592 LXX. RUlilACE.-E. 



tube -j'^g in. long, very sletider ; lobes 4- in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse. 

 Capsules ellipsoid, ■^— ^ in. long, glabrou?, slightly protruded beyond 

 Ihe calyx. Hedi/otis aspera, Bedd. Icon. Pi. Ind. Or. t. 32 {not of 

 Heyne). — Flowers : Apr. 



Rare in the Bombay Presidency. S. M. Country: Belgaum, TiWi/iiVl — Distrib. 

 Throughout India in hilly districts; Ava. 



11. Oldenlandia senegalensis, IIier)\, in Oliver, FI. Trop. Afr. 

 V. 3 (1877) p. 5G. Annual, 8-lG in. high, sparingly branched ; stem 

 very erect, glabrous or minutely scaberulous, slender, wiry. Leaves 

 1^2 by 2V~8 ^'^•' ^^^ whorled, linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 apicnlate, fiat or with slightly recurved margins ; stipules with lateral 

 bristles, i'lowers in very lax open terminal pyramidal panicled cymes ; 

 peduncles long, slender ; pedicels capillary, 1-2 in. long. Calyx yL in. 

 long ; teeth subulate, slightly shorter than the obovoid calyx-tube. 

 Corolla \-\ in. long ; lobes y2" ^^- ^'^^?,i linear, acute or acuminate. 

 Capsules \ in. in diam., on long filiform pedicels, globose, crowned 

 by the verv distant calyx-teeth which are below the top of the capsule. 

 Y\. B. I. V. 3, p. 68 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. U (1898) 

 p. 644. — Flowers : Sept. 



Deccan : Kirkee, Woodrow ; Poona, Woodrow, 192 .' — Distrib. India (Chota 

 Nagpore) ; W. Tropical Africa. 



Sir J. Hooker (Fl. B. I. 1. c.) referred tbis to the Senegal plant witb hesitation. 

 The flowers are smaller than tliose of the African plant, but as there are only 3 slieets 

 in Herb. Kew., of which 2 (collected by one and the same collector) are from Chota 

 Nagpore and tlie other from the Deccan, the material is still insuflicient for accurate 

 determination. 



12. ANOTIS, DC. 



Herbs prostrate or ascending, rarely erect, often with flaccid hairs. 

 Leaves opposite ; stipules interpetiolar, usually bristly. Flowers small, 

 in heads or in axillary and terminal cymes. Calyx-tube compressed ; 

 lobes 4, erect or recurved, usually with broad sinuses. Corolla tubular 

 or infundibuliform ; lobes 4, ovate, usually shorter than the tube, 

 valvate in bud. Stamens 4 ; filaments short or long ; anthers included 

 or exserted. Ovary 2 (rarely 3-4) -celled ; ovules usually few (rarely 1) 

 in each cell on placentas ascending from near the base of the septum ; 

 style filiform ; stigmas 2-4, linear. Capsule didymous, laterally 

 compressed, the crown produced, loculicidally 2-valved at top, rarely 

 indehiscent ; cells 1-few (rarely many) -seeded. Seeds peltate, boat- 

 shaped or plano-convex ; testa coarsely pitted ; embryo clavate in horny 

 albumen. — Disteib. Chiefly Tropical Asia ; species about 25. 



Cymes corymbose. 



Capsule subglobose ; calyx-teeth suberect in fruit, a 



little below the top of the capsule 1. A. LcschcnaiiUiaiia. 



Captule broader than long, reaching \ in. broad ; calyx- 

 teeth large, deflexed in fruit, a little below the top 



of the capsule , 2. A, lancifoUa. 



Capsule globose, ^^ in. in diam.; calyx- teeth minute, |-way 



down or more from the top of the capsule in fruit ... 3. A. Rhecdei. 

 Cymes clustered ; capsules in clusters or heads. 



Leaves fleshy ; calyx-teeth large 4. A. carnosa. 



Leaves membranous. 



Capside usually 4-lobed and 4-celled ; calyx-teeth 



minute... 5. A. qtiadrilocidaris. 



