Oldenlandia.] LXXV. RUBIACEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) 69 



the short corolla-tube, capsules pedicelled small obovoid. Hedyotis maritirna, 

 Wall. Cat. 6192, in part ; W. $ A. Prodr. 417. H. graminifolia, Linn. f. 

 Suppl. i. 119. O. graminifolia and O. linifolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 425. 



Sandy sea-coasts of TINNEVELLY and S. CARNATIC, Bottler, Wight, &c. CEYLON, 

 common near the sea. 



Annual, repeatedly trichotomously branched from the base, 4 in.-2 ft. high ; 

 branches very slender, ending in -wiry raceme-like cymes with distant flowers. Leaves 

 1-2 in., very variable, sometimes membranous and in. broad. Flowers all pedi- 

 celled. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, in. Capsules % in. long or less. 



17. O. Shuteri, Hook. f. ; branches stout woody below ascending 

 sparingly divided, leaves short linear-lanceolate scabrid above, margins revolute, 

 stipules truncate, cyme^ branches short stiff, calyx- teeth subulate shorter than 

 the cylindric corolla-tube, capsules pedicelled small ovoid. Hedyotis maritima, 

 Wall. Cat. 6192, in part-, Wight Cat. 1314. 



MADRAS, Shuter,- Wight, 



Very different from 0. stricta, with which it is mixed in Herb. "Wallich ; much 

 stoxiter, with scabrid rigid leaves -f in. long and abbreviated cymes, in which the 

 capsules are sometimes almost crowded into heads ; the corolla-tube, too, appears to 

 be cylindric- not funnel-shaped. 



18. O. coccinea, Royle III. 241, t. 53 (Kohautia) ; very slender, erect, 

 scaberulous, leaves opposite not fascicled narrowly linear-lanceolate acute 

 margins recurved, stipules bristly, cymes sparingly branched few-flowered, 

 calyx-teeth very long equalling or shorter than the cylindric corolla-tube, cap- 

 sules oblong or subglobose. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 3-8000 ft., 

 Koyle, &c. 



Annual; stem 12-18 in., simple below or throughout its length; branches erect, 

 terminating in long-peduncled cymes. Leaves in distant pairs, 1-2 by ^-^ in., rough 

 to the touch. Flowers subsessile, pedicels lengthening in fruit. Corolla scarlet, tube 

 A in., lobes oblong. Capsules very variable, -5 in. long, often shorter than the 

 slender calyx-teeth. 



SUIWEX. HI. Cronotheca. Calyx-teeth short, broadly triangular, very 

 small in fruit. Corolla-tube short. Ovary terete, 4-angled or 4- winged. Seeds 

 numerous, subglobose, testa deeply coarsely pitted. 



19. O. paniculata, Linn. ; Sunn. Fl. 2nd. 38, t. 15, f. 1 ; annual, 

 glabrous, branches erect or ascending succulent, leaves petioled elliptic-ovate or 

 oblong subacute flat, stipules truncate with median points or bristles, cymes 

 3-8-fld. subterminal, calyx-tube not produced above the ovary, capsules on 

 slender pedicels didynious. DC. Prodr. iv. 427. O. alata, Roxb. Fl. 2nd. i. 421 

 (not of Koenig). O. multiflora, Cav. Ic. vi. 53, t. 674, f. 2. ft. racemosa and 

 rainosissima, Bl. Bijd. 972. Hedyotis racemosa, W. 8f A. Prodr. 414 ; Wt. Ic. 

 t, 312 ; Wall. Cat. 865, in part. II. pauiculata, Dene. ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, ii. 134. H. minima, Heyne ; Wall. Cat. 877. 



EASTERN BENGAL, SIKKIM, ASSAM, SILHET, PEGV, the MALAY PENINSULA, the 

 CARNATIC, and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Birma, Malay, and Philippine Islands, China, 

 Polynesia. 



Stout or slender, succulent, 6-18 in. high, erect or diffuse, branched from the 

 base ; branches obtusely 4-angled, robust or slender. Leaves -3 by -! in., bright 

 green, soft, nerves indistinct, narrowed into the short or long petiole. Cymes in the 

 upper axils, short, 3-8-fld., panicled, peduncles and pedicels stout or slender. FJowers 

 minute, white. Capsules very variable, - in. diam., turbinate didymous or hemi- 

 spheric, terete or 4-ribbed, membranous ; crown usually exceeding the calyx-teeth. 

 A very variable weed, sometimes erect, with stem and lower branches as stout as a 



