916 Rubiaceae, 
glabrous or bearded; limb 4- or rarely 5-lobed, regular; lobes nearly 
linear lanceolate ovate oval or oblong, obtuse or acuminate, valvate 
in the bud. Stamens 4 or rarely 5, inserted at or rather below the 
throat of the corolla, exserted or included, glabrous; anthers oblong 
or linear, fixed at the back near the base; filaments short. Disk 
fleshy, inconspicuous. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, included or 
exserted, entire or with 2 short linear branches, glabrous; ovules 
numerous. Capsule dehiscing longitudinally at or from the apex or 
dicoccous or tardily dehiscent, small, membranous or coriaceous. 
Seeds numerous, small, more or less angular or rarely orbicular, 
imbedded in the corrugations of, peltately attached to, the thick 
placentas; testa thin, smooth or minutely granulated; albumen fleshy 
or horny; embryo small, clavate. Herbs or shrubs with opposite 
leaves. acuminate or setose stipules adnate to the petiole or leaf-base, 
and small or delicate flowers arranged in terminal or axillary panicles 
or clusters. 
A considerable genus found in the hotter parts of both the Old and 
New Worlds. 
A. Flowers tetramerous. 
I. Corolla salver-shaped, exceeding the calyx . 1. O. Schimperi. 
II. Corolla funnel-shaped, scarcely exceeding the 
calyx = . O. capensis. 
B. Flowers pentamerous. .......... . . 38. O. hedyotoides. 
bo 
1272. (1.) Oldenlandia Schimperi T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. Lond. V, Supplem. I (1803), p. 41. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IIL, p. 11. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. dig. p. 83 no. 491. Kohautia 
caespitosa’ Schnizlein in Flora XXV., Beibl.I no. 10 (1842), p. 145. 
— Hedyotis Schimperi Presl in Drege Plant. cap. and Bot. Bemerk., 
p. 85. — Oldenlandia retrorsa Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 12. — An 
ascending or decumbent rigid, glandular-scabrous perennial or annual, 
30—60 cm high herb. Branches virgate, leafy at the base, sparingly 
so above, terete. Leaves linear (narrowly or broadly so), sessile, 
1—2’/, cm long; stipules 3—1-cuspidate. Flowers tetramerous, 2 to 
10 mm long, subsessile and pedicellate, in terminal corymbose cymes. 
Calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate, about equalling the tube. Corolla 
salver-shaped; tube slender, several times the length of the calyx; 
limb small; lobes narrowly oval, subobtuse, 4 mm long. Capsule 
subglobose, subdidymous, truncate and loculicidally splitting at the 
apex, base sub-turbinate. Seeds angular. — Flow. January to April. 
D. a. mer. Kene. 
Local name: moswak. 
Also known from Tropical Africa, Arabia Petraea, Belutchistan and Scinde. 
