77. RUBIACE.E. [28. Anotis. 



11. 0. gracillis, DC. 



A slender, almost grass-like herb, with sparingly In-anched stem 

 8-18" high, erect linear-acuminate glabrous flat grass-like leaves 

 l"o-3'5" long, and narrow panicles of erect pale-brown or lurid green- 

 l>urple flowers very easily recognised by the corolla, S-'o" long on 

 very long slender j^edicels. Capsules •17-'25". 



Open grassy places, noticeable especially after q-i-ass fires. Champaran ! 

 Purneah ! Plateau and Pats of Ohota Na<?pur (Hazaribayh, Manbhum, Neterhat 

 etc.j ! Fl., Fr. Feb. -June. 



A very distinct species. 



12. 0. paniculata, L. 



A more leafy and usually stouter species thanany of the preceding,, 

 much branched from the base with stems 6-18" long obtusely 

 4-angled. L. elliptic to broadly elliptic, acute or obtuse, '5-2" long 

 and often -5" broad, sec. n. scarcely visible, base narrowed into a 

 petiole. Fls. in axillary and terminal cymes which are only 2-fld. in 

 impoverished plants bitt iip to 10-fld. in luxuriant ones. Sepals very 

 small deltoid. Corolla-tube short. Capsule "l" and often broader,, 

 top usuall}^ ridged and projecting beyond the sepals. Seeds sub- 

 globose, pitted. 



Northern tract : Darbhanga ! Southern tract : Puri district 'Balugaon) Hooper \ 

 Fl., Fr. apparently throughout the year. 

 Stipules with only two median bristles. 



13. 0. nudicaulis, Rotli. 



A small herb 1-6" high with either two pairs of leaves or a loAver 

 small pair and two pairs above which are sometimes separated by 

 such a short internode as to appear whorled. Stem furfuraceous or 

 with thick hairs below, naked towards tlie panicle. Leaves broadly 

 elliptic or ovate, the larger 1-2" long, flaccid, pubescent on the 

 nerves beneath ^and ciliate. FloAvers small, white, with slender 

 pedicels in long stalked dichotomous cymes often bearing a pair of 

 bract-leaves at the first fork. Calyx-teeth slender nearly as long as 

 the tube in floAver, widely separate and minute in fruit. Corolla 

 lobes valvate rotate, oblong, •06-"08", tube very short, throat villous. 

 Capsule compressed, •l"diam., loculicidally dehiscent at the top. Seeds 

 dark broAvn, slightlj^ pitted, obscurely angled. 



Freqiient in waste ground, open forest, etc. Chota Nagpur ! Fl., Fr. Aug-.-Oct. 



Stems rarely branched with each branch bearing a whorl of leaves. L. with 4-5 

 distinct oblique sec. n., apex rounded. Cymes 2-4" long, one from each of the 

 axils of the first jjair of larger leaves and three terminal, 



28. ANOTIS, DC. 



Prostrate or ascending rarely erect herbs with stipules like those of 

 Oldenlandia . Flowers in cymes. Hyp. short, sepals usually distant, 

 4. Cor. tubular or funnel-shaped, lobes 4, shorter than tube, valvate. 

 Ovary 2- rarely 3-4-celled, ovules few in each cell on placentae 

 ascending from near the base of the septum. Capsule didymous or 

 laterally compressed, loculicidally 2-valved at the toj), cells 1-few- 

 seeded. Seeds peltate, boat-shaped or plano-oonve.K, coarsely pitted. 

 Embryo clavate. 



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