SedyoUs.'\ lxxv. rubiacejE. (J. D. Hooker.) 49 



CooEG, Beddome ; Ceylon, near Colombo, W. Ferguson. 



Branches 1-2 ft. Leaves l-\\ in., and whole plant pale green when dry. CaroUa 

 ^ in. long.— A very singular plant, which I was at first disposed to consider as 

 belonging to Psyckotnea, but which I think now to be closely allied to AUaophania, 

 as I suspected when placing it in that tribe in the " Genera Plantarum." It differs 

 rema,rkably from the other Hedyotidean genera in the form and insertion of the seed, 

 and in the dimerous style with a 4-merous ovary, but is united with them through 

 AlleBophanm. 



20. KEDVOTXS, L. 



_ Herbs, imdei-shmbs or shrubs. Leaves very rarely ternately whorled; 

 stipules free or combined in a bristly sheath. Flowers white or lilac, in ter- 

 minal or axillary open close or capitate cymes. Calyx-lohes 4, acute, persistent, 

 ■without interposed teeth. Cwolla funnel- or bell-shaped; lobes 4, ovate, or 

 linear, valvate in bud. Stamens 4, in the tube or throat of the coroUa. Ovary 

 2-ceUed : style filiform, stigma 2-fld or 2-lobed ; ovules numerous on sessile or 

 pedicelled pkcentaa, attached to the septum at or below the middle. Fruit 

 small, membranous coriaceous or crustaceous, indehiscent or septi- or loculi- 

 cidal or of 2 separable or connate cocci, 2-many-seeded. Seeds plano-convex or 

 angled, testa very rarely winged ; embryo clavate in homy albumen. — Disteib. 

 Species about 80, chiefly tropical Asiatic. 



A very difficult genus to define, a few species being intermediate between it, 

 Atiotis and Oldenlandia. Flowers rarely 5-merous. The solitary ovules on the face 

 of the septum in each cell, and the seeds, distinguish Spermacoce from it ; in habit 

 they are often very similar. 



SiacT. I. Diplophra^^ma. Capsule septicidaUy splitting into two 1-4- 

 (rarely more-) seeded cocci, which dehisce ventrally, top not protruded between 

 the cfdyx-teeth. — Erect or decumbent shrubs or herbs ; stipules various, 



• Erect shrubs/ cymes terminal or axillary, rarely corymbose or panicled, 

 very rarely capitate ; stipules not large and sheathing. 



t Stipules entire or gland-serrate or -cremate, rarely pectinate. 



1. XI. fruticosa, Linn. ; glabrous, branches obtusely 4-angled, leaves 

 petioled lanceolate acuminate, nerves distinct, stipules gland-crenate, cymes 

 terminal panicled, calyx-teeth triangular recurved shorter than the ovoid smooth 

 capsule. W. %■ A. Prodr. 408 ; Bvrm. Ft. Zeyl. t. 107. Spermacoce ? hedy- 

 otidea, DC. Prodr. iv. 555. — Sheede Hort. Mai. iv. t. 67. 



Tbavahcobe Mts., Sotiler, ^c. Ceylon, common up 3000 ft. 



An erect shrub, green when dry. Leaves 2-4 in., coriaceous ; nerves 6-12 pair. 

 Corolla-throat woolly. Seeds 4 in each cell, plano-convex, or concavo-convex. — Wight 

 and Arnott's var. p., with hispid cymes, appears to be H. prainosa; Wallich's 837 J, 

 the same authors refer to this species because it was gathered by Bottler, but 

 Bottler's Herbarium contains Malayan plants, and that in question is H. cwpitellata, 

 Wallich's 837 a, also from Bottler's Herbarium, is H. pruinosa. 



2. K. nZalng^ayl, Hook. f. ; glabrous, leaves shortly petioled lanceolate 

 or ovate-lanceolate acuminate nerveless, stipules entire eglandular, cymes ter- 

 minal panicled, calyx-teeth lanceolate longer than the capsules. 



Malacca ; on Mt. Ophir, Griffith, Maimgay (Kew Distrib. 887). 



A short much branched shrub, green when dry, 12-18 in. Leaves 1-2 in , acuta 

 or rounded at the base, petiole winged. Flowers more crowded than in H.fruticosa; 

 flowers and fruit and seeds similar, except that the calyx-teeth are much longer and 

 lanceolate. 



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