60 LXX. rubiacej: (hiern). [Oldenlandia. 



in Wall. List n. 867 ; Wight and Am. Prodr. p. 416 ; H. dichotoma, A. 

 Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 361 ; H. (Kohantia) micrantha, Hochst. in Hb. 

 Schimp. Abyss. (1854) ed. Hohenack. n. 2263 ; ? 0. linearis, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. p. 425. 



Upper Crulnea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! ; Accra, G. Bon ! ; ? Senegambia, 

 Perrottet and Lepricur ; Niger, Barter I 



Wile Ijand. Karague, Sjpeke and Grant! 447; Djurland, Schweinfurth ! ; 

 Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



Occurs also in India and Natal, and apparently also in Madagascar. 



18. O. parvlflora, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 84; 

 excl. syn. (1878). Much branched nearly glabrous herb, shortly decum- 

 bent at base, with long tapering vertical root. Lower branches sub- 

 terete, upper subangular. Leaves narrowly linear, acute, rather thick, 

 scabrous on the margins, sessile, ^1^ in. long ; stipules 2-4-setose. 

 Flowers tetramerous, ^ in. long, on short pedicels as long as the calyx 

 or shorter, 2-9 together, subfasciculate in small umbellate corymbs 

 arranged in an ample somewhat leafy corymbose cyme. Calyx half the 

 length of the flower; teeth lanceolate-subulate. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 half cleft ; throat somewhat hairy inside ; tube slightly exceeding the 

 calyx ; lobes oblong-ovate, subobtuse. Anthers included. Style ex- 

 serted. Capsule subglobose, truncate, crowned by the calyx-teeth, yV in. 

 diam., subdidymous, at length dehiscing loculicidally at the top. Seeds 

 angular. — Kuhautia farviflora, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 403 

 (1849), jpart. — Hedyotis, sp. n. 3, T. Thorns, in Speke, Joum., App. 

 p. 636. 



Upper Guinea. Niger, Tk. Vogcl! 



WHe :Lancl. A common weed about the fields of Kazeh, at alt. 4000 ft. S. lat. 

 6°, E. long. 33°, Speke and Grant! 



19. O. fiosculosa, Hiern. A profusely branched nearly glabrous 

 annual, 6-12 in. high. Leaves linear-oval, narrowed at both ends, 

 mostly apiculate, subsessile, glabrous, paler beneath, spreading, mar- 

 gins revolute ; |-1^ by ^V~4 i^'*> stipules subulate or paucisetose. Flowers 

 about y^^ in. long, tetramerous, on pedicels about equalling- the calyx, 

 several together in little clusters on branched spicate racemes, forming 

 an ample terminal cyme. Calyx glabrous, subhemispherical, with short 

 narrowly lanceolate teeth. Corolla subcampanufete somew:hat exceed- 

 ing the calyx-teeth ; throat glabrous. Capsule subglobose, dehiscing 

 loculicidally at the apex, about ^ in. diam. Seeds angular. 



DCozamb. Dlstr. Zanzibar Island, Hildebrandt ! 



20. O. monantlios, Hiern. Rootstock woody. Stems csespitose, 

 slender, prostrate, glabrous or nearly so, short or elongated. Leaves 

 oval, obtuse or subacute, somewhat narrowed at the base, very shortly 

 petiolate, with a few scattered short inconspicuous hairs especially on 

 the margin, 1 -nerved and rather paler below ; -^-^ by \q - \ in. ; stipules 

 shortly sheathing 3-1-setose or truncate. Flowers tetramerous, white, 

 :J— I in. long, solitary, axillary, on peduncles froin half to the whole of 

 the length of the leaves. Calyx ^— J in. long ; lobes lanceolate, obtuse. 



