76 txxv. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_8piradiclis. 



slender peduncles unequally forked few-flowered bracteate, capsules subsessile tur- 

 binate with the crown very convex, cells 1-seeded. Hedyotis monosperma, var. 

 subglabra, Thw. Enum. 142. 



CEYLON; Neuera Ellia, abundant in the more elevated^districts. 



Very near H. monosperma^ with which Thwaites unites it, but the stipules are 

 much longer, as are the cymes, and the fruit is very different, twice as large and 

 more elongate with a tumid crown, and larger ellipsoid seeds. Very foetid (Thwaites). 



23. SPZRADXCX.XS, Slume. 



Annual herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite and falsely whorled, narrowed 

 into a slender petiole ; stipules long, subulate, persistent. Flowers minute, 

 white or yellow, shortly pedicelled along one side of the branches of a dichoto- 

 inous axillary or terminal spicate or paniculate cyme. Calyx-tube ovoid or 

 cylindric, ribbed ; lobes 5, small, obtuse, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube 

 long or short ; lobes 5, short, obtuse, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, in the corolla- 

 tube, filaments short ; anthers oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, glabrous 

 or hairy, stigma 2-lobed ; ovules numerous, on placentas attached to the middle 

 of the septum. Capsules small, subglobose or linear-oblong, loculicidally 2- 

 valved, many-seeded. Seeds minute, angled, testa reticulate; embryo micro- 

 scopic in fleshy albumen. DISTRIB. Species 3, Asiatic. 



1. S. caespitosa, Slume Bijd. 975 ; stern creeping below, leaves small 

 elliptic obtuse, spike shortly peduncled unilateral few-fld., capsules liaear-oblong. 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 129, excl. syn. 



MARTABAN rare, Kurz. DISTRIB. Java. 



Whole plant a span long; stem ascending from a rooting base. Leaves l-l in., 

 in few pairs, elliptic, glabrous or faintly puberulous beneath. Spikes ^-f in. I have 

 seen no Martaban specimens, but have Javan from Kurz, who consequently knew the 

 species. 



2. S. cylindrica, Wall. Cat. 6215 (Pleotheca) ; erect, leaves elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate caudate- acuminate, cymes simply dichotomous, capsules linear- 

 oblong. 



KHASIA Mrs., alt. 2-4000 ft., De Sttva, &c. MISHMI HILLS, Griffith. 



Stem 6-18 in., simple or branched. Leaves 2-6 by -2^ in., glabrous or puberu- 

 lous beneath, upper often fascicled as if whorled. Cymes 1-6 in. long, on slender 

 peduncles, branches long or short ; flowers close or distant ; bracteoles minute or 0. 

 Capsules ^ in. long, clavate in dehiscence. 



3. S. bifida, Wall. Cat. 6216 (Pleotheca ?) ; erect, leaves elliptic or elliptic- 

 lanceolate caudate or acuminate, cymes in slender panicles, capsules subglobose. 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. eny. 1872, ii. 311. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-4000 ft., De Silva, &c. UPPER ASSAM, Griffith. CACHAR, 

 Keenan. 



Stem slender or robust, 1 -several feet high, puberulous. Leaves 6-12 by 1^-4 in.-, 

 shining above, puberulous on the midrib above and nerves beneath. Panicles 4-10 

 an., many-flowered ; branches short, spreading. 



24. POr.YtmA,'#bo.fc./. 



A low herb with rooting stem. Leaves opposite or falsely whorled ; stipules 

 filiform or subulate. Flowers shortly pedicelled, crowded along one side of the 

 short alternating recurved branches of a terminal panicle ; bracts leafy, imbricate. 

 Calyx-lobes 5, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube short; throat densely 



