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1'25 in. ; breadth '1 to '2 in. ; petiole '05 in. to 0. Stipules cupular, very 

 short, with small obscure teeth not bristly. Cymes axillary and termin- 

 al, with many long slender dichotomous few-flowered, angular, sub- 

 hispidulous branches ; the lateral cymes 1 to 2 in. long, the terminal one 

 3 to 5 in., with leaf-like linear bracts varying from "25 to "5 in. in length. 

 Flowers '2 in. long, clavate in bud, solitary at the ends of the ultimate 

 hair-like branchlets. Calyx campanulate ; the lobes 4, lanceolate, sub- 

 erect, sub-glabrous, often with smaller lobes interposed. Corolla twice 

 as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped, the tube long and narrow ; the limb 

 wide, with 4 spreading lanceolate teeth, glabrous. Capsules less than '1 

 in. in diam., sub-globular, crowned by the small distant erect calyx- 

 teeth, glabrous, dehiscent. Seeds numerous, brown. Hedyotis dichotomuy 

 Koen. ex Roth Nov. Sp. 93 ; Wall. Cat. 6204 {in part) ; W. & A. Prod. 

 416 (excl. some synonyms). H. affinis, Roem. & Sch. Syst. 194. H. 

 Eeynei, Bedd. Ic. PI. In. Or. t. 33 (not of Brown). H. brachiata, Wall. 

 Cat. 6201 {in part) not of Wight. 



Penang: King's Collector J282 ; Curtis 4i94! ; Deschamps. Province 

 Wellesley: King. Malacca: Ridley 17 17. Johor : Ridley 1114<6. 



4. Oldenlandia corymbosa, Linn. Sp. PI. 119. Rather stouter and 

 more branched than 0. dichotoma, and the branches more boldly angled. 

 Leaves usually rather shorter, many of them not exceeding '5 in. in 

 length. Flowers solitary, on pedicels not moi-e than half as long as in 

 0. dichotoma, or in pedunculate 3- to 4-flowered corymbs, othei'wise as in 

 0. dichotoma. Hiern Flora Trop. Afric. III. 62 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 HI. 64 ; Trim. Fl. Cey. I. 314. 0. biflora, Lam. Encyc. IV. 533 (not of 

 Linn.) ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 423. 0. ram,osa, Roxb. 1. c. 424. 0. herbacea, 

 DC. Prod. IV. 425 {not of Linn. ) 0. scabrida, DC. I.e. Hedyotis Burman- 

 niana, Br. in Wall. Cat. 868 in part; W. & A. Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. 415. 

 E. biflora, Roth Nov. Spec. 92 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877, U. 

 133. H. ramosay Bl. Bijdr. 973 ; ? Wight Ic. t. 822. H. intermedia, W. 

 & A. Prod. 415. H. alsinaefolia, Br. in Wall. Cat. 873. H. graminicola, 

 Kurz iu Timen's Journ. Bot. 1875, 326. Gerontogea biflora, Cham. & 

 Schl. in Linnsea. IV. 155.— Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 38. 



Johor: Ridley 2861, 11142. Singapore: King's Collector 27 ; Ridley, 

 Penang : Curtis 494, 1849, 1988. Province Wellesley : King. Anda- 

 MANS : King's Collector. — DisTRiB. British India ; Malay Archipelago ; 

 tropical Africa and America. 



5. Oldenlandia Heynei, G. Don Gen. Syst. Ill, 531. Stouter and 

 taller than 0. dichotoma and drying (especially as regards the under 

 surfaces of the leaves) of a darker colour, and the stems more boldly 

 4-angularj the Aowers solitary but on equally long pedicels as in 0. 

 dichotoma, the capsules slightly larger and wider at the base. Hook. fil. 



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