Hedyotis.] LXXV. RUBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 63 



with short bristles. Cymes compound, branches dense. Flowers pedicelled, bluish, 

 mixed with linear ciliate bracteoles. Corolla-tube and short lobes hairy, moxith not 

 bearded or villous. Fruit elongate obconic, apparently indehiscent, very mem- 

 branous. 



54. H. monocephala, Br. in Wall. Cat. 846 (corrected from macro- 

 cephala) ; glabrous or puberulous, flaccid, branched, decumbent, leaves sub- 

 sessile elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, nerves obscure, stipules slender recurved 

 toothed or pectinate, cymes terminal capitate sessile glabrous, calyx-teeth 

 lanceolate longer than the young fruit. 



SILHET, Wallich. ASSAM, Hamilton, Masters ; UPPER ASSAM, Griffith. 



A slender straggling species, dark brown when dry ; branches 4-angled, grooved, 

 the ridges puberulous. Leaves l-l in., base very acute, quite glabrous on both 

 surfaces ; stipules variable, sometimes of one long recurved very slender simple or 

 out bristle, at others with 2 or more long bristles. Cymes -i in. diam., terminal or 

 rarely on short axillary branches with iisually small leaves at their base. Flowers 

 quite glabrous, except the corolla-lobes within, larger than in H. scabra, but still 

 small. Ripe fruit not seen. An allied plant from Tenasserim or the Andamans 

 (Heifer, Kew Distrib. 2884) is much stouter, with caudate-acuminate leaves. 

 Specimens from Griffith in Herb. Bentham are marked as from Darjeeling, but are 

 probably from Assam. The species was originally found by Hamilton at Birna- 

 sherva in 1808 (probably in Assam). 



55. H. stipulata, Br. in Watt. Cat. 6195 and 863 a ; stems lax diffuse 

 rooting below glabrous or puberulous, leaves ovate or lanceolate acute mem- 

 branous, nerves slender, stipules with long bristles, cymes capitate sessile or 

 peduncled axillary or terminal glabrous, calyx-teeth lanceolate recurved longer 

 than the membranous broadly globose fruit. II. Lindleyana, Hook. mss. in 

 W. 4" A. Prodr. 409. Oldenlandia japonica, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 

 194. O. hirsuta, Linn.jil. ; DC. Prodr. 127. ? Anotis capitata, Korth. in Ned. 

 Kruidk. Archiv. ii. 151. V***" 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 3-8000 ft., from Dalhousie to BHOTAN, common. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft. DISTHIB. Java, Japan. 



Branches slender, decumbent, 1-2 ft., terete and leaves dark brown when dry. 

 Leaves ^-2 in., variable in width, glabrous or with a few soft scattered hairs above 

 and on the nerves beneath, base acute or rounded ; petiole - ~ in. ; stipules cut into 

 filiform bristles nearly to the base. Cymes \-^ , in. diam. Flowers quite glabrous, 

 pedicelled. Fruit membranous, indehiscent or with a loculicidal fissure on the crown 

 between the calyx-teeth. S?eds many, small, angular arid pitted. Very similar to 

 Anotis wgrata. 



56. K. Thomson!, Hook. f. ; annual, short, suberect, much branched 

 from the base, leaves fascicled* sessile narrow-linear acute margins recurved, 

 stipules forming a short sheath with the petioles bristly, cymes dense in all the 

 axils and terminal,, calyx-teeth lanceolate recurved longer than the broadly 

 obconic membranous fruit. 



EAST BENGAL; banks of the Megna ana Mahanadde, J. D. H. $ T. T. 



Stem very short with fibrous roots, benches suberect 4-angled leafy. Leaves - 1 

 by ^ in., spreading* and recurved, riY'nutely rough above, midrib strong beneath, 

 rather dilated at the base and united with the stipules into a short membranous 

 sheath, proliferous in the axils ; nerves 0. Flowers pedicelled. Corolla very minute, 

 glabrous, tube and lobes short. Fruit apparently quite indehiscent, but there is a 

 loculicidal furrow "between the calyx-teeth, pericarp with raphides (as in H. connata). 

 Seeds very numerous, small, angular, pitted, pale. A very remarkable little plant, 

 3-6 in. high, blackish when dry, not found by any previous collector, with the habit 

 of an Oldenlandia, but the fruit appears quite indehisceut and the calyx is altogether 

 that of Hedyotis and approaches H. pinifolia. 



