Anotis.~\ LXXV. RUBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 75. 



SECT. II. Patzia. Fruit compressed or flattened, tardily dehiscent or 

 indehiscent. 



* Fruit much flattened, indehiscent or obscurely dehiscent in the crwvn. 



15. A . nummularia, Arn. Puuitt. PL Ind. Or. 23 (Hedyotis) ; perennial, 

 hairy, stems long stout ascending, leaves sessile orbicular or broadly ovate 

 obtuse or apiculate glabrous or hairy, stipules of a few bristles or obsolete, 

 cymes terminal long-peduncled simple or 3-chotomous, flowers capitate, fruit 

 flat orbicular indehiscent, cells 1-2-seeded. 



CEYLON ; abundant in wet places ; alt. 5-8000 ft. 



Stem 8-18 in. from a creeping base, sparingly branched, nodes often distant. Leaves 

 uniform throughout the stem, | in. diam., coriaceous, usually with crisped hairs, 

 especially beneath. Cymes on stout peduncles 1-4 in., each usually once 3-chotomously 

 divided, branches terminating in a head of flowers ^-~ in. diam. ; flowers sessile. Calyx- 

 teeth short. Fruit with 2 ridges on each face, not at all didymous, contracted below 

 the short calyx-teeth. 



VAB. glabra, Thw. Enum. 142 ; quite glabrous, leaves ovate very coriaceous flat or- 

 with recurved margins. H. nummulariformis, Arn. I. c. I reluctantly follow 

 Thwaites in regarding this distinct-looking plant as a variety of A. nummularia. 



16. A. Wig-litiana, Wall. Cat. 6194 (Hedyotis) ; perennial, tomentose, 

 diffuse, leaves sessile or subsessile ovate subacute, stipules short deeply toothed,, 

 cymes small terminal and on short axillary branches sessile capitate few-flowered 

 mvolucrate, fruit orbicular compressed indehiscent 2-4-celled, cells 1-2-seeded. 

 Hedyotis Wightiana and H. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6194, 6189. Oldenlandia 

 Teysmaniana, Mia. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 354. 'Spermacoce compressa, Wall. Cat. 

 6187. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-8000 ft., from Nepal to Bhotan. KHASIA MTS., alt. 

 4-5000 ft. Mountains of the WESTERN PENINSULA, alt. 5-7000 ft. DISTRIB. Ava, 

 Malay Islands, Cochin China. 



Stems 2-18 in., leaves clothed with soft curly spreading hairs. Leaves |-1 in.,., 

 variable in breadth. Heads involucrate by 2 leaves. Flowers white blue or purplish, 

 shortly pedicelled. Fruit very small, contracted towards the short calyx-teeth, grooved 

 at the union of the carpels, rugose when dry. The Western Peninsula specimens are 

 much shorter than the Northern or Eastern. Clarke has observed that the flowers 

 are white in the 2-carpellary, light blue in the 3-carpellary, and blue in the 4- 

 carpellary specimens. 



* Fruit compressed, finally septicidally dehiscent. 



17. A. monosperma, W. fy A. Prodr. 410 (Hedyotis); perennial,, 

 slender, diffuse, more or less hairy, leaves petioled small ovate subacute, stipules 

 with short lateral bristles, cymes small short terminal peduncled sparingly un- 

 equally forked few-flowered bracteate, capsules shortly pedicelled subglobose, cells 

 1-2-seeded. H. monosperma, Wight Ic. 1. 1031. H/mysurensis, Wall. Cat. 882. 

 Oldenlandia m} r surensis, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 531. 



NILGHERRY and PULNEY MTS., Heyne, Wight, &c. 



A small-leaved much branched delicate species, more or less clothed with crisped 

 hairs. Leaves ^-1 in., petiole often half their length. Cymes including the peduncles- 

 rarely in. long ; flowers minute. Corolla-tube broadly funnel-shaped, about twice- 

 the length of the subulate calyx-lobes. Capsules T \j in. diam., with recurved calyx- 

 teeth, didymous ; cells usually 1 -seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, deeply pitted. 



18. A. Richardiana, Am. Pugill. PL Ind. Or. 22 (Hedyotis); peren- 

 nial, diffuse, slender, glabrous, or more or less hairy or villous, leaves petioled 

 ovate acute, stipules with long- hairy bristles, cymes terminal and subterminal on 



