308 Rubiacecz. \_Hedyotis. 



Easily confounded with Allceophania decipiens unless the fruit be 

 examined ; but the two stigmas (instead of 4) will also distinguish it, as 

 well as the softer character of the hair. Very obviously dimorphic. 



10. K. cinereo-viridis, Thw. Enum. 419 (1864). 

 C. P. 95. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 55. 



A shrub, branches slender, spreading, supra-axillary, when 

 young acutely quadrangular afterward cylindrical, glabrous; 

 1. J-3 in., long-lanceolate, acute at base, acuminate, acute, 

 glabrous, paler beneath, with few lat. veins very fine but 

 rather prominent, stip. not connate, narrowly triangular, pro- 

 longed into a beak, 2-ribbed, pilose ; fl. on short ped., cymes 

 axillary and terminal, shortly pedunculate ; cal. glabrous, 

 limb large, tubular, segm. linear, acute, as long as limb ; cor.- 

 tube long, slender, lobes as long as tube, oblong-linear, acute, 

 glabrous ; ripe fruit not seen. 



Var. /3, subverticillata, Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. 42. C. P. 2639. 



L. larger and broader; cymes all axillary, sessile. Dries 

 green. 



Var. y, fumata, Thw. in Trim. 1. c. C. P. 3909. 



Fl. pedicellate, cymes sessile, lax. Dries black. 



Moist region ; rare. The type from Matale East. Var. j3 from Am- 

 bagamuwa and Nillowe Kande. Var. y from Adam's Peak. Fl. March- 

 June; white. 



Endemic. 



Var. y ought perhaps rather to be considered a distinct species. Var. 

 truncata, Trim. 1. c, is probably rather a monstrosity (gall) with the 

 calyx-limb almost without lobes ; it does not dry black. This species and 

 its various forms require further examination. 



11. H. rh.inoph.ylla, Thw. ex Trim, in Joum. Bot. xxiii. 208 

 (1885). 



C. P. 3984. 



A small much-branched shrub, branches slender, cylin- 

 drical, finely puberulous when young ; 1. \\- 3 in., narrowly 

 lanceolate, much tapering to base, very caudate-acuminate, 

 acute, glabrous, pale green, whitish beneath; lat. veins obscure, 

 petiole short, puberulous, stip. connate, forming a loose sheath, 

 puberulous, truncate with a few short deciduous teeth, per- 

 sistent ; fl. on long slender ped., cymes terminal, paniculate, 

 very lax, bracts small, leaflike; cal.-limb large, campanulate, 

 glabrous, segm. short, triangular, subacute; cor.-tube narrowly 

 funnel-shaped, lobes rather short, puberulous within ; capsule 

 \ in., broadly ovoid, crowned with cal.-limb, readily splitting 

 nto 2 ventrally dehiscent carp. ; seeds numerous, muriculate. 



