52 LXXV. BUBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Hedyotis, 



peduncle with often 2 leafy bracts; 2. leaves sessile or subsessile ovate-lanceolate 

 obtuse or subacute, nerves very obscure. H. ovata, var. minor, Thwaites in Herb. ; 

 3. leaves petioled orbicular or broadly ovate acute or obtuse, nerves beneath very 

 strong elevated, peduncles usually filiform very short and 3-8-fld. H. ovata, var. . 

 Thwaites Enum. I.e. This last resembles a New Zealand Coprosma in habit; grows 

 in shady places ; its branches and peduncles are sometimes supra-axillary. 



13. H. Beddomei, Hook. f. ; stipules and inflorescence hairy, leaves 

 small petioled elliptic-ovate subacute, nerves strong beneath, stipules broad 

 ovate shortly united pectinate, cymes terminal subsessile capitate, calyx hispid 

 tube shortly produced together with the ovate-lanceolate teeth about equalling- 

 the capsule. H. capitata, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or, t. 191. 



TRAVANCORE ; on the Palghat hills, alt. 6500 ft., Beddome. 



Stem woody with white bark. Leaves yellow when dry, 1-1 in., contracted into 

 a short flattened petiole, margin recurved when dry; stipules in., acute. Cymes 

 axillary and terminal, involucrate. Corolla-tube and lobes outside hispid, lobes 

 inside glabrous except at the woolly mouth. Capsules sessile, cells about 4-seeded. 



14. H. buxifolia, Bedd. Ic. PI Ind. Or. t. 1 ; glabrous, leaves small 

 short-petioled ovate or ovate-cordate acute nerveless margins recurved, stipules 

 connate at the base broad pectinate ciliate, cymes terminal and axillary 3- 

 flowered, calyx-tube produced, teeth lanceolate. 



TRAVANCORE ; on the higher ranges of the Anamallay Mts., Beddome. 



A large shrub, branches terete. Leaves \-^ by \ in., glabrous, shining, very 

 coriaceous ; stipules with a line of hairs down the centre. Peduncles in. Flowers 

 subsessile; bracts filiform, ciliate. Corolla-lobes within and mouth villous. Seeds 

 numerous. Description from Beddome. 



* Erect shrubs; cymes terminal, capitate, or panicled. Stipules large, form- 

 ing loose sheaths, which often become white with age. 



15. H. quinquenervia, Thwaites Enum. 141 ; nearly glabrous, leaves 

 very coriaceous sessile orbicular very convex with margins and tips especially 

 strongly recurved, very strongly 5-nerved from the base, stipular sheath cupular 

 ciliate, cymes terminal sessile, calyx-tube produced and large ovate teeth to- 

 gether equalling the capsule. Bedd, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 8. 



CEYLON ; Central province, alt. 7-8000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Stem woody, di-trichotomously branched ; branches white below, above dark (when 

 dry), with 2 lines of pubescence. Leaves dark or yellow-brown when dry, \ in. diam., 

 sometimes obovate-orbicular, abruptly contracted at the base ; nerves deeply sunk 

 above, beneath very thick ; stipular sheath in. long, loose. Corolla-tube glabrous,, 

 lobes hispid at the tip, glabrous within, except at the mouth. Capsule glabrous, cells 

 4-seeded. 



16. H. Lessertiana, Am. Pugill. PL Ind. Or. 21 ; glabrous or nearly 

 so, leaves petioled ovate elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate very coriaceous, nerves 

 very strong, stipular sheath ciliate, cymes terminal capitate and subunibelled,. 

 calyx-tube more or less produced, teeth and limb together much shorter than 

 the capsule. Thwaites Enum. 141 ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 31. C. flavescens, 

 Thivaites I. c. 141 and 419. 



CEYLON ; Central province, alt, 3000 to 8000 ft., abundant. 



A shrub with stout branches and leaves very variable in size, sometimes the 

 largest of the genus, yellowish or brownish-green when dry ; young shoots sometimes 

 sparsely puberulous. Leaves 3-8 by 1-3 in., narrowed into a slender or stout petiole 

 -! in., almost plaited (rarely flat with slender nerves), the nerves being deeply 

 sunk in the upper siirface and highly raised on the under, where they are sometimes 

 hairy, margins flat or recurved rarely ciliolate ; stipular sheath |-lf in. long, some- 



