444 LXIX, RUBIACE, [Oldenlandia 
2-celled ; cellsmany-ovuled ; style filiform ; stigma obsolete, flattened- 
bilobed ; capsule obovoid, sub-didymous, crowned with the persistent 
limb of the calyx, dehiscing loculicidally with a transverse chink 
within the limits of the calyx-limb ; seeds very numerous, angular, 
dark brown or obscurely orange-coloured. Among crops or plantations 
of Manihot utilissima, especially on a sandy soil; fr. and almost past 
fl. end of Dec. 1856. No. 3066. 
MossamMEpEs.—An annual herb, scarcely: a foot high, branched from 
the base, glaucescent ; flowers white ; corolla-tube long ; limb quadrifid, 
milk-white. In sandy places at the river Bero, abundant ; fl. and fr. 
June 1859. No. 3067. 
Perhaps not distinct from O. aspera DC., to which O. strwmosa 
Hiern, J.c., p. 58, has been referred. 
11. 0. subverticillata K. Schum., Zc, p. 419. 
Hvitia.—An annual, erect herb, 1 to 3 ft. high, virgately branched ; 
stipules 2- to 4-setose ; flowers sub-opposite, distantly spicate ; corolla 
salver-shaped, of a lurid-violet colour; limb long, tetragonal, 
widened below the limb on account of the included anthers ; lobes of 
the limb 4, ovate-elliptical, muticous. Among crops, especially of 
Phaseolus and Zea Mays, also at roadsides, in sandy places, abundant ; 
fl. and fr. 27 March 1860. No. 5321. 
To this species, which is perhaps not distinct from O. papillosa 
K. Schum., apparently belongs the following No. :— 
Punco ANDONGO.—An annual, erect, slender, branched herb, 1 to 2 
feet high ; flowers from whitish to yellowish. Among low bushes 
between Mutollo and Candumba ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 3040. 
12. 0. caffra Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. Pl. Afr. p. 360 (1837) ; 
Hiern., le., p. 58. 
AmBRiz.—A herb, perhaps perennial ; rootstock thick, becoming 
woody ; stems much branched; leaves linear; stipules subalate-laciniate. 
In rocky places by the river Ongo, Margueriti Mossul ; fl. and fr. Nov. 
1853. No. 3037. 
Punco AnpoNnGo.—A slender, annual or perhaps biennial herb, with 
whitish flowers verging towards a violet tinge. In sandy thickets 
between Cazella and the river Lutete ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No.3036. 
Houi.ia.—F lowers small, white. In rocky places among short bushes, 
near Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. Flowers white, with the tube a 
little reddish. In pastures flooded in the rainy season ; fl. and fr. end 
of Jan. 1860. A perennial, czspitose, erect herb; stems filiform ; 
leaves linear ; stipules pauci-setose; corolla white-violet or purple, its 
tube long, ventricose below the limb; lobeselliptical. In moist meadows 
ae i river of Lopollo, abundant ; fl. and fr. 27 and 28 March, 1860. 
o. 3038. 
13. 0. herbacea Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 11 (1814). 
Hedyotis herbacea L., Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 102 (1753). H. Heynii 
Br. in Wall. List, n. 867. O. Heynei Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. p. 187 
(1856); Hiern, Zc, p. 59. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A very graceful, bright-green, annual herb, with 
very small white flowers, representing in the tropics the genus Galium 
of the temperate zone. By the Ambaca road, near Canailo; abundant, 
but in few places ; fl. and fr. beginning of April 1856. At the borders 
of thickets between Ponte de Luiz Simoes and Camilungo, one specimen; 
fl. and fr. April 1855. No. 3055. 
