62 LXXV. RUBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Hedyotis. 



' teeth triangular. H. subcarnosa, Wall. Cat. 860. Metabolus prostratus, SI. ; 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 435. 



TENASSERIM ; Chappedong Hills, Wallich, Heifer. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 

 Stem flexuous, rooting below, sending out long 'slender flexuous branches with 

 ilistant internodes. Leaves green when dry, 3-4 by |-l in., quite smooth, rather 

 membranous, narrowed into a slender petiole |-|- in. ; stipules coriaceous, very 

 variable in length, . with glandular teeth, erect or recurved. Cymes very small, 

 flowers not seen. Fruit small, smooth, cells about 6-seeded. This, though referred 

 in Miquel's Flora to Diplophragma, is certainly a Euhedyotis. 



51. K. scabra, Wall. Cat. 880 ; a low woody' herb, branches terete 

 young pubescent, leaves subsessile lanceolate acuminate scaberulous or glabrous, 

 uppermost involucriform, nerves faint, stipules small triangular, cymes ter- 

 minal (and axillary ?) capitate sessile, calyx- teeth triangular-subulate shorter 

 than the small globose glabrous fruit. 



MARTABAN and TENASSERIM ; Moulmein, Wallich ; Mergui, Griffith, &c. 



Very much branched, branches woody, whitish, the younger and leaves dark- 

 brown when dry. Leaves 1-2 in., the upper stellately spreading round the cymes, 

 base very acute, very obscurely scabrid; stipules pubescent, teeth few glandular. 

 Cymes globose, in. diatn. ; flowers very shortly pedicelled. Corolla very small, 

 tube and lobes short. Fruit crustaceous, many-seeded, apparently indehiscent, but 

 there is a trace of a loculicidal groove on the crown between the calyx-teeth. Very 

 near a N. Celebes species, which has longer calyx-lobes. 



IV. Xnvolucrella. Fruit membranous, 2-3-celled, very many 

 seeded, indehiscent, top not protruded between the calyx-teeth. A herb with 

 a terminal capitate ses cyme, which is sunk amongst the bases of the involu- 

 criform uppermost 3a, TJT.gtipules membranous with many very long subequal 

 stift' recurveji'l^or fascic leu 



52. ^^axilkry and iV^teSSG; decumbent, branches 4-angled pubes- 

 cent, leav-efeewkj^ f ^ e (y iJ -fcnea-r-oblong acute coriaceous flat, nerves faint, 

 stipular briatletf'l ., t (^pJhan the sheath, calyx-teeth broadly lanceolate many 

 times longer than , ^,/olong fruit. II. mergueusis, Hook. f. in Gen. PI. ii. 57. 



TENASSERIM; Tavoy, Gomez; Amherst, Wallich', Mergui, Griffith. ANDAMAN 

 Islands, Kurz. __ ^^-. 



A stout-branched low herb, root woody. Leaves 2-3 by ^-i in., suddenly narrowed 

 at the base, but hardly petioled, puberulous on the faint "nerves beneath; stipules 

 connate, bristles ^ in. long. Cymes quite hidden: floM-ers uixed with long stipular 

 bracteoles, rarely cymes are formed in the lower axils Vr Fnit often 3-<eelled, bursting 

 irregularly, walls full of raphides. Seeds angular,' 1 ^ 



SECT. V. Anotidopsis. Fruit member: . . >K < ', 

 celled, indehiscent or obscurely dehiscing loculicida\ly befivoen Vho calyx-teeth, 

 crown not protruded between the calyx-teeth. H'evVw or small * -limbs, with 

 axillary or terminal sessile or peduncled cymes ; stipules membranous, aisuully 

 bristly. Habit of Anotis. 



53. K. cyanescens, Thwaites Enuni. 143; hairy, stems decumbent 

 rooting acutely 4-angled, leaves petioled elliptic-ovate acute membranous nerves 

 distinct, stipules short bristly, cymes axillary dense many-flowered, flowers pedi- 

 celled, calyx-teeth lanceolate ciliate many times longer than the membranous 

 many-seeded fruit. 



CEYLON; Ambagowa district, Thwaites. 



An undershrub, often bluish-purple (Thwaites), branches glabrous or hair}'. 

 Leaves 1-3 by -l| in., with short scattered hairs above, more pubescent beneath, 

 flat ; nerves 5-6 pair, arched ; petiole slender, ^-| in. ; stipules short, membranous, 



