56 LXXV. RTJBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Hedyotis. 



29. XX. verticillaris, W. $ A. Prodr. 409 ; quite glabrous, stem or 

 very short, leaves rosulate sessile linear-lanceolate acuminate strongly nerved, 

 stipules very long narrow, heads small on axillary 3-chotomously forked bracteate 

 branches, calyx- teeth ovate-lanceolate much longer than the tube. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1029 ; Wall. Cat. 6188. H. plantaginifolia, Am. Pugill. PL 2nd. Or. 22. 



NILGHERRY Mts., alt. 7000 ft., Wight, &c. CEYLON ; in the central province, alt. 

 7-8000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Stem as thick as the forefinger, usually inclined and rooting, rarely 1 in. Leaves 

 yellow when dry, very numerous, spreading flat on the ground, 3-15 by 1-2 in., 

 straight, longitudinally channelled above and ribbed beneath by the parallel nerves ; 

 stipules of the radical leaves hidden, of the branches -f in., very slender, gland- 

 toothed entire or divided. Branches (or peduncle) horizontal or ascending rather 

 longer than the leaves, naked below, trichotomously forked above with linear bracts 

 at the forks, and below the head. Heads \-% in. diam. Corolla-tube short, lobes 

 linear, mouth woolly. Capsule (not seen) small, cells many-seeded (in Wight's figure). 



30. XX. uncinella, Hook. $ Am. Sot. Seech. Voy. 192 ; erect, glabrous, 

 stem 4-winged, internodes long, leaves sessile or petioled ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate, nerves distinct, stipules small broad pubescent gland- 

 serrate or pectinate, heads terminal and axillary globose bracteate, calyx-teeth 

 ovate-lanceolate recurved equalling the glabrous capsule. Senth. Fl. Hongkong, 

 149. H. borreroides, Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 171. II. cephalophora, 

 Sr. in Wall. Cat. 842. 



KHASIA and JYNTEA Mts. ; alt, 4-5000 ft., Wallich, $c. DISTRIB. China. 



Hoot perennial. Stem usually simple and erect, stout. Leaves 1^-3 by -H i n -> 

 smooth or slightly rough above; stipules pubescent, cuspidate, produced into a long 

 point. Heads ^-f in. Calyx-lobes glabrous or ciliate. Corolla-tube short, glabrous, 

 lobes linear. Capsule broadly ovoid, cells about 6-seeded. I follow Bentham in 

 regarding the Khasian plant as a form of the Chinese, which differs in the narrower 

 often petioled leaves and more pectinate stipules. 



SECT. II. Dimetia. Capsule septicidally splitting into two several-seeded 

 cocci, the top raised and protruding between the calyx-teeth j cocci dehiscing 

 ventrally. Shrubs usually climbing. 



31. H. LawsoniEe, W. $ A. Prodr. 407 (not of Wight Ic. t. 1026); 

 erect, glabrous, branches terete, leaves petioled elliptic-ovate or -lanceolate 

 acute or obtuse, stipules broadly ovate entire, peduncles axillary slender, 

 flowers pedicelled, calyx-teeth very short, top of capsule produced between 

 them. 



CEYLON ; central province, common between 5-8000 ft. 



An erect shrub, variable in habit, greenish when dry. Leaves 1-3 in., narrowed 

 into the petiole, pale beneath. Peduncles equalling or shorter than the leaves. 

 Flowers few, g- in. long. Calyx-tube obconic, limb dilated with 5 small teeth. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, glabrous, mouth woolly. Capsule urceolate, cells about 4-seeded. 

 Gardner has collected at Neuera Ellia an abnormal state with obovate convex leaves 

 with revolute margins. Wight's figure of Lawsonia represents the corolla as 5-fid 

 and the fruit as pubescent, and of a totally different shape from this, with different 

 placentation. It is probably a composite plate, in part of an Ophiorhiza. De Can- 

 dolle's Wendlandia Lawsoniee, founded on Lawsonia purpurea, Lamb., which again is 

 founded on the "Pontaletsje" of Bheede (Hort. Mai. iv. t. 57), is a totally different 

 and a Cochin plant, supposed by Wight and Arnott to be identical with this Ceylon 

 one, but differing in the square stems and terminal cymes, and is H. fruticosa. 



32. H. cap it ell at a, Wall. Cat. 837 (excl. H. fruticosa, Hb. Rottler}; 

 glabrous, climbing, branches round, leaves shortly petioled ovate- or elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate, nerves distinct, stipules very short cuspidate or toothed, 



