58 LXXV. RUBIACE.-E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Hedyotis. 



36. K. fulva, Hook. f. ; perennial, erect, villous, leaves sessile narrow 

 lanceolate acuminate plaited, nerves 2 pair, stipules membranous with long 

 cilia, cymes glabrous small axillary shortly peduncled, calyx glabrous teeth 

 subulate, tip of capsule produced between them. 



KHASIA Mrs. ; on dry hills near Nurtiung, alt. 4-5000 ft, J. D. H. 4- T. T. 



Rootstock woody, sending up strict terete stems a foot high,, which and the leaves- 

 are bright yellow when dry. Leaves 1-1^ in., coriaceous. Cymes on short peduncles 

 in., flowers subcapitate. This resembles H. villosa in many respects, but differs in 

 the strict habit, sessile leaves, with only two pairs of nerves and quite glabrous- 

 inflorescence. 



37. K. Griffith!!, Hook. /. ; woody, branches erect acutely 4-angled 

 puberulous, leaves sessile lanceolate acuminate coriaceous scaberulous nerveless, 

 stipules short cuspidate coriaceous, heads terminal sessile involucrate, calyx- 

 teeth subulate much shorter than the globose glabrous pedicelled capsule which 

 has a large protruded top. 



BHOTAN; in woods, alt. 4200 ft., Griffith (Bootan Journal, n. 318). 



An erect shrub, 2 ft. high, with strict stem and branches, nodes distant. Leaves 

 l-a--2 in., deflexed, with recurved margins in the fruiting state of the plant, yellowish 

 when dry. Heads of fruit globose, |- in. diam., involucrate by the large upper leaves. 

 Capsule smooth, crustaceous, with very many small angular seeds. A very distinct 

 species, seen in fruit only, the tip of which often exceeds the calyx-teeth; it 

 resembles in habit H. uncinella, W. & A. 



SECT. III. Euhedyotis. Fruit indehiscent or tardily dehiscent, or the 

 crown only dehiscing loculicidally. Herbs, diffuse or subscandent, with usually 

 axillary dense-fid, cymes. 



* Fruit hard, minute, indehiscent ; cells few-seeded. Cymes almost all axil- 

 lary. Leaves usually plaited longitudinally with very strong nerves, rarely flat 

 with slender newes, never only l-nerved (nerves faint in II. paradoxa) ; stipules 

 ciliate. 



38. H. vestita, Br. in Wall. Cat. 847 ; diffuse, villous, leaves petioled 

 elliptic-lanceolate acuminate plaited, nerves 5-7 pair, stipules membranous 

 with long cilia, cymes villous small axillary shortly peduncled, fruit minute 

 globose hairy indehiscent, calyx-teeth subulate. G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 526. 

 H. costata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 135, not of Wallich. II. ccerulea, 

 Korth. in Ned. Kmidkund. Arch. ii. 160. H. capituliflora, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 ii. 183. Metabolus cceruleus, Blume Bijd. 992; DC. Prodr. iv. 435. M. 

 lineatus, Bart 1. in DC. I. c. Spermacoce costata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10: FL 

 Ind. i. 370. 



Subtropical SIKKIM and the KHASIA MTS., alt. 1-5000 ft. ASSAM, CACHAR, the 

 MALAY PENINSULA, and P!NANG, common. DISTBIB. Malay and Philippine Islands. 



A stout herb, 1-2 ft. long, branches terete. Leaves 2-4 in., greenish when dry ; 

 stipules villous, with 1-3 subulate processes. Cymes inconspicuous, peduncle or- 

 4~ in., simple or branched ; flowers very small, crowded in heads -5 in. diam.,. 

 lilac or pink. Capsules ~ in. 



39. XI. Auricularia, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. iv. 420 j annual, suberect or 

 diffuse, branches glabrous or hirsute especially at the nodes, leaves sessile sub- 

 sessile or petioled ovate or lanceolate acuminate smooth or scabrid above often 

 pubescent beneath, stipules membranous hairy with long cilia, cymes axillary 

 sessile small very dense-flowered, flowers subsessile, calyx-teeth small shorter 

 than the indehiscent glabrous or hispid fruit. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 365 ; ed. Carey $ 

 Wall i. 370, excl. remarks-, W. $ A. Prodr. 412 ; Bedd Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 27. 

 H. nervosa, Wall. Cat. 857 (? of Lamb.). II. procumbens, Wall. Cat. 861 . IL 



