28. Anotis.] 77. RUBIAQEM. 



1. A. calycina, Wall. 



A glabrous or minutely hairy herb 4-10" high, erect from a creeping 

 base with lanceolate to ovate lanceolate sub-acuminate ciliolate leaves 

 5-2" long. Stipules short and broad with bristles. Flowers sessile 

 and on slender pedicels, very small, lilac, in very divaricate dichasial 

 cymes 2-3" long. Corolla 'lo" long with very slender tube. Capsule 

 •13" broad didymous, widest above, base rather tapering. Seeds 

 brown-black peltate pitted on the convex side. 



Parasnatli, near the top, several times collected, but I have seen it nowhere else 

 in the provicce. Fl.. r.s, Fr. Oct.-Nov. 



29. SPERMACOCE, L. (inc. Borreria). 



Herbs or low imdershrubs with usually square branches ; often 

 with the habit of Sedyotis. Leaves opp. or sub-verticillate with their 

 stipules connate with the petioles into a broad truncate tube with 

 marginal bristles. Fls. small or minute, solitary or in axillary or 

 terminal fascicles or cymes. Calyx-tube (above the hypanthium) 

 hardly any, sejDals usually small, sometimes two smaller or absent, 

 sometimes interposed teeth or bristles present. Cor. funnel- or salver- 

 shaped with 4 valvate lobes. St. 4 on throat or tube often exserted. 

 Ovary 2-celled, style filiform with two short arms or capitate stigmas. 

 Ovule 1 in each cell on the middle of the septum. Capsule dehiscing 

 septicidally or septifragally into tAvo valves or mericarps, and each 

 mericarp loculicidal from the top, or septum sometimes adnate to and 

 closing one mericarp. Seed oblong, ventrally grooved. Cotyledons 

 very thin. Radicle inferior. 



Note. — Meyer makes three genera out of the dehiscence of the capsule, of which 

 two concern us, Spertiiacoce and Borreria {Meyer). In Spermacoce he says the cap- 

 sule is not bipartite, one valve dehisces, the other remains closed by the septum 

 formed out of the lamella? belonufing to both valves. To this genus he assigns 

 S. hispida. In Borreria the capsules are 2-partite, the septa are incomplete, being 

 indexed at the margins of the valves which are more or less open ventrally. To 

 this belongs our species ntricta. The F.B.I, also states that one mericarp remains 

 closed by the septum in S. hi»pid(i. This however is not invariable and I have met 

 fruits in which the septum stands quite free between the two open mericarps ! 

 L. much longer than broad. Corolla under "lo". Capsule (see above) 



under •!" . . . . . . . . . . . . .1. stricta. 



L. rarely three times longer than broad. Cor. over '"i". Capsule (see 



above) over •!" 2. higpida. 



1. S. stricta, L.f. Syn. Borreria stricta, Meije)'. 



A more or less erect much branched herb 6-18" high wath linear- 

 oblong or linear to oblong-lanceolate leaves "8-2" long, scabrid-hispid 

 above and on the very oblique nerves beneath, acute or acuminate, 

 sub-sessile, base hispid. Flowers few or many in dense axillary and 

 terminal clusters. Hypanthium pubescent above -Oti". Sepals 4 Avith 

 often 2 additional bristles, narroAvly linear, spinulose tipped but not 

 hispid, 'OT-OQ" long. Corolla Avhite salver-shaped or soniCAvhat 

 funnel-shaped, •09-'12" long including the ovate-triangular petals. 

 Filaments slender. Fruit sub-muricate or hispid-scabrid above, '08" 

 long, septicidal, each valve carrying part of the septum near its 

 margins but open in the centre, also loculicidal above. Seed free in 

 the partially open capsule, ellipsoid, deep broAvn, highly polished. 



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