624 LXX. RUBIACE.i:. 



2. Spermacoce hispida, Linn. /S)j. PL (1753) p. 102. A pro- 

 cumbent herb; stems quadrangular, hirsute, hispid, or subglabrous, 

 usually with long internodes. Leaves subsessile, |-2 by j-f in., oblong 

 or elliptic, acute, scabrid, pubescent, or nearly glabrous, with scabrid or 

 ciliate margins ; stipules membranous, hi.spid, with few bristles which 

 are usually longer than the sheath. Flowers 4-6, in a whorl within the 

 stipularcup; pedicels short ; bracts lanceolate-subulate, hyaline. Calyx 

 hispid, ^ in. long ; tube narrowly campanulate ; teeth as long as the 

 tube, linear-lanceolate, very acutely pointed, rcflexed, hairy. Corolla 

 pale-blue or white, ^-i in. long ; lobes yV in. long, oblong, acute, bristly 

 on the back near the tip. Stigmas 2, very short. Capsules 1 in. long, 

 hairy, ellipsoid, rounded at both ends, crowned with the calyx-teeth, 

 one mericarp only ventrally dehiscent, the other closed by the septum 

 which remains attached to it, finally separating as a membi'anous plate. 

 Seeds ^-^ in. long, ^-ellipsoid, one end rounded, the other truncate, 

 finely granulate, rounded on the back, with a deep groove on the flat face, 

 brown, n. B. I. v. 3, p. 200 ; Grab. Cat. p. 93 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. Ill ; 

 Trim. Fh Ceyl. v. 2, p. 371 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. 64G ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod, y. 6, part 3, p. 320.— Flowers : Sept.- 

 Oct. Yebn. MadangJianti. 



KoNKAx : Latvl; Y ingorln, Kanitkarl S.M. Country: Castlerock, (7ooAe I ; Louda, 

 Bkiva ; Belgautu, Eiichie, 358 ! 



33. GAILLONIA, A. Eicli. 



Low rigid branched shrubs. Leaves small, rigid, opposite, linear 

 or subulate ; stipules usually connate with the petioles into a 2-setose or 

 2-spinous sheath, rarely remote from the petiole or obsolete. Flowers 

 small, solitary, or in simple spicate cymes, white. Calyx-tube ovoid ; 

 limb 2-7-toothed or -lobed, dilated after flowering into a scarious crenate 

 wing or feathery bristles. Corolla iufundibuliform ; throat naked ; 

 lobes 4-5, valvate. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the throat or tube of the 

 corolla ; filaments short ; anthers linear-oblong. Disk inconspicuous. 

 Ovary 2-ceUed ; ovules solitary iu each cell, attached to the middle 

 of the septum, amphitropous ; style filiform, with 2 short linear branches. 

 Fruit small, ovoid, of 2 terete indehiscent cocci, crowned with the 

 enlarged calyx. Seeds oblong, ventrally grooved ; albiimen horny ; 

 cotyledons flat ; radicle slendei', inferior. — Distrib. W. Asia and 

 N. Africa ; species 10. 



1. Gaillonia hymenostephana, Jcmh. ^- SpacJi, 111. PI. Or. v. 1 

 (1842) p. 146, t. 79. A small shrub 6-12 in. high, fetid when fresh ; 

 stem as thick as a goose-quill, irregularly branched ; branches numerous, 

 terete, slender, hoary and scaberulous. Leaves i-| by jV'"tV '"^•' 

 linear-oblong, sessile, subobtuse, attenuated at the base, scabrid, 

 margins cihate, sometimes recurved ; stipules of the lower leaves 

 usually obsolete, those of the upper small, membranous, connate. 

 Flowers terminal, solitary, or in 2-3-flowei'ed fascicles. Calyx-tube 

 -jlg- in. long, hairy ; limb membranous, retioulately veined, subpellucid, 

 pale-yellow, hairy, unequally 5-7-lobed, the lobes rounded or broadly 

 ovate, apiculate or acuminate, small before flowering, afterwards 

 enlarged to a diameter of about 5 in. when spread out. Corolla white, 

 -i-l in. long, iufundibuliform ; lobes 5, hairy outside, glabrous inside, 

 much shorter than the tube, linear, subobtuse. Fruit small, of 2 terete 



