Hedyolis.] Rubicice<2. 305 



Endemic. 



Pale golden-green when dry. 



3. H. cymosa, Thiv. Ennm. 142 (1859). 

 C. P/3421. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 50. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 35. 



A small shrub, with numerous spreading, flexuose, nearly 

 cylindrical, glabrous branches; 1. if— 3 in., linear-lanceolate, 

 sessile, tapering at both ends, subacute, glabrous, lat. veins 

 inconspicuous, stip. triangular, long-acuminate, glandular- 

 serrate, keeled, persistent ; fl. on short ped., cymes terminal, 

 large, very lax, regularly dichotomous, puberulous, bracts 

 small, leaflike ; cal. glabrous, segm. longer than tube, linear- 

 lanceolate, spreading, recurved ; cor. hairy at throat, lobes 

 linear-lanceolate, shorter than tube; capsule about \ in., nearly 

 globose, crowned with the long cal.-segm., dehiscent in 2 

 ventrally splitting carp., seeds three in each carp., finely 

 muriculate. 



Moist low country; very rare. Pasdun and Reigam Korales 

 (Thwaites); summit of Nillowe Kande about 1000 ft. Fl. March, April, 

 and September; white. 



Endemic. 



Turns black in drying. I do not find the cal.-segm. longer than ripe 

 fruit, as stated in Fl. B. Ind. 



4. K. XVIacreei, Hk.f. in Fl. B. Ind. iii. 50 (i{ 



1 Branches obscurely 4-angled, softly pubescent ; 1. 3-4 in., 

 lanceolate, narrowed at base, acuminate, recurved and com- 

 plicate, rather scabridly pubescent above, softly tomentose 

 beneath, many nerved, petiole £-§ in., stip. broader than long, 

 abruptly cuspidate, eglandular, tomentose ; fl. small, \ in., 

 cymes large, panicled with whorled spreading branches, 

 rounded, terminal; cal. pubescent; cor. -lobes pubescent 

 within, capsule small, ellipsoid, cal.-teeth shorter than it, cells 

 many-seeded.' 



Based on a specimen collected by Macrae (ex Herb. Hort. Soc. 

 Lond.) in Herb. Kew, without definite locality. 



The above description is copied from Fl. B. Ind. 



5. XX. obscura, Thiv. Enum. 141 (1859). 

 C. P. 94. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 51. 



A low shrub, stems stout, compressed, glabrous; 1. 2-3^ in., 



from oval to narrowly lanceolate, tapering to base, acute at 



apex, quite glabrous, rather thick, lat. veins obscure, petiole 



\ in., stip. very large, slightly connate, ovate, very deeply 



pectinate with long linear ciliatc teeth, soon caducous ; fl. on 



r 11. X 



