ng, 
G 
‘Oldenlandia. } RUBIACEA. 557 
943. Hepyotis Hisprpa Retz; F. I. i. 364; F. B. I. iii. 60. 
ehar; Chota Nagpur; Chittagong. 
An annual herb; stem terete below, 4-angled above. 
944, Hepyoris Auricunaria Linn.; F. I. i. 365; F. B. I. iii. 58; 
— ED. o. 66. 
M8, Orprbengal, Duars ; Chittagong. 
iii, 65. ““<<_9 feet high ; stem and branches terete. 
O. and E, #47 Roxb. ; F. I. i. 365; F. B. I. ili. 59. 
A diffuse, Chittagong. 
"= -.. werd, 15-2 feet high. 
_ ‘46. Hepyoris cuapra Br.; F. B. I. iii. 59. Spermacoce glabra 
I. i. 368 
| Chittagong. 
| A herb, 2-3 feet high ; stem round, smooth, fistular. 
_ Mi. Hepyoris Tuomsont Hook. f.; F. B. I. iii. 68 
-and BE. al. 
A small annual herb, on muddy river-banks. 
411. Oldenlandia Linn. 
Erect, slender, or diffuse, 2-3-chotomously branched herbs; 
é usually small and narrow; stipules acute or bristly. 
: us , usually in dichotomous, axillary and terminal, 
Bmerally Paniculate cymes, rarely solitary. Sepals connate in a 
te or subglobose calyx; lobes 4, rarely 5, usually erect and 
| often distant in fruit, occasionally leafy and close together, some- 
times with intercalated accessory teeth. Petals 4, rarely 5, con- 
tate in a rotate, hypocrateriform or funnel-shaped corolla; lobes 
btuse, Valvate. Stamens 4, rarely 5, adnate to mouth of corolla ; 
rae 8 short; anthers usually exserted. Carpels connate in a 
tag Ovary; ovules usually many, on placentas near base of 
hae style filiform ; stigmas 2, linear. Fruit a small capsule, 
..._Y Membranous, terete or didymous or angled, opening locu- 
Seeds € apex, rarely quite indehiscent, oe 
oo or globose; testa not winged, smooth or pitted; 
n fleshy ; embryo clavate. 
] ee 
teeth triangular, lanceolate, their bases in oe 
itary, 1-2-flowered, filiform, as long as the flat, ee ‘ 
: te leaves; corolla-tube hardly exceeding ae 
a » flaccid herb ; flowers mostly in lower axils [p- 558] ery 20 
