Hedyotis^ RtlMaceCB. 3 1 3 



19. H. Auricularia,* L. Sp. PL 101 (1753). G-dta-Xola, S. 

 Burm. Thes. 227. Fl. Zeyl. n. 64. Moon Cat. 10. Thw. Enum. 142, 



C. P. 1694. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 58. Burm. Thes. t. 108, f. 1. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. 

 Or. t. 27. 



Annual, branches numerous, prostrate, spreading, not 

 rooting at nodes, nearly cylindrical, stout, hairy especially 

 at nodes and along two lines on opp. sides, dark purple; 

 1. 1-2 in., oval, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, slightly rounded 

 at base, acute, very minutely spinous on edge, slightly hairy 

 above, more so beneath, lat. veins much curved, impressed 

 above, prominent beneath, petiole usually very short, stip. 

 short, not connate, very slightly adnate to base of petiole, 

 membranous, hairy, with 3 or 5 unequal filiform bristly teeth; 

 fl. on very short glabrous ped., crowded in small very dense 

 axillary cymes ; cal.-segm. small, triangular, acuminate, hairy, 

 recurved ; cor.-tube very short, lobes oblong, obtuse, recurved, 

 hairy at base ; capsule small, nearly globular, hairy, hard, 

 indehiscent. 



Low country ; a common weed. Fl. June-September ; white. 

 Also in most parts of the Eastern Tropics. 



20. XX. inamoena, Thw. Enum. 143 and 419 (1864). 



C. P. 3543- 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 61. 



A slender shrub, erect, with few spreading branches, stems 

 sub-quadrangular, glabrous ; 1. 3I-4I in., oblong-lanceolate, 

 attenuate at base, acuminate, acute at apex, quite glabrous, 

 lat. veins inconspicuous, petiole short, stip. connate below, 

 triangular, obtuse, 2-ribbed, glandular-pubescent, soon falling; 

 fl. few, small, nearly sessile, axillary, within the stipular 

 sheath ; cal. pilose, segm. ovate, acute ; cor. small, pilose, tube 

 rather long; capsule nearly globose, almost glabrous, crowned 

 with short cal.-segm., indehiscent. 



Moist region ; very rare. Pitigala Kande, near Balangoda (Thwaites). 

 The Fl. B. Ind. gives Adam's Peak. Fl. Sept. 



Endemic. 



Dries black. Thwaites formerly included his H. cinereo-virtdis under 

 this species, and var. ft of that species is very like, but can be easily dis- 

 tinguished by the different calyx. 



2r. H. cyanescens, Thw. Enum. 143 (1859). 



C. P. 2384. 



Fl. 15. Ind. iii. 62. 



* A uricularia, from its use as a cure for deafness ; a name of the old 

 pharmacists. 



