1877.] Knoideclcje of the Burmese Flora. 133 



Scanclont or diffuse, quite glabrous, glaucous ; flowers pcdicclled ; calyx-lobcs acute, 



. . JS. scandens. 



Erect, branched, quite glabrous ; flowers sessile ; calyx-lobes broad and blunt, H. elegans. 



Subg. 3. Mctaholos, Bl. Capsule septicidally dehiscent or nearly so, hemispherical 



and more or less truncate at the apex, often obscurely 2-lobed. Diffuse or half-scandent, 



rarely erect perennials. Flowers in axillary (very rarely terminal) clusters or cymes. 



* Flowers in axillary peduncled cymes. Prostrate or diffuse perennials. 



X Flowers pedicelled, in loose cymes. 



All parts more or less pubescent ; calyx-lobes longer than the tube, H. ulmifolia. 



All parts glabrous ; calyx-teeth minute, H. ijlahra. 



X X Flowers sessile or nearly so, in little heads collected into peduncled 

 cymes or clusters. 

 Flowers minute, pale blue ; capsule only about \ lin. across, K. costata. 



* * Floivers sessile or very shortly pedicelled, in axillary or terminal clusters or 



heads. 

 Prostrate or diffuse, all parts more or less pubescent ; clusters axillary, . . H. auricularia. 

 Erect, slightly pubescent ; clusters terminal, involucred by the 4 or 5 uppermost leaves, 



. . H. scahra. 



1. H. TRUS-ERYIA, Eoem. and Schult, Sjst. Veg. III. 197 ; Bedd. 

 Icon. t. 29. {Oldenlandia trinervia, Retz. Obs. IV. 23 ; Miq. Fl. Ind Bat. 

 11. 189). 



Hab. Chittagong (Hf. and Th.) ; Arracan, in grassy spots of the 

 beaches near Akyab. — Fl. Fr. Decb. 



2. H. EAMOSissiMA, Sprcng. Pugill. II. 32, non Bl. {Oldenlandia 

 Iracliypoda, DC. Prod. IV. 424 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 187 ; Oldenlandia 

 diffusa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 423). 



Hab. Not imfrequent along the larger rivers, like Sittang, Irrawadi, 

 etc., also in cultivated lands, from Ava down to Pegu and Martaban. — PI, 

 Fr. DS. 



3. H. BiFLORA, Sm. in Pees Cycl. XVII. 15. {Oldenlandia hiflora, 

 L. sp. pi. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 423 ; Oldenlandia Burmanniana, R. Br. in 

 Wall. Cat. 868 ; Miq. PL Ind. Bat. II. 189 ; Oldenlandia lierhacea, DC. 

 Prod. IV. 425 ; Bth. Fl. Hongk. 151 ; H. diffusa, Willd. sp. pi. I. 566). 



Var. a. GENUiNA, flowers by 2 — 3 on very slender pedicels. 



Var. y8. uniploea, flowers solitary on a very slender pedicel. 



Var. y. GEAMiisricoLA, CS". graminicola, Kurz in Trim. Journ. Bot. 

 1875. 326), leaves narrower and stiffer ; flowers solitary on very slender 

 axillary pedicels, or by twos and slenderly peduncled ; corolla 2 lin. long or 

 somewhat longer ; style exserted. 



Var. S. COETMBOSA, {Oldenlandia corymhosa, L. Herb. ; DC. Prod. IV. 

 426 ; Oldenlandia ramosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. II. 445 ; Wight. Icon, 

 t. 822 ; DC. Prod. IV. 426), flowers by 2—3 and cymose umbellate by 3—7. 



Hab. Common in agrarian lands on river-banks, along road-sides, &c., 

 also in grassy spots in the leaf- shedding forests, all over Burma ; var. /?. 



