Hedyotis.'] lxxv. rdbiace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 63 



times 1 in. diam. Cytnes glabrous or sparsely hairy, more or less umbellate, usually 

 dense-flowered and rounded, sometimes quite capitate. Corolla-Me variable in length, 

 iobes and throat usually densely woolly. Capsule ellipsoid, cells about 4-seed6d. — In 

 a form {H. marginata, Thw. mss., N. 3935), from Kotteyagalla, alt. 6000 ft., the 

 leaves are ciliolate, the flowers in dense heads, the calyx-teeth longer, lanceolate, and 

 the corolla-lobes glabrous except at the base. 



17. K. Gardnerl, Thioaites Enum. 142 ; glabrous, leaves sessile recurved 

 _ lanceolate acuminate, nerves very indistinct, stipular sheath very broad, panicle 



«rect terminal elongate pyramidal, calyx-tube produced and together with the 

 lanceolate teeth eq\iaUing the capsule. 



Ceylon ; Adam's Peak, Gardner. 



I have seen but one specimen of this remarkable species, which has much the 

 habit of a South Brazilian Eryngiwm. ; it consists of a stout eylindric stem 6 in. long, 

 clothed with somewhat corky white remains of the stipules, and bears several sub- 

 terminal crowded rosettes, about 6 in. diam. of recurved yellowish when dry leaves, 

 and a very stout erect branched panicle, 8 in. high by 4 broad, with distant opposite 

 3-chotomously divided flowering branches. The panicle is evidently a last year's one, 

 and is white with age. Leaves S-SJ by \ in., complicate, very coriaceous, their bases 

 concealed by the remains of the large stipules. Capsules sessile, turbinate, § in. 



*** Serbs, alii annual) with termincd panicled or subumbeUed cymes, small 

 JUmers, and globose capsules ; stipules very small, 



18. K. 'WTallicbli, Kurz in Jmm. As. Soc. 1876, ii. 136; a slender 

 sparingly hairy or hispid annual, leaves subseasile ovate or elliptic acute, stipules 

 subulate ciliate, cymes excessivdy 3-chotomously branched, pedicels long slender, 

 flowers minute, capsule globose with minute calyx-teeth. H. galioidea. Wall. 

 Cat. 866. 



Tbnasseeim, Cromee, &c. ; Nicobar Islands, Kurs. — Distbib. Borneo. 



Stem trichotomously branched from the base ; branches acutely 4-angled, all 

 floriferous. Leaves -j-f in., in remote pairs, ciliate; nerves few, slender. Pedicels 

 spreading, often 2-3-nate. Flowers about ^ in. long. Capsules \ in. diam., cells 

 about 6-seeded. Seeds microscopic, angled, smooth. — Possibly an Oldenlandia, but 

 the capsules dehisce septicidally to the base. 



19. H. eleg'ans, WaU. Cat. 887; quite glabrous, very slender, leaves 

 subsessile ovate-lanceolate long acuminate, nerves very obscure, stipules small 

 very broad acute or cuspidate, flowers sessile on the branches of tenninal and 

 axillary subumbellate cymes, calyx-teeth obtuse. 



Tbnasseeim, Gomez, Heifer. 



Probably perennial, bright green when dry ; stem very long and slender, terete, 

 simple or sparingly branched. Leaves in distant pairs, 2-4J by 1-1| in., narrowed 

 into short petioles, margins flat. Cymes long-peduncled umbellately or 2-3-choto- 

 mously branched from above two linear or oblong bracts; branches l-»3 in. long, 

 spreading or divaricate, rather stout. Flowers very shortly pedicelled, J in. long. 

 Capsules ^ in. diam., crowned with the triangular obtuse calyx-teeth ; cells about 

 4-seeded. — This resembles a species of Hance, No. 11,230, which has broader less 

 .acuminate leaves and pedicelled flowers ; also very near the Chinese H. acutangula, 

 which has acutely angled stem and sessile leaves. 



20. K. Kelferi, Sook.f.; quite glabrous, leaves subsessile ovate obtuse 

 -or subacute nerveless margin recurved, stipules small broad, cymes small ter- 

 minal shortly peduncled, branches short, capsules subsessile, calyx-teeth very 

 short obtuse. 



Tenasseeim or the Andaman Islands, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 2909). 



A small species, black in drying; branches stiif, 4-angled. Leaves sometimes 



