500 LXX. niUIACE-E. 



teeth Jy iu. long ; the teeth in fruit ^^ in. loug^ triangulaiv acute, their 

 bases touching. Coralla white, shorty but little exserted be^yond the 

 calyx ; tube about j^^ in. long. Capsules ^ in. long.obovoid or pyriforra, 

 ghibrous, ribbed^ crowned by the broad triangular calyx-teeth which 

 touch at their bases, the crown of the capsule not protruded. Tl. B. I. 

 y\ 3y p. 65. Oidenlandia inunila, DC. Prodr. v. 4, p. 425. 



Rare. S. M. Country : Belgauai, StosJcs, o3G !, liitckie, 1781 !— Distruj. Sparingly 

 throughout the plains of India ; Java. 



5. Oidenlandia umbellata^ Linn. Si\ PI (1753) p. 119. Annual ; 

 stems semi-woody at the base, 0-10 in. high, much-branched from the 

 base ; branches more or less angular and rough. Leaves niniierous, 

 often fascicled, rather close, sessile, |-1 by i-i in., linear, flat, very 

 acute ; stiptdes short, pectinate. llowers 3-10, in small irregular 

 axillary peduncled umbels ; peduncles usttally longer than the leaves, 

 stotit, erect, pubescent ; pedicels very short, pubescent. Calyx (in 

 flower) I iu. long ; teeth j\ in. long, triangular, cuspidate, ciliolate. 

 Corolla g in. long, glabrous" on both sides; lobes triaugular-oblong, 

 equalling the tube. Capsules globose, J^ in. in diam., glabrous, crowned 

 with the not very distant calyx-teeth, the top of the capsule not 

 protruded. Tl. B. I. v. 2, p. 66 ; Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 3 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 2, p. 316 ; Woodr. in Joujrn. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 644 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 481. — Flowers : Aug.-Dec. Yeek. Chirval. 



Deccan : Wadi on the G. I. P. Eailwav line, Woodrow ! I have only had the 

 plant from tlie locality above named. — Distrib. India (Orissa, Bengal, Birma, 

 W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



The root of the plant known commercially as Chay-root or Indian Madder furnishes 

 a permanent red dye which was much used in Madras where the jjlant has been 

 extensively cultivated. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



6. Oidenlandia trinervia, Retz. Ohs. Bot. fasc. 4 (1786) p. 23. 

 A small procumbent leafy annual ; stems weak, flaccid, slender, angular, 

 glabrous or slightly hairy, often rooting near the base. Leaves 

 numerous, |-| in., broadly elliptic or suborbicular, tapering to the base 

 or to an obscure petiole, glabrous or nearly so, very thin, distinctly 

 3-nerved from the base ; stipules 2-partite, acuminate. Flowers 1-6 in 

 the axils of the leaves, sessile or very shortly pedicelled. Calyx hairy ; 

 teeth short, narrowly lanceolate, acute. Corolla rotate, white (DaJzell). 

 Fruit globose, very hairy, dehiscing by a wide cii'cular opening at the 

 top, the crown not protruded. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 66 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 2, p. 316. Bedyoiis trinervia, Ecem. & Schult. Syst. v. 3 (1818) 

 p. 197; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 115 ; Bedd. Icon. PI. Ind. Or. t. 29.— Flowers : 

 July. 



liitchic (ex Herb. Bdzell), 1780 ! without locality. Herb. Stocks without locality in 

 Herb. Kew. f Konkan : Malwan, Bahell ^" Gibson. 



7. oidenlandia dichotoma, Hod: f. FL B. I. v. 3 (1880) p. 67. 

 A very slender annual 8-18 iu. high ; stem erect, terete, usually 

 glabrous ; branches filiform, the ultimate ones like fine hairs. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, flat, the lower leaves larger than the upper, 

 1-3 by 7— 1\ in., some of the uppermost leaves sometimes not being more 

 than |-| by ^-jV i"- 5 stipules small, truncate, without bristles, or 

 sometimes with 2-3 short bristles. Flowers white (Ritchie), on long 

 capillary pedicels, rarely solitary, sometimes 2-3 from the apex of a 



