42 Lxxv. EUBiACEJi. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dmtelldt- 



TbibeIV. kedyotxdeh:. 



14, DEICTEXiXiA, Fm-st. 



A small weak prostrate annual or perennial-rooted kerb. Leaves small;: 

 stipules connate, scarious. Flowers minute, solitary, axillary and in the forks, 

 sessile or pedicelled, white. Calyx-tube glohose; limb tubular, persistent^ 

 CoroUa funnel-shaped, hairy within ; lobes 5, 2-S-toothed, induplicate-valvate. 

 Stamens 5, in the middle of the corolla-tube, filaments short ; anthers linear. 

 Ovary 2-ceUed ; style short, stigmas filiform ; ovules munerous on hemispheric- 

 placentas. Fruit small, dry, globose, 2-celled, indehiscent, many-seeded. Seeds 

 minute, angled, testa dotted. 



1. D. repens, Forst. Cliar. Gem. 26, t. 13; Roxh. Ft. Ind. i. 632; Wall. 

 Cat. 6206 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 405 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 115. Oldenlandia 

 repens, lAnn. Mant. 40. Hedyotis repens. Lam. HI. 1424, not of Don. Lip- 

 paya telephioides, Endl. Atakt. t. 13. 



In moist places throughout Bengal and eastward to Birma, and in both Peninsulas- 

 to Ceylon and Singapore.^DisTEiB. Malayan Islands, N. Australia, Polynesia. 



A straggling weed, stems rooting at the joints. Leaves J in., obovate spathulate- 

 or elliptic, ciliate or glabrous. Flowers i in. Style cleft nearly to the base. Cap- 

 stele ^ in. diam., hispid or glabrous. 



16. ARGOSTEMTCA, Wall. 



Small delicate herbs. Leaves usually membranous, opposite, pairs very- 

 unequal, or falsely whorled ; stipules entire, persistent or obsolete. Flotvers' 

 white, in peduncled cymes Or umbels. Calyx-tube short ; lobes 6, rarely -3-7. 

 Corolla rotate, 4-5-partite, valvate. Stamens 4-5, filaments short; anthers 

 large, free, conniving or cohering, erect or declinate, dehiscing by 1-2 terminal 

 pores, rarely longitudinally. Ovary 2-ceUed ; style filiform, stigma capitellate ; 

 ovules very many on projecting placentas. Capsule coriaceotis or membranous, 

 2-celled, dehiscing at the apex or by an operculum. Seeds minute, angled or- 

 compressed, testa granulate or reticulate ; embryo most minute, in dense fleshy 

 albumen. — Disteib. Species about 40, all from subtropical Asiatic and Malayaa 

 Mts., except one African (which is also Indian). 



* Leaves opposite or whorled. 

 f Flowers 4^merous. 



1. A. sarmentosum, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey %■ Wall. ii. 

 324 ; Cat. 8396 ; leaves sessile or petioled opposite or in whorls of 4 orbicular 

 elliptic or broadly obovate obtuse sparingly pubescent, umbels terminal, calyx 

 pubescent, teeth ovate obtuse, anthers 4 free slender opening by pores. Benn. 

 PI. Mar. Jav. 95. SonerUa angustifolia. Wall. Cat. 4090. 



SuBTKOPiOAL Himalayas, from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 2-5000 ft. Khasia Mts 

 alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. R.iT.T. 



Stems 2 in. to a span, often with filiform very long simple or branched rnnners- 

 from buds below the leaves. Leaves 1-4 in., 4 in a whorl, or in 2 rarely more pairs,, 

 equal or more or less unequal or dissimilar. Umbels simple, 1- many-fld. ; bracts, 

 ovate; pedicels \-^ in., very stout. Flowers white, with a green eye, f in. diam.. 

 Calyx-lobes ovate. Corolla segments acuminate. 



2. A. courtallense, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 22; sparsely pubes- 

 cent, leaves subsessile in whorls of 4 ovate or orbicular-ovate subacute or 

 obtuse base contracted rounded or cordate, umbel terminal simple, calyx-teeth 



