LXXV. KUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 129 



Use. W. Sf A. Prodr. 439 ; Wt. III. t. 128 ; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 111. 

 K. teres, DC. Prodr. iv. 569; Wall. Cat. 819, in part. K. exserta, DC. I. c. 

 K. umbellata, Banks; Spreng. Syst. i. 406. K. sumatrensis, Wall. Cat. 6183. 

 K. niollis, r. in Wall. Cat. 820, not of W. $ A. K. stricta, Thw. Enum. 152. 

 Spermacoce ? teres and S. exserta, Roxb. Ifort. Seng. 10 ; Fl. Ind. i. 367, 368 ; 

 d. Carey # Wall. i. 373, 374. S. sumatrensis, Retz Obs. iv. 23, ex Cham. $ 

 . Schl. in Linnaa, iii. 316, not of Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 366. ? Ouncea trifida, Ham. 

 in Don Prodr. 135. 



Throughout tropical India, from Garwhal in the WESTERN HIMALAYA, eastward to 

 Sikkim, ascending to 5000 ft., and in the KHASIA Mrs. to 4000 ft. ; to CEYLON and 

 MALACCA. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago and Tropical Australia. 



An erect slender annual, 1-4 ft.; stem cylindric or obscurely 4-angled, sparingly 

 3-chotomously branched, internodes long. Leaves 3-5 by ^-1 in., pale greenish or 

 -brown when dry, narrowed into the short petiole ; stipular bristles I in. Flowers 

 ^-\ in., very small, white or purplish. Calyx-teeth minute, triangular, subequal. 

 Corolla-tube hairy within. Fruit ~ in., sessile or shortly pedicelled, 4-angled. I do 

 not doubt this being the Ouncea trifida of Don's Prodromus, though the flowers are 

 described as yellow and the fruit as a berry. Roxburgh's figure of Spermacoce teres 

 differs from his description in the 2- partible fruit and plano-convex seed ; he describe-* 

 the seed of 8. teres as round, which it should not be. 



'* Ripe mericarps either connate, the fruit falling away as a whole with the 

 central columella, or the mericarps separating from one another and falling away 

 from the columella. 



t Calyx-teeth all very small, equal or one rather larger than the rest. 



2. K. moll is, W. $ A. Prodr. 439, not of Br. ; pubescent villous or 

 toinentose, leaves petioled rarely sessile ovate or lanceolate, stipules with hairy 

 "bristles, fruits crowded ellipsoid, mericarps connate and adriate to the columella. 

 K. coryrnbosa, Thw. Enum. 151 ; Schlecht. in Herb. Hohen. n. 991. ? K. stricta, 

 Gaertn. Fruct. i. 122, t. 25. K. teres, Wall. Cat. 819, in part. 



Mountains of the WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards, alt. 3-7000 

 ft. CEYLON, Walker; Hangalle, alt, 5000 ft., Thwaites. 



An erect annual?, 1-3 ft., very variable in size; much more robust; branched and 

 leafy than K. corymbosa; branches 4-angled. Leaves 1 v,-5 by %-!% in., brown when 

 dry, with often rufous hairs ; petiole -| in. Cymes with short spreading branches ; 

 flowers crowded, blueish, -|- in. long. ^Fruits smooth, terete, glabrous, ^ in. long, 

 black when dry, crowned with the rounded calyx-teeth. In Ceylon specimens the 

 petiole is 1 in. and very slender, in a specimen from Ritchie the leaves are quita 

 sessile. Gaertner represents the mericarp of his K. stricta (from Ceylon) as sepa- 

 rating and subacute dorsally, as in K. zeylanica, which has, however, very different 

 calyx-teeth from Gaertner's figure. 



3. XL. Heyneana, DC. Prodr. iv. 570; glabrous or nearly so, leaves 

 petioled ovate or linear-lanceolate, stipules with long rigid glabrous bristles, 

 fruits racemose linear-oblong, mericarps separating. W. 8f A. Prodr.' 440. 

 Spermacoce corymbosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 98 (ex. W. 8f A.~), 



SOUTHERN MYSORE and CARNATIC; Dindygul Mts. and Courtallum, Wight. 



Erect, leafy; branches robust, terete, shining. Leaves 2-3 by f-l in., rather 

 coriaceous, brown when dry, acute or acuminate; stipular bristles stout, smooth, .}- 

 in. Cymes puberulous, branches elongating after flowering as in K. corymbosa, but 

 fruits pedicelled. Fruit pale, narrow, with a groove on each side where the mericarps 

 separate. 



4. XL. Wig-htiana, Wall. Cat. 6184; glabrous, slender, leaves sessile 

 linear obtuse recurved, stipules entire or 2-3-cleft, fruits few short didynioua 

 truncate, mericarps separating. W. fy A. Prodr. 440. 



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