63. RUBIACTLE. 83 



HAB. Taito : Hakuliakuslia. 



DISTREB. Tropical Asia, the Philippines and Australia. 



8. Hedyotis LINN. 



Di'.-l"f<''ii""'^ K< ;i t tl> Formo*'- 



( 1 ) Leaves linear, smaller H. lispida. 



Leaves lanceolate, larger. (2). 

 ( 2 ) Flowers terminal or lateral cyme, cymes long pedunculate. 



H. usis. 



Flowers in axillary-clusters, clusters sessile H. >)cineHa. 



Hedyotis hispida HETZ. ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enmn. PI. Formos. p. 

 185. 



HAD. Kelung, Hikaku, Taihokn, Kussliaku. 

 DISTKIB. India and Malaya. 



Hedyotis nantoensis HAYATA Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 142. Herb, but 

 shrubby towards the base, seemingly scandent or voluble, very green ; branches 

 angulate, slightly scabrous or laavigate, internodes 6-7 cm. long. Leaves ob- 

 long, oblong-lanceolate, changeable in size, 5-10 cm. long, 2-3 i cm. broad, 

 acute or acuminate at the base, slightly attenuate to the petioles, entire, 

 ohartaceous-meinbranaeeous, lateral veins 5-6, basal veins parallel to the 

 margin, the rests diverging upwards with an acute angle, then recurving, im- 

 pressed on the upper surface, slightly prominent on the lower surface, 

 upper surface very green, lower surface pallid, lx>th surfaces glabrous, but 

 slightly scabrid, j>etioles 5 mm. long, stipules interpetiolar and membraiiaceous, 

 aristately 4- dentate, sinus of the teeth truncate. Flowers in paniculate- 

 cymes, cymes terminal or axillary, flowers at the apex of branches of 

 cymes uml.iellately 10-30-fasciculate ; bract ^ lanceolate, pedicels 2 mm. 

 long. Calyx- tube campanulate, 11 mm. long, 4-lobed, lol^es linear, 2 mm. long, 

 -J- mm. broad, recurved, sinus of the lobes truncate and with appendage, ap- 

 pendages setiformed, i mm. long. Corolla campanulate-tubiformed, tube 1 

 mm. long, smooth on both sides, limb 4-lobed, lobes angustate, 5i mm. long, 

 1 mm. broad, revolute to the midway, obtuse at the apex, 3 -nerved, outer 



