Hedytttis ] *wv. UUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 5 



linaate, ' 'at. 6108, not of Roxb. H. costata, Br. in Wall. Cat. 849 ^ 



(r. Dw v/rfjiii. 526. II. multicaulis, ScJddl. PL Hohen. No. 845. H. 



venosa, in Xed. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 160. Metabolus venosus, Bl. ; DC. 



Spermacoce hispida, Miq. PL Hohen. No. 44. PS. lineata,. 

 Roxb. Fl. Iml. ii. ?><&. Rheede Hort. Malab. x. t. 32. 



Throughout eastern Bengal from NIPAL, "SiKKiM, and the KHASIA Mts. to ASSAM,. 

 CHITTAGONG, MUNEPOOR, BIRMA, and southward to MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 

 891, H. vestita). WKSTERN PENINSULA, from CANARA, southwards. CEYLON, abun- 

 dant. DISTKIB. Yunan, Malay Archipelago, S. China, Philippines, Australia. 



BrancheH&.l8 in., terete. Leaves usually pale green when dry, 1-3 in.; stipules 

 as in the two previous species. Cyn tcs always sessile. Calyx-teeth variable. There 

 are several very difctinct looking varieties, but I am unable to define them clearly 

 enough for diagnosis. Wallich's H. lineata, from the Deccan (No. 6198), is almost 

 glabrous throughout, as are son Khasian specimens. The stems appear to be erect 

 and woody in Wallich's H. nervosa (No. 857), and the calyx-teeth are longer in 

 specimens gathered by Thomson and myself in the Khasia at 4-6000 ft., and at 

 Chittagong and Muneypoor by C. 11 Clarke. Some Ceylon specimens have leaves 

 with petiole ^ in., and long caudate points, as in Beddome's figure. 



40. H. lineata, Roxb. Ilort. JBeny. 10; Fl. Ind. i. 365; annual, pubes- 

 cent, suberect or diffuse, leaves sessile ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate acute or 

 acuminate, stipules ipembranous villous with one or more long cilia, cymes 

 axillary hispid shortly peduncled, branches few-fld., calyx-teeth much longer 

 than the hispid indehiscent pedicelled fruit. DC. Prodr. iv. 420; Don Prodr. 

 134. H. ulmifolia, Wall, in Roxb. FL Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 173 ; Cat. 

 862; DC. Prodr. iv. 421. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA of NLPAL and SIKKIM, alt. 1-2000 ft. EASTERN BENGAL,. 

 SILHET, CHITTAGONG, and TENASSERIM. 



Very similar to H. Auricularia, but more finely ptibescent, with pedicelled branched 

 cymes ^-| in. long, and long calyx-teeth. I reluctantly postpone Wallich's well- 

 known name of H. ulmifolia for Eoxburgh's earlier one of H. lineata, though there is 

 no convincing evidence of this being Eoxburgh's plant ; the name has been misapplied 

 to H. Auricularia by Wallich. 



41. H. g-labra, Br. in Wall. Cat. 848; glabrous, diffuse, stem elongate, 

 leaves subsessile elongate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate membranous, stipules 

 short with long simple or branched cilia, cymes on filiform axillary peduncles 

 puberulous small loosely branched spreading, calyx-teeth much shorter than the- 

 glabrous indehiscent globose pedicelled fruit. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 183. Sper- 

 macoce glabra, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 368. Knoxia glabra, DC. Prodr. iv. 569. 



SILHET, De Silva. CACHAR, J. D. H. $ T. T., &c. BIRMA, Griffith. PENANG, 

 Wallich, Maingay. 



Stems 2-3 ft., elender, smooth, terete, fistular; nodes distant. Leaves 3-5 by 

 -l|- in., point often almost filiform, nerves slender ; stipules with very slender 

 spinous processes sometimes ^ in. long and much branched. Peduncles |-|- in., bracts 

 small. Flowers minute, as are the fruits. 

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42. H. paradoxa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, ii. 135; glabrous, 

 branches obtusely 4-angled robust, leaves sessile long linear or linear-lanceolate- 

 acute, nerves beneath very faint, stipules membranous with ciliate bristles, 

 cymes capitate axillary globose very dense-flowered, calyx-teeth subulate hispid 

 longer than the globose pedicelled fruit. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLAND ; Escape Bay, Kurz. 



Apparently a large species ; branches smooth, thick, almost terete. Leaves 4-ft 

 by |-1 in., narrowed at both ends, flat, nerves very oblique ; stipular bristles longer- 



