Leaves sessile, siihsessile or sliortly ])etiole(l, ovate or ovate-lanceolate or 

 sometimes quite lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or slightly pubescent on 

 the nerves above, hairy on the nerves beneath, base acute or rounded; 

 main lateral nerves impressed above, prominent beneath, curved ; petioles 

 very short or 0; stipules membranous, furnished with 3 or 5 unequal 

 filiform bristles. Elowers white, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, in 

 dense sessile or subsessile axillary cymes. Calyx-teeth small, triangular 

 or lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla-tube very short ^ lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 ri'curved, hairy at the base. Capsules globose, hard, hairy or nearly 

 glabrous, indehiscent. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 58 ; Bedd. Icon. 1*1. I.nd. Or. 

 t. 27 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 313 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 208. 

 /fcJi/otis VL'sftla, Woodr. in .Tourn. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. G44 

 ()iot of Br. in Wall. Cat.). — Flowers : Sept.-Nov. 



Ivonkan: Ka7iif/car) ; Savaiitwafi, JVoodrow) S. M. Coustrv : Londa, Bkival; 

 Castlcrock, Coo/ccl; north of Dliarwar, Ritchie, 271 ! Kanaka: Kimipta, Wvodrow\; 

 buuks of the Kdla naddi, Ritchie, 271 1 



2. Hedyotis caerulea, 7%7/; ^- Am. Prodr. (1834) p. 412. 

 Annual, erect, 4-1.3 in. high, much-branched from a little above the 

 base ; branches terete, slender, rough to the touch. Leaves opposite or 

 fascicled, usually j|-| by ^V'To ^"•' ^ii^ear, sessile, bristle -pointed, 

 minutely scaberulous above, 1-uerved, the margins reflexed ; stipules 

 pectinate with filiform bristles. Flowers blue {Wight ^- Am.), sa^We 

 or nearly so, iu axillary and terminal sessile capitate few-flowered cymes, 

 or sometimes solitary in the forks. Calyx -1— i in. long ; teeth lanceolate, 

 rigid, tipped with a fine sharp bristle. Capsule globose, pubescent or 

 glabrous, loculicidally dehiscent on the top only, crowned with the erect 

 calvx-teeth which about equal the capsule. Fl. E. I. v. 3, p. 60 : Bedd. 

 Icon. PI. Ind. Or. t. 30 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 312. 



Rare. Herb. Stocks witliout locality ! Kanara, Dharwar, and Bellary districts. 

 Law I The plant is included on the authority of Law, who states that it has been 

 found in the Dharwar districts. I have seen no specimens from the Bombay 

 Presidency. 



3. Hedyotis nitida, VTijId c^- Am. Prodr. (1834) p. 412. Annual ; 

 branches numerous, prostrate or ascending, 4-angled, slightly rough on 

 the angles. Leaves subsessile, 1-21 by \-h, in., lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, rigid, light-green, glabrous and shining above, scabrous 

 towards the much-recurved margins, whitish and with the midrib oftea 

 rough beneath, base usually acute ; nerves (except the strong midrib) not 

 visible ; stipules with numerous long bristles. Flowers solitary or few, 

 axillary, sessile. Calyx glabrous ; teeth rigid, triangular, shortly spinoso- 

 ciliate. Capsules \ in. long, dehiscent at the top only, ovoid, glabrous, 

 veined, crowned by the erect calyx-teeth which about equal the capsule. 

 Seeds numerous, pale-brown, angled. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. Gl : Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. v. 2, p. 312. Redqotis cflabeUa, Br. in AVall. Cat. 88G ; Bedd. Icon. 

 PI. Ind. Or. t. 36; Watt, i>ict. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 209.— Flowers : 

 Sept.-Xov. 



S. Jr. CocNTRY : north of Dliarwar, Ritchie, 3."»7 I : Londa, Woodrow I, Bhiva ! 

 Kanaka: Kala naddi, Ritchie, 3571 — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula, Tenasserini) ; 

 Ceylon. 



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