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or ovate, strongly nerved below, stipules membranous, edged 

 with long hairs, flowers small, white, sessile, with short broad 

 tube, capsule very small, crowned by the calyx segments. Gai- 

 maril. 



Dapoli. This is not in D., but G. has it common in the rains. 

 Nearly all over India with several very distinct-looking vars. (ff.). 



8. OLDENLANDIA. 



1. 0. corymbosa (Hedyotis burmaniana, D.). A small weak 

 plant, leaves linear or lanceolate, stipules bristly, peduncles 

 often divided, bearing from one to four white flowers, corolla 

 tube short, capsule didymous, smooth. Phdpati. 



Common. Very common at Mahableshwar in October (Dr. Cooke). 

 An abundant weed throughout India, varying from a diminutive 

 straggling herb to an erect one a foot or more high (H.). 



2. 0. Heyneii (Hedyotis h. D.). Like the last, but larger and 

 stronger, branches acutely angled, flowers solitary or in pairs, 

 corolla tube long, capsule opening across the top. Kdjhuri, 

 pdrpati. 



Konkan, common. These two probably run into one another. 



0. trinervia, (Hedyotis t.~D.) procumbent, straggling, leaves ovate or 

 roundish, flowers solitary or clustered, corolla rotate, white or 

 purplish, capsule small, hairy. S. Konkan. 0. aspera (H. aspera, 1).), 

 small and rough, leaves narrow linear, stipules sheathing, bristly, 

 flowers long-tubed, pale blue, capsule roundish. Poona. Deccan and 

 Surat. (D.) *0. umbellata, stem woody, much-branched, leaves often 

 fascicled, linear, flat, peduncle stout, capsule as in No. 1. Not in D., 

 but G. calls it Indian madder, common in Konkans. *0. Senegalensis 

 (Hedyotis s. D.) a foot high, leaves linear, flowers short-pedicelled, 

 distant, few, dingy white, capsule hemispheric. Barren places in the 

 Deccan (D.). 



9. ANOTIS. 



A. foetida. (Hedyotis f. D.). Erect, smooth, leaves linear or 

 narrow lanceolate, flowers purple in threes or fives at the end of 

 long peduncles, very fetid, capsule broader than long. 



Konkan and Canara (D. and B.}. At Poona there is a species or 

 variety very common, and agreeing with this except that it is all 

 hairy and the leaves oval. At Kew I found specimens with hairy, 

 but not oval leaves. 



*A. Leschenaultii, stems straggling, hairy, leaves broad ovate, 

 stipules bristly, flowers blue, long-tubed, calyx increasing and becom- 

 ing leaflike after flowering. Belgaum (D.). *A. lancifolia, erect, 

 leaves lanceolate, flowers in heads of 5, long-tubed, capsule rough, 

 much broader than long. *A. Rheedi (H. lalifolia, D.), a large 

 species, stems square, leaves ovate hairy, flowers minute, pale 

 rose colour, capsule very small. Mai wan (D.) *A.carnosa (Hedyotis c.D.) 

 smooth thick and fleshy : Malwan (D.) ; supposed by him to be only a 



