Hedyotie.'] lxxv. RUBUCEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 63 



•with short bristles. Cymes compound, branches dense. Flowers pedicelled, bluish, 

 mixed -with linear ciliate bracteoles. Corolla-tube and short lobes haiiy, mouth not 

 bearded or yillous. Fruit elongate obconic, apparently indehiscent, very mem- 

 branous. 



54. K. monocepliala, Br. in Wali. Cat. 846 (corrected from macro- 

 ■cephala) ; glabrous or puljendous, flaccid, branched, decumbent, leaves sub- 

 sessile elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, nerves obscure, stipules slender recurved 

 toothed or pectinate, cymes terminal capitate sessile glabrous, calyx-teeth 

 lanceolate longer than the young fruit. 



SiLHET, WalUeh. Assam, Hamilton, Masters ; Upper Assam, Griffith. 



A slender straggling species, dark brown when dry ; branches 4-angled, grooved, 

 the ridges puberulous. Leaves 1-1^ in., base very acute, quite glabrous on both 

 surfaces ; stipules variable, sometimes of one long recurved very slender simple or 

 <;ut bristle, at others with 2 or more long bristles. Cymes J-i in. diam., terminal or 

 rarely on short axillary branches with usually small leaves at their base. Flowers 

 ■quite glabrous, except the corolla-lobes within, larger than in H. scabra, but still 

 small. Eipe fruit not seen. — ^An allied plant from Tenasserim or the Andamans 

 (Heifer, Kew Distrib. 2884) is much stouter, with caudate-acuminate leaves. 

 Specimens from Griffith in Herb. Bentham are marked as from Darjeeling, but are 

 probably from Assam. The species was originally found by Hamilton at Bima^ 

 sherva in 1808 (probably in Assam). 



56. S. stipulata, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6196 and 863 a ; stems lax diifuse 

 rooting below glabrous or puberulous, leaves ovate or lanceolate acute mem- 

 branous, nerves slender, stipules with . long bristles, cymes capitate sessile or 

 peduncled axillary or terminal glabrous, calyx-teeth lanceolate recurved longer 

 than the membranous broadly globose fruit. H. Lindleyana, Hook. mss. in 

 W. 4" -<4. Prodr. 409. Oldenlandia japonica, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Imgd. Bat. ii. 

 194. O.'hixsaia,, lAnn.Jil.; DC. Prodr. 127. ? Anotis capitata, .KbrtA. in JVerf. 

 Kruidk. Arehiv. ii. 151. 



Temperate Hoialaya, alt. 3-8000 ft., from Dalhousie to Bhotan, common. 

 Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. — Distrib. Java, Japan. 



Branches slender, decumbent, 1-2 ft., terete and leaves dark brown when dry. 

 Xeaves |-2 in., variable in width, glabrous or with a few soft scattered hairs above 

 and on the nerves beneath, base acute or rounded ; petiole ^-1 in. ; stipules cut into 

 'filiform bristles nearly to the base. Cymes J-J in. diam. Flowers quite glabrous, 

 pedicelled. Fruit membranous, indehiscent or with a loculicidal fissure on the crown 

 between the calyx-teeth. Seeds many, small, angular and pitted. — Very similar to 

 Anotis iiigmta. 



56. K. Thomsoni, Hook. f. ; annual, short, suberect, much branched 

 from the base, leaves fascicled sessile narrow-linear acute margins recurved, 

 stipules forming a short sheath with the petioles bristly, cymes dense in all the 

 AxUs and tenmnal, calyx-teeth lanceolate recurved longer than the broadly 

 obconic membranous fruit. 



East Bengal ; banks of the Megna and Mahanudde, J. D. H. ^ T. T. 



Stem very short with fibrous roots, branches suberect 4-angled leafy. Leaves f-l 

 by ^ in., spreading and recurved, minutely rough above, midrib strong beneath, 

 rather dilated at the base and united with the stipules into a short membranous 

 sheath, proliferous in the axils ; nerves 0. Flowers pedicelled. Corolla very minute, 

 glabrous, tube and lobes short. F^uit apparently quite indehiscent, but there is a 

 loculicidal furrow between the calyx-teeth, pericarp with raphides (as in H. connata). 

 Seeds very numerous, small, angular, pitted, pale. — A very remarkable little plant, 

 5-6 in. high, blackish when dry, not found by any previous collector, with the habit 

 of an Oldenlandia, but the fruit appears quite indehiscent and the calyx is altogether 

 that of Hedyotis and approaches H. pinifolia. 



