Anotis.'] Rubiacece. 317 



very acute, glabrous, stip. adnate to base of 1. and with them 

 forming a close sheath round the stem, mouth truncate, ciliate; 

 fl. on slender, erect ped., few, distant, in slender erect elon- 

 gated racemose cymes; cal.-segm. short, lanceolate, subulate; 

 cor.-lobes oblong, obtuse, longer than tube ; capsule \ in., 

 twice as long as broad, oblong, crowned with tooth-like cal.- 

 segm., glabrous, top slightly rounded. 



Sandy seashores ; rather common, especially in the north of the island. 

 Fl. Dec-March ; pink. 

 Also in S. India. 

 Remarkably like a Silene or Tunica in habit. 



7. O. biflora, L. Sp. PL 119 (1753). 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 68. Hedyotis racemosa, Lam., Thw. Enum. 144. C. P. 

 1679. 



Fl. B. Ind. Hi. 69 (O. paniculate?) and 70. Burm. f. Fl. Ind. t. 15, f. 1. 

 (bad) (O. paniculata). Wight, Ic. t. 312. 



Annual, stems 4-12 in., erect or ascending, rather stout, 

 quadrangular, glabrous, slightly branched; 1. |-i|in., oblong- 

 oval, tapering at base into obscure petiole, subacute, apicu- 

 late, glabrous, rather thick, stip. short, broadly triangular, 

 acute ; fl. rather large (for genus), pedicellate, 2 or 3 together 

 on short axillary peduncles, or, the 1. being small and bract- 

 like, together forming a short racemose panicle; cal.-segm. 

 lanceolate, acute, glabrous; ov. distinctly quadrangular, 

 glabrous; capsule turbinate-ovoid, strongly 4-ribbed, truncate, 

 crowned with distant cal.-segm.; seeds pitted. 



Low country, chiefly near the coast ; rather common. Galle ; 

 Colombo; Batticaloa; Trincomalie; Mannar. All the year; white. 



Throughout the Tropics of Asia. 



I cannot distinguish two species here, as is done in Fl. B. Ind. 

 Hermann's type specimen of O. biflora, L., is a luxuriant one, and would 

 be now generally named O. paniculata. The brief description of it in Fl. 

 Zeyl. is good. O. pa?iiculata, L., is, moreover, quite doubtful; it is 

 entirely based on a figure of Burman in Thes. Zeyl. t. 71, f. 2, which is 

 apparently a Mollugo (certainly not an Oldenlandid). But O. paniculata, 

 Burm. f. (the figure quoted above from his Fl. Ind.), is the present species. 



14. ANOTIS, D.C. 



Annual or perennial herbs, stip. pectinate or bristly or 

 nearly absent, fl. small, nearly sessile, in small axillary or 

 terminal cymes; cal.-segm. 4, distant in fruit; cor.-lobes 4, 

 shorter than tube, valvate; stam. 4; ov. 2- or 4-ccllcd, ovules 

 few or 1 in each cell, placentas basal, style simple, stigmas 2 

 or 4, linear; fruit a small capsule, dehiscent on the top or 

 indehiscent; seeds very few, pitted. — Sp. 25; 18 in Fl.B.Ind. 



