. Br. Ind. III. 70. 0. rotundifoUa, G. Don Syst. III. 

 530. 0. ovalifolia and 0. spergulacea, DC. Prod. IV. 427, 428. Hedyotis 

 scapigera, R. Br. in Wall. Cat, 881. E. nudicaulis, W. & A. Prod. 416 ; 

 Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 34. E. ovalifolia Cav. Ic 573. E. rotundifoUa^ 

 Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6190 (not of DC.) E. spergulacea, Kurz in Journal 

 As. Soc. Beng. 1877, II. 134. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2898. Kedah: Curtis 2669.— Distrib. 

 British India ; Java ; Philippines. 



2. Oldenlandia paniculata, Linn. Sp. PI. 1667. Herbaceous, 

 annual, glabrous, drying a pale olivaceous colour, erect or diffuse, much 

 branched ; young branches acutely 4-angled, sometimes narrowly winged, 

 about as thick as a crow-quill. Leaves membranous, elliptic or elliptic- 

 oblong, sub-acute, narrowed gradually at the base to the short petiole, 

 both surfaces dull when dry, the nerves indistinct ; linear with the 

 midrib distinct; length "4 to '75 in.; breadth '2 to "3 in.; petiole '1 to 

 •2 in. Stipules short, cupular, truncate, without bristles or with only 1 

 or 2 in the middle. Cymes in the upper axils or terminal, on peduncles 

 as long as or not more than twice as long as the leaves, lax, few-flowered, 

 minutely bracteolate. Flowers under '1 in. long, on thin pedicels two or 

 three times longer than themselves. Calyx campanulate, with 4 rather 

 distinct narrow teeth. Corolla not much exceeding the calyx-teeth. 

 Capsule slightly compressed, turbinate, more than "1 in. diam. ; crowned 

 by the small spreading calyx-teeth ; seeds numerous, black. Burm. PI. 

 Ind. 38, t. 15, f. 1 ; DC. Prod. IV. 427 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 69. 0. alata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 421 (not of Koenig). Eedyotis racemosa, 

 W. & A. Prod. 414; Wight Ic. t. 312; Wall. Cat. 875 (in part). E. 

 paniculata, Lam. Encyc. III. 79 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877 II. 

 134. E. minima, Heyne, Wall. Cat. 877. 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 2902. Perak : Scortechini 1107.— Distrib. 

 British India ; Malay and Philippine Islands ; China ; Polynesia. 



3. Oldenlandia dichotoma. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 67. Annual, 

 herbaceous, erect, branching; stems glabrous or very sparsely and 

 minutely hispidulous, as thick as a crow-quill, obscurely 4-augled, pale 

 brown when dry. Leaves membranous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 

 tapering to both ends ; upper surface olivaceous, somewhat scaberulous, 

 sparsely and minutely hispidulous ; the lower pale, glabrous, nerves 

 invisible, midrib broad and distinct on the lower surface; length 75 to 



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