Spermacoce.] LXXV. RUBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 201 



flat or waved, capsule hispid or pubescent, seeds oblong granulate opaque. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 373 ; Wall. Cat. 825 ; W. $ A. frodr. 438 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL Ml. S. articularis, Linn, f.; Roxb. I. c. 372; Wall. Cat. 827; 

 W. # A. I. c.. ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 137. S. scabra, Willd. ; Roxb. 

 1. c. 371 ; Watt. Cat. 824. S. hirta, Rattler in Nov. Act. Berol. 1803, 95. S. 

 longicaulis, Wall. ; avana, Wall. ; ramosissima, Wall. ; and tubularis, Br. in 

 Wall. Cat. 826, 828, 829, 836. Burm. Thes. Zeylan. t. 20, f. 3. Rheede Hort. 

 Mai. ix. t. 76. 



Throughout India, from the WESTERN HIMALAYA at Simla, ascending to 3000 ft. to 

 ASSAM, and southwards to CErLON,and SINGAPORE. DISTRIB. S. China, Malayan 

 Archipelago. 



Boot annual or perennial; branches 6-14 in., ascending, stout, 4-angled, scabrous 

 hirsute or glabrous. Leaves |-1^ by ^-f in,, often rounded at the tip, rigidly coria- 

 ceous, pale when dry, margins sometimes thickened and cartilaginous, usually very 

 scabrid above ; nerves rarely impressed. Flowers 4-6 in a whorl ; bracteoles filiform, 

 equalling the calyx. Calyx-teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla - % in., blue or white. 

 Stigmas 2, very short. Capsule pubescent or hispid, rounded at the base. Seeds very 

 variable, y^ g in. long, narrow or broad. A maritime Carnatic form has very hairy 

 branches and stout waved apiculate leaves with cartilaginous edges ; it is .Roxburgh's 

 typical S. hispida, and passes by insensible gradations into other forms. 



4. S. scaberrima, Blume Bijd. 946 ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute scabrid above with deeply impressed nerves, capsule glabrous, seeds obloug 

 granulate shining. DC. Prodr. iv. 555; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 331. 



MALACCA, Griffith. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java, Banca. 



Rather stout, 12 16 in., brown when dry; branches ascending, rather shining, 

 nearly glabrous but scabrid or retrorsely hairy on the angles below the nodes. Leave* 

 1-1 in., subsessile, rigidly coriaceous, very scabrid above, hardly so beneath; nerves 

 very oblique. Flowers few. Corolla^ not "seen. Calyx-teeth lanceolate. Capsule 

 brown. Seeds small, oblong, with a large ventral cavity. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



5. BUHMANNI, DC. Prodr. iv. 555. S. corymbosa, Burm. Fl. Ind, 34, non Linn., is 

 undeterminable. 



S. ? PROCUMBENS, Linn. ; DC. 1. c. is probably a Hedyotis. 



S. ? IIKDYOTIDEA, DC. I. c. Hedyotis fruticosa, Eetz Obs. ii. 8, an Linn.? See p. 49. 



88. CAIXJZ.ONXA, A. Rich. 



Low rigid shrubs. Leaves small, opposite, linear or subulate ; stipules 

 usually connate with the petioles into an entire sheath with 2 bristles or obso- 

 lete. Flowers small, solitary, or in simple spiciforni cymes, .white. Calyx-limb 

 2-5-toothed, dilated after flowering into a scarious c^enate wing or feathery 

 bristles. Corolla funnel-shaped, throat naked; lobes 4-5, valvate in bud. 

 Stamens 4-5, in the throat or tube of the corolla, filaments short; anthers 

 linear-oblong. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, arms 2 

 short ; ovules 1 in each cell on the centre of the septum, amphitropous. Fruit 

 ovoid, of 2 terete indehiscent cocci crowned with the enlarged calyx. Seeds 

 oblong, grooved ventrally, albumen horny ; cotyledons flat, radicle slende r 

 inferior. DISTKIB. Species 10, N. African and W. Asian. 



1. G. ealycoptera, Jaub. $ Spach III. PL Or. i. 147, t. 80; glabrous, 

 leaves linear, stipules of the floral leaves minutely 6-8-too^ied, flowers spicate, 

 fruit with erect wings. Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 15. Spermacoce calyptera, Dene. 

 Flor. Sinaic. 29. 



