Hedyotis.'] LXXV. EUBIACEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 53 



times 1 in. diam. Cymes glabrous or sparsely hairy, more or less umbellate, usually 

 dense- flowered and rounded, sometimes quite capitate. Corolla-tube variable in length, 

 lobes and throat usually densely woolly. Capsule ellipsoid, cells about 4-seeded. In 

 a form (H. marginata, Thw. mss., N. 3935), from Kotteyagalla, alt. 5000 ft., the 

 leaves are ciliolate, the flowers in dense heads, the calyx-teeth longer, lanceolate, and 

 the corolla-lobes glabrous except at the base. 



17. H. Gardner!, Thwaites Enum. 142 : glabrous, leaves sessile recurved 

 lanceolate acuminate, nerves very indistinct, stipular sheath very broad, panicle 

 erect terminal elongate pyramidal, calyx-tube produced aud together with the 

 lanceolate teeth equalling the capsule. 



CEYLON ; Adam's Peak, Gardner. 



I have seen but one specimen of this remarkable species, which has much the 

 habit of a South Brazilian Eryngium ; it consists of a stout cylindric stem 6 in. long, 

 clothed with somewhat corky white remains of the stipules, and bears several sub- 

 terminal crowded rosettes, about 6 in. diam. of recurved yellowish when dry leaves, 

 and a very stout erect branched panicle, 8 in. high by 4 broad, with distant opposite 

 3-chotomously divided flowering branches. The panicle is evidently a last year's one, 

 and is white with age. Leaves 3-3^ by ^ in., complicate, very coriaceous, their bases 

 concealed by the remains of the large stipules. Capsules sessile, turbinate, in. 



*** Herbs, all] annual, with terminal panic-led or subumbetted cymes, small 

 jftowers, and ylobose capsules ; stipules very small. 



18. H. Wallichii, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, ii. 136; a slender 

 sparingly hairy or hispid annual, leaves subsessile ovate or elliptic acute, stipules 

 subulate ciliate, cymes excessively 3-chotomously branched, pedicels long slender, 

 flowers minute, capsule globose with minute calyx-teeth. H. galioides, Wall. 

 Cat. 866. 



TENASSERIM, Gomez, &c. ; NICOBAR Islands, Kurz. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Stem trichotomously branched from the base ; branches acutely 4-angled, all 

 floriferous. Leaves ^Hr in., in remote pairs, ciliate; nerves few, slender. Pedicels 

 spreading, often 2-3-nate. Flowers about ^ in. long. Capsides ^ in. diam., cells 

 about 6 -seeded. Seeds microscopic, angled, smooth. Possibly an Oldenlandia, but 

 the capsules dehisce septicidally to the base. 



19. XX. eleg-ans, Watt. Cat. 887; quite glabrous, very slender, leaves 

 subsessile ovate-lanceolate long acuminate, nerves very obscure, stipules small 

 very broad acute or cuspidate, flowers sessile on the branches of terminal and 

 axillary subumbellate cymes, calyx-teeth obtuse. 



TENASSERIM, Gomez, Heifer. 



Probably perennial, bright green when dry ; stem very long and slender, terete, 

 simple or sparingly branched. Leaves in distant pairs, 2-4| by 1-lf in., narrowed 

 into short petioles, margins flat. Cymes long-peduncled umbellately or 2-3-choto- 

 mously branched from above two linear or oblong bracts ; branches 1-3 in. long, 

 spreading or divaricate, rather stout. Flowers very shortly pedicelled, in. long. 

 Capsules ~ in. diam., crowned with the triangular obtuse calyx-teeth ; cells about 

 4-seeded. This resembles a species of Hance, No. 11,230, which has broader less 

 acuminate leaves and pedicelled flowers ; also very near the Chinese H. acutangida . 

 which has acutely angled stem and sessile leaves. 



20. H. ZZelferi, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves subsessile ovate obtuse 

 or subacute nerveless margin recurved, stipules small broad, cymes small ter- 

 minal shortly peduncled, branches short, capsules subsessile, calyx-teeth very 

 short obtuse. 



TENASSERIM or the ANDAMAN Islands, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 2909). 



A small species, black in drying; branches stiff, 4-angled. Leaves sometimes 



