166 King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



17. Hedyotis pinifolia, Wall. Cat. 850; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 III. 60. Diffuse, sometimes with a woody root ; stems as thick as a 

 crow-quill or thicker, terete when old, angled and grooved when dry, 

 glabrous. Leaves sessile, sub-coriaceous, linear, acute, the margins invo- 

 lute, the bases adnate to the short truncate stipules, puberulous on the 

 upper but glabrous on the lower surface, nerves obscure, midrib dis- 

 tinct; length -5 to 1'5 in. ; breadth '05 to -1 in. Stipules cupular, glab- 

 rous, with a few small bristles on the mouth. Cymes axillary and termin- 

 al, sessile, 1- to 4-flowered. Flowers 1 in. long, on pedicels shorter 

 than themselves. Calyx sparsely hispid, ovoid-campanulate, with 4 

 narrow spreading acute lobes nearly as long as the tube. Corolla with a 

 cylindrical tube exceeding the calyx-lobes ; its lobes 4, lanceolate, acute. 

 Stamens exserted. Capsule sparsely pubescent, membranous, broadly 

 ovoid, ridged, crowned by the calyx-teeth, dehiscing by apical valves, 

 several seeded. Gr. Don Gen. Syst. III. 525; Scleromitrion rigidum, 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877 II. 136 (excl. syn. Miq.) 



Perak : Ridley 3070, 7203 ; Scortechini 1012. Province Wellesley : 

 King. Singapore : Ridley 8924, 8925 ; Hullett 564. Johor : Ridley 

 11141. Pahang: Ridley 1623. Kedah : Curtis. Malacca: Griffith 

 (K.D.) 2895/2.— Distrib. British India. 



18. Hedyotis hispida, Retz Obs. IV. 23. Herbaceous, slightly 

 branched ; stems thicker than a crow-quill, sub-terete when old, deeply 

 two-grooved, compressed and 4-angled when young, sparsely and softly 

 pubescent, especially near the nodes. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrowly 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, the base somewhat narrowed; both surfaces 

 slightly scaberulous, olivaceous-green when dry, and the edges recurved ; 

 main-nerves obscure, midrib prominent below ; length "8 to 2 in. ; 

 breadth - 25 to '5 in. ; petiole *1 in. or less. Stipules adnate to the 

 petiole to form a campanulate pubescent cup with 6 to 8 bristles on its 

 mouth. Cymes few-flowered, sessile, axillary. Flowers '2 in. long, 

 sessile. Calyx campanulate, hispid, its lobes linear, erect, as long as the 

 tube. Corolla as long as the calyx-lobes, tubular ; its lobes lanceolate, 

 acuminate, hairy. Capsule '1 in. long, ovoid, coarsely pubescent, ribbed, 

 crowned by the erect linear calyx-teeth. Seeds numerous, dark brown. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 364; Wall. Cat. 845 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 61. 

 Scleromilrion hispidum, Korth. in Miq. Fl. Ind. Bot. II. 185. Oldenlandia 

 hispida, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 150. 



Perak : Scortechini 47, 201. Penang : Deschamps; Curtis 1847. — 

 Distrib. British India. 



13. Oldenlandia, Linn. 

 Slender erect or diffuse much-branched herbs. Leaves usually 



