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the internodes shorter than the leaves; stipules 1-2 mm. long, triangular, cuspidate or laciniate- 
lobate, the lobes gland-tipped; leaves sessile, erect or ascending, linear, 1.5—4.5 cm. long, 
1—2.5 mm. wide, attenuate at each end; flowers cymose, the cymes terminal, long-pedunculate, 
few-flowered, the pedicels slender, 2-7 mm. long; hypanthium about 1 mm. long, the calyx- 
lobes longer, lance-subulate, attenuate; corolla funnelform, about 8 mm. long, purplish, the 
tube narrowly obconic, several times as long as the calyx-lobes, the lobes oblong-ovate or 
ovate-triangular, obtuse, about one third as long as the tube; capsule obovoid, 4 mm. long; 
seeds minute, subangulate, yellowish-brown, lustrous. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Open glades, Sierra de San Felipe, Oaxaca, at an altitude of 2400 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Oaxaca. 
6. Oldenlandia Boscii (DC.) Chapm. FI. S. U. S. 181. 1860. 
Hedyotis Boscii DC. Prodr. 4: 420. 1830. 
Perennial, glabrous throughout, usually with slender rootstocks, erect or decumbent, 
1-3 dm. high, the stems usually numerous and much branched, the branches slender, subangu- 
late, the internodes mostly shorter than the leaves; stipules 1-2 mm. long, the lobes bicuspidate 
or laciniate-dentate, the teeth tipped with red glands; leaves sessile or short-petiolate, mostly 
divaricate, the blades linear or elliptic-linear, 8-25 mm. long, 1-4 mm. wide, acuteto attenuate 
at the apex, attenuate at the base, thin, bright-green, 1-nerved; flowers few or solitary in the 
axils, subsessile; hypanthium about 1 mm. long, the calyx-lobes as long or longer, lance-tri- 
angular, acuminate, approximate in fruit; corolla subrotate, white, about half as long as the 
calyx-lobes; capsule subglobose, 2—2.5 mm. long, bisulcate, coarsely granulate; seeds minute, 
angulate, brownish-black. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: Wet, sandy soil, South Carolina to Florida, Arkansas, and Texas. 
7. Oldenlandia uniflora L. Sp. Pl. 119. 1753. 
Hedyotis Auricularia Walt. Fl. Car. 85. 1788. Not H. Auricularia L. 1753. 
Oldenlandia glomerata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 83. 1803. 
Hedyotis virginica Spreng. Pug. 2:34. 1815. 
Hedyotis glomerata Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 188. 1816. 
Edrastima uniflora Raf. Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 6: 269. 1834. 
Stelmotis glomerata Raf. New F1. 4: 101. 1838. 
Stelmanis glomerata Raf. Aut. Bot. 13. 1840. 
Erect or decumbent annual, the stems simple or often much branched, 0.5-6 dm. long, 
the branches slender, subangulate, white-hirsutulous along the angles, at least above, often 
densely so, the internodes usually longer than the leaves; stipules 1.5—3 mm. long, the lobes 
mostly bicuspidate, sometimes laciniately lobed or dentate, white-hirsute; petioles stout, 
2.5 mm. long or shorter; leaf-blades mostly ovate, sometimes oval or ovate-elliptic, 6-25 mm. 
long, 2.5-12 mm. wide, acute or obtuse at the apex, mucronulate, obtuse to acute at the base, 
thin, bright-green or yellowish-green, scaberulous or hirsutulous along the veins, paler beneath, 
the lateral veins nearly obsolete; flowers axillary, solitary or densely clustered, subsessile or 
short-pedicellate, the pedicels shorter than the calyx; hypanthium about 1 mm. long, the calyx- 
lobes longer, lanceolate to broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, ciliolate, approximate in fruit; 
corolla subrotate, white, much shorter than the calyx-lobes; capsule subglobose, 1.5—2 mm. 
long, bisulcate, usually densely white-hirsutulous; seeds minute, angulate, brownish-black, dull. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Virginia. 
DISTRIBUTION: In moist or wet soil, southern New York to Florida and Texas; Cuba and the 
Isle of Pines. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 3402; ed. 2. f. 3922; Rob. & Fern. Man. f. 917. 
8. Oldenlandia fasciculata (Bertol.) pimall, Bi SB. .U. os. 1106: 
1903. 
Hedyotis glomerata T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 2: 42, in part, 1841. Not. H. glomerata Ell. 1816. 
Hedyotis fasciculata Bertol. Mem. Accad. Bologna 2: 306. 1850. 
Oldenlandia glomerata A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 12: 27, in part. 1884. Not O. glomerata Michx. 1803. 
Oldenlandia littoralis C. Mohr, Bull. Torrey Club 24:27. 1897. 
Annual, erect or decumbent, the stems much or sparsely branched, 1-6 dm. long, the 
branches slender, nearly terete, glabrous or slightly pubescent at the nodes, the internodes 
