Anotis.~] LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 73 



leaves, shorter stipules cut to near the base into bristles, and more spreading shorter 

 -cymes with divaricating capsules. 



7. A. lancifolia, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 135 (Hedyotis); peren- 

 nial ?, erect, branched, leaves short-petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 pubescent, stipules with short bristles, cymes terminal and subterminal many- 

 flowered corymbose glabrate or hispid, capsules sessile subsolitary didymous 

 hispid much broader th,n long, crown very prominent 2-lobed, cells 2-4-seeded. 

 Hedyotis lancifolia, Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 116. H. tubularis, Wall. Cat. 

 876 A. (a seedling state). 



MYSOEE, Bottler, Heyne. THE CONCAN, Nimmo, Dalzell, $c. 



Stem stout, shining, 2-3 ft., brittle, most diffusely branched. Leaves 1-2^ in., 

 membranous; stipules short. Cymes often 4-6 in. diam., with slender di-trichoto- 

 mous divaricating branches. Calyx-teeth subulate, many times shorter than the 

 slender cylindric corolla-tube. Capsules always hispid with recurved calyx-teeth, 

 sometimes in. across the long axis. 



** Annuals. 



"j" Capsules pedicelled or sessile, solitary or subsolitary, not collected into heads. 



8. A. Rheedii, W. $ A. Prodr. 409 (Hedyotis) ; annual, very slender, 

 nearly glabrous, Branches suberect, leaves petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate very membranous with minute scattered short hairs on both surfaces, 

 stipules short crenate, cymes axillary and terminal very lax and open with long 

 capillary peduncles and pedicels, capsules solitary or 2-nate short-pedicelled 

 puberulous broadly didymous, crown much longer than the calyx-tube, cells 1-2- 

 seeded. calyx-teeth very minute. Hedyotis latifolia, Dalz, in Hook. Kew Journ. 

 ii. 133'-, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 116. H. racemosa, Wall. Cat. 875, in part. 

 H. capillipes, Schlecht. in Herb. Hohen. No. 847. Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 25. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the hills from the Concan southwards. 



Stem 6 in.-2 ft., quite erect from the base. Leaves 2-3 in., narrowed into the 

 slender petiole. Cyme-peduncles sometimes 3 in., branches 1-2 in. Flowers very 

 minute. Corolla- rose, tube short cylindric. Capsules ~ in. diam., rather mem- 

 branous, after bursting appearing as 4 connate cups ; the calyx-tube in fruit very 

 much smaller than in any other species, and the dehiscence proportionably low. 



9. A. calycina, Wall. Cat. 878 (Hedyotis); annual, <3rect, slender, 

 glabrous, leaves small ovate-lanceolate acuminate ciliolate, cymes axillary and 

 terminal few-flowered, capsules sessile and pedicelled broader than long with 

 very short calyx-teeth, cells 20-40-seeded, seeds peltate reticulate. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 3-7000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 3-6000 ft. CHOTA NAGPORE, alt. 2-4000 ft. 



Stems 4-8 in., simple or copiously branched from the base, shining, 4-angled. 

 Leaves | 1 in., membranous with sometimes a few minute scattered hairs ; stipules 

 with short lateral bristles. Cyme-peduncles and branches capillary. Corolla short, 

 pale-purple. Capsules didymous, truncate, crown tumid often exceeding the minute 

 distant calyx-teeth. 



tt Capsules in clusters or heads. 



10. A. XVIontholoni, Hook. f. ; annual, erect, glabrate or hispid, 

 diffusely branched, leaves petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute, stipules with 

 short bristles, cymes terminal and subterminal peduncled rounded many-flowered 

 not capitate, calyx-teeth small subulate with short hair-points, capsules clustered 

 didyinous broader than long with a large double convex crown, cells 1-3- 

 seeded. 



