Heclyoiis.'] LXXV. EUBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 61 



1-ner^ed, margins recurved, stipules with long; cilia, flowers 2-6 in axillary 

 clusters, calyx-teeth triangular about equalling the hispid ovoid capsule. Roxb* 

 Fl. Ind. t. 364 ; Wall. Cat. 845. Scleromitrion hispidum, Korth. ; Miq. Fl. IncL 

 Bat'ii. 185. Oldenlandia hispida, Benth. Fl Hongk. 150. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Chamba and Kangra, C. B. Clarke, to SIKKIM and the- 

 KHASIA MTS., ASSAM, CACHAR, CHITTAGONG, and the MALAYAN PENINSULA from 

 Tenasserim to Malacca. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, S. China. 



Annual ; branches 6-18 in., terete below, 4-angled above. Leaves 1^-2^ in., very 

 variable in width, rough and rigid. Capsule similar to that of H. teneltifl&ra, but 



47. H. nitida, W. 8f A. Prodr. 412 ; branches diffuse elongate acutely 

 4-angled, leaves sessile elliptic- or linear-lanceolate acute scaberulous or smooth 

 above smooth beneath 1 -nerved, margins recurved, stipules with long cilia> 

 flowers 1 or few axillary sessile, calyx-teeth triangular erect equalling the- 

 glabrous capsule. H. Neesiana, Arn. Pugill. 23. H. glabella, Br. in Wall. Cat^ 

 886; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind, Or. t. 36. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, from Dharwar southwards to Travancore and CEYLON ? 

 TENASSERIM, Kivrz. 



A slender annual, similar in habit to H. hispida, but with leaves smooth or 

 sparingly scabrid towards the margins above only, shining and green, and glabrous 

 capsules. I have seen no Tenasserim specimens, and it is possible that Kurz's plant 

 is H."**spida, of which this may be a smooth variety. 



*** Fruit crmtaceous, indehiscent; cymes axillary (and terminal in H. scabra), 

 sessile, capitate or few-fld. ; leaves flat, with or without lateral nerves ; stipules 

 triangular, entire or gland-serrate orfrmbriate, not ^yj^V corolla very short. 



48. If. inamcena, Thw. Enum. l&inparti>Ann.^. glabrous, erect, 

 3-chotornously branched, branches subterete, leavnotis capitata/rate-lanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate nerves arching faint, stip low, triangular 

 glandular-pubescent caducous, cymes axillary veryatihousie to P***d subsessile, 

 calyx-limb cup-shaped teeth broad shorter than the su uit. 



CEYLON ; Adam's Peak, Thwaites. ' s da: 



A tall slender shrub, with long slender erecto-patent branches, obscurely 4-angled 

 above, black when dry. Leaves dark brownish-green when dry, 3-5 by |-l in., 

 leathery, smooth, with a distinct midrib and faint-arching nerves ; stipules short. 

 Flowers 3-5. ;vlnr>st sessile, small. g4abrous. Calyx-tube hemispheric. Eipe fruit 

 not KM 'ii. Very like^T. f#rJ-&/n<ftJ^'with which it has been mixed in Herbaria. 



H. congests , Wall. Cat. 844; robust, glabrous, branches 



'1 Uj shortly petioled elliptic or ovate-lanceolate 



t'e leathery, nerves arching faint, stipules elongate 



ovatt tir lacerate point, flowers in crowded axillary 



head- ^rian^ular obtuse shorter than the ovoid thick 



smooth fr iii. 525. H. argentea, W all. Cat.. 858. 



MALAYAN PENINSULA from Tenasserim to Malacca, Wallich, &c. ; PENANG, Maingay^ 

 DISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



A stout shrub with brachiate branches. Leaves pale when dry, 3-5 by 1-2 in.> 

 quite glabrous and smooth on both surfaces ; stipules sometimes in., coriaceous, 

 segments sometimes branched. Flowei'S clustered, small. Calyx-tube hemispheric, 

 Fruit subdrupaceous, white. 



50. H. prostrata, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 160; glabrous, 



"branches long flexuous prostrate or scandent ? obtusely 4-angled, leaves petioled 



f elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, nerves distinct, stipules elongate coriaceous 



toothed or subpectinate, cymes axillary small subsessile few-flowered, calyx- 



