Hedyotis.'] LXXV. EUBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 57 



cymes axillary and terminal, flowers capitate, capsule globose, tip produced 

 between the calyx-teeth. G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 527 ; Kurz in Journ. As, Soc. 

 1877, ii. 135 (exd. var. y.). Oldenlandia rubioides, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 353. 

 II. Finlaysoniana, Wall Cat. 6189. 



MALAY PENINSJJLA ; from Tenasserim, Gomez, to Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 2903, H. verticillaris), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 890). DISTRIB. Sumatra, Banca, 

 Borneo, Yunan. 



A tall climber, greenish when dry. Leaves 2-4 in., quite smooth on both sur- 

 faces, nerves slender ; stipules transverse, ciliate. Cymes pyramidal, branches tricho- 

 tomous, distant, horizontal. Heads % in. diam., 8-20-flowered, the flowers sessile and 

 radiating. Calyx small, limb cupular 4-toothed. Corolla glabrous, nearly 4-partite ; 

 segments narrow, bearded within. Capsules globose, crown loculicidally and septi- 

 cidally dehiscing, cells several-seeded. 



33. XX. mollis, Wall. Cat. 859 ; climbing, slender, leaves sessile elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate glabrous or hairy above, softly hairy beneath with strong 

 nerves, stipules short connate 2-3-cuspidate, cymes axillary and terminal, 

 flowers umbellulate shortly pedicelled, top of capsule produced between the 

 very short calyx-teeth. G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 527. 



PENANG, Wallich. 



Stem and branches terete, glabrate below, above softly laxly hairy as are the 

 leaves below and young leaves above and cjmes. Leaves pale and wrinkled when 

 dry, 2|-3 in., contracted at the base sometimes into a very short petiole. Cymes 

 sessile or shortly peduncled, sparingly branched and few-flowered ; umbellules sub- 

 globose, 5 | in. diam. Calyx-teeth short. Corolla deeply divided, lobes linear, glabrous, 

 bearded at the base, as are the bases of the filaments. Closely allied to H. capitellata, 

 as observed by "Wallich. 



34. H. scandens, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10; Fl. Ind. i. 364; climbing, 

 glabrous, branches terete, leaves sessile or shortly petioled elliptic or lanceolate 

 acuminate, nerves faint, stipules connate into a short truncate 2-ciispidate cup, 

 cymes terminal, flowers pedicelled, top of capsule produced between the short 

 calyx-teeth. DC. Prodr. iv. 422 ; Don Prodr. 134 j Wall. Cat. 839. H. poly- 

 carpa, Br. and H. volubilis, Wall, Cat. 838, 840. 



TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL Himalaya, alt. 2-6000 ft., from Nipal, Wallich, to 

 Sikkim, J. D. H. KHASIA MTS. and SILHET, alt. 0-6000 ft., and CHITTAGONG, abun- 

 dant. DISTRIB. Upper Birma. 



A much-branched climber. Leaves 3-5 in., green when dry, sometimes caudate- 

 acuminate, smooth, flat; stipules membranous, ciliolate. Cymes spreading, leafy, 

 flat- or round-topped, sometimes puberulous ; flowers subumbellate, pedicels i- in. 

 Calyx obconic ; teeth ovate, acute or obtuse. Corolla-tube short, glabrous, lobes long 

 bearded within. Capsule broadly obovoid, crown very prominent, loculicidally 

 gaping, cells many-seeded. 



35. H. viscid a, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 4; climbing? glabrous, slender, 

 leaves long-petioled ovate acuminate, nerves slender, stipules small triangular 



f land-toothed and bracts viscid, cymes axillary and terminal, peduncles and 

 ranches very slender, calyx-teeth lanceolate much longer than the capsule, the 

 tip of which is produced between them. 



TINNEVELLY ; in the beds of mountain streams, alt. 3000 ft., Beddome. 



A large handsome. shrub, branches very slender. Leaves green when dry, 3-5 in., 

 membranous, base rounded ; stipules green. Cymes on filiform peduncles equalling the 

 leaves, branches few subumbellate few-flowered ; flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube 

 obconic, lobes long. Corolla glabrous, lobes short bearded within. Beddome figures 

 the stipules as entire, and describes them and the bracts as viscid ; the bracts 

 alluded to are no doubt those at the ultimate forks of the cyme, which are stipular. 

 The ripe fruit is unknown. 



