68 LXXV. RUBIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Oldenlavdia. 



12. O. aspera, DC. Prodr. iv. 428 ; stems stout and branches scabrid, 

 leaves in fascicled whorls erect narrow-linear acute margins revolute, stipules 

 with median bristles, capsules solitary or 2-3-nate subsessile on the slender 

 erect branches of the cymes rough globose didymous, calyx-teeth subulate 

 shorter than the corolla-tube. Hedyotis aspera, Hei/ne in Roth Nov. Sp. 94 ,-. 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 417 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 115. II. ? elongata, Br. in 

 Wall. Cat. 865 : G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 527. 



THE PUNJAB, Aitchison. KOHILKUND, and southwards to MYSORE, Bottler, &c. 

 DISTBIB. Tropical Africa. 



A stout annual herb, 6-8 in. high, trichotomously branched. Leaves 2-3 in., 

 glabrous above, coriaceous. Cymes branched in fruit, 16 in. long ; flowers small, 

 pale blue, in. long, corolla about ^ in. diam. Capsules in. diam. 



13. O. Tseneg-alensis, Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afric. iii. 56; glabrous 

 or minutely scaberulous, stem extremely slender erect simple, leaves not fascicled 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate flat or with recurved margins, stipules with lateral 

 bristles, cymes in a very loose open terminal panicle with divaricate very long 

 capillary peduncles and pedicels, calyx-teeth subulate much shorter than the 

 slender corolla-tube, corolla-lobes acuminate, capsules hemispheric. Kohautia 

 senegalensis, Endl. Atakt. t. 23. 



CHOTA NAGPORE ; Hazaribagh, alt. 2200 ft., C. B. Clarke. DISTRIB. ? W. Tropical 

 Africa. 



Annual, 8-16 in. high; stem wiry, terminating in a wide spreading very thin 

 very few-flowered pyramidal paniculate cyme, with capillary pedicels 1-2 in. long. 

 Flowws very small. Capsules ^ in. diam., the minute subulate teeth very distant. 

 Easily confounded with 0. dichotoma, but distinguished by the divaricate cyme- 

 branches, corolla, and larger capsules. I refer it with hesitation to the Senegal plaut, 

 which has an equally open pyramidal cyme and long-pedicelled flowers, and of which 

 there is a variety with sessile or short pedicelled flowers. The corolla is much shorter 

 in the Indian plant, but the specimens are too few for a strict comparison. 



14. O. retrorsa, Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 12; stem retrorsely scabrid, leaves in 

 fascicled whorls short linear-oblong obtuse flat scabrid, stipules with median 

 bristles, cymes glabrous spreading, capsules sessile and pedicelled didymous, 

 calyx-teeth much shorter than the long slender corolla-tube, corolla-lobes short. 



SCINDE; near Kurrachee, Stocks. DISTRIB. Arabia. 



Stock woody, branched from the base; branches 12-18 in., slender. Leaves f-1 

 in. ; nerves indistinct. Flowers scattered on the long cyme-branches. Corolla-tube 

 in., glabrous. Capsule ^ in. diam., glabrous. 



15. O. gracilis, DC. Prodr. iv. 431 (Kohautia) ; stem below scaberu- 

 lous or glabrate, leaves not fascicled narrow linear acuminate glabrous flat, 

 stipules truncate, cyme-branches slender, capsules pedicelled obovoid globose or 

 hemispheric, corolla-lobes linear. Hedyotis gracilis, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. r 

 ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 371 ; Cat. 843. H. stricta, Wall, in As. Res. xiii. 369. 

 H. fusca, Ham. in Don Prodr. 134. H. aspera, Bedd. Ic. PL 2nd. Or. t. 32. 

 Kohautia sp., Griff. Notul. iv. 265 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 477. 



Hilly districts of India. TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5500 ft., from Garwhal to 

 Sikkim, Birma, and plains of N. BENGAL. BELQATJM, Ritchie ; TRAVANCORE, Beddome. 

 DISTRIB. Ava. 



Slender, erect, 6-12 in., sparingly branched. Leaves erect, 2-3| by T y- in.; 

 nerves indistinct. Cyme-branches spreading in flower, erect in fruit ; pedicels very 

 slender. Corolla \ in., brown. Capsules very variable in length, - in. 



16. O. stricta, Linn. Mant. 200 ; slender, glabrous, diffusely branched, 

 leaves from linear-lanceolate and flat to almost filiform with recurved margins, 

 stipules truncate, cyme-branches long slender, calyx-teeth subulate not equalling 



