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Hab. Ava hills east of Bhamo (J. Anderson). — Fr. Octob. 

 19. H. SCABEA, Wall. Cat. 880. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests from Martaban down to 

 Upper Tenasserim. — Fl. Fr. April ; Aug. 



Doubtful Species. 



1. H. argentea, Wall. Cat. 858 ; Walp. Eep. II. 502. 

 Hab. Ava, banks of the Irrawadi. 



2. H. Merguensis, Hf. in Bth. and Hf. Gen. PL II. 57. 

 Hab. Tenasserim, Mergui (Griff.). 



Scleromitrion, WA. 



Conspectus of Species. 

 Suhg. 1. Eu- Scleromitrion. {Fergusonia, Hf. ? ) Capsule locullcldally separating 

 into 2 many-seeded cocci. Calyx more or less ohovoid, crowned by the converging 

 calyx-liml). Stigmatic lohes 2. Diffuse perennials. 



* Flowers in terminal sessile heads or clusters. 



Flower-heads half-included in the embracing bases of the involucre-like uppermost 

 leaves ; calyx-teeth large, S. coronarium. 



* * Flowers in axillary clusters or heads. 



X All parts glabrous or nearly so. 



Leaves linear, not nerved, quite glabrous ; flowers in dense clusters ; calyx-tube gla- 

 brous or nearly so ; capsule glabrous or shortly hispid, S. rigidum. 



Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong ; flowers by 2 — 3 or few in the leaf-axils ; capsule gla- 

 brous, 'S'. nitidum, 



X ■ X All parts, more especially the stems and capsule, more or less short- 

 ly hispid. 



All parts, also the leaves, shortly scabrous-pubescent ; capsule ovoid, about a line long 

 or longer, • ,, S. hispidum. 



Stem shortly hispid ; leaves glabrous above, minutely puberulous beneath ; corolla half 

 the size, pubescent at the throat ; capsule globular (like in Oldenlandid)^ with short 



calyx -lobes, • 8. paradoxum. 



Subg. 2. Tetragijneia, Miq. {Alloeophania, Thw.). Capsule separating into 2 cocci 



which again separate into twos. Stigmas or stigmatic lobes 4. 



Stigmas capitate ; leaves not rugose, sparingly hirsute above, S. decipiens. 



Stigmas linear, almost spreading ; leaves rugose, above glabrous or nearly so, S. rugosum, 



1. S. COEONARIUM, {Hedyotis coronaria, Wall. Cat. 856). 

 Hab. Tenasserim, Attaran (Brandis) ; Tavoy (Wall.) — Fl. Oct. 



2. S. tetbandetjm, {Bondeletia tetrandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 524 ; 

 Sedyotis onacropliylla, Wall. Cat. 8il ; Miq. 1. c. 178 ; Hedyotis nodiflora^ 

 Wall. Cat. 855 ; Don. Gen. Syst. III. 526). 



Hab. All over Tenasserim. — Fr. Febr. 



3. S. EIGIDUM, {Hedyotis rigida, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 181 ; Meta- 

 bolos rigidus, Bl. By dr. 992). 



Hab. Tenasserim. — Fr. Febr. 



