68 Lxxv. RUBiACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Oldenlandia. 



12. O. aspera, DC. Prodr. iv. 428; stems stout and branches scabiid, 

 leaves in fascicled •whorls erect narrow-linear acute margins revolute, stipules 

 ■with median bristles, capsules solitary or 2-3-nate subsessile on the slender 

 erect branches of the cymes rough globose didymous, calyx-teeth subulate 

 shorter than the corolla-tube. Hedyotis aspera, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 94 ; 



W. 4- A. Prodr. 417 ; Vah. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 115. H. ? elongata, Br. in 



Wall. Cat. 865: G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 627. 



The Punjab, Aitchison. Eohh-kund, and southwards to Mysore, Bottler, &c. — 

 DisTBiB. Tropical Africa. 



A stout annual herb, 6-8 in. high, trichotbmously branched. Leaves 2-3 in.> 

 glabrous aboTe, coriaceous. Cymes branched in fruit, 1-6 in. long ; flowers small, 

 pale blue, ^ in. long, corolla about jj in. diam. Capsules J in. diam. 



13. O. ? senegralensis, Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. iii. 56 ; glabrous 

 or minutely scaberulous, stem extremely slender erect simple, leaves not fascicled 

 linear-lanceolate acimiinate flat or with recurved margins, stipules with lateral 

 bristles, cymes in a very loose open terminal panicle with divaricate very long 

 capillary peduncles and pedicels, calyx-teeth subulate much shorter than the 

 slender corolla-tube, coroUa-lobes acuminate, capsules hemispheric. Kohautia 

 senegalensis, JSndl. Atakt. t. 23. 



Chota. Nagpoee ; Hazaribagh, alt. 2200 ft., C. B. Clarke. — Disthib. ? "W. Tropical 

 Africa. 



Annual, 8-16 in. high; stem wiry, terminating in a wide spreading very thin 

 very few-flowered pyramidal paniculate cyme, with capillary pedicels 1-2 in. long. 

 Fhwtrs very small. Capsules ^ in. diam., the minute subulate teeth very distant. — 

 Easily confounded with 0. diehotoma, but distinguished by the divaricate cyme- 

 branches, corolla, and larger capsules. I refer it with hesitation to the Senegal plant, 

 which has an equally open pyramidal cyme and long-pedicelled flowers, and of which 

 there is a variety with sessile or short pedicelled flowers. The corolla is much shorter 

 in the Indian plant, but the specimens are too few for a strict comparison. 



14. O. retrorsa, Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 12; stem retrorsely scabrid, leaves in 

 fiiscicled whorls short linear-oblong obtuse flat scabrid, stipules with median 

 bristles, cymes glabrous spreading, capsules sessile and pedicelled didymous, 

 calyx-teeth much shorter than the long slender corolla-tube, corolla-lobes short. 



Scikoe; near Kurrachee, Stocks. — Distbib. Arabia. 



SiocJc woody, branched from the base; branches 12-18 in., slender. Leaves J-1 

 in. ; nerves indistinct. Mowers scattered on the long cyme-branches. Corolla-tiibi 

 J in., glabrous. Capsule | in. diam., glabrous. 



15. O. gracilis, DC. Prodr. iv. 431 (Kohautia) ; stem below scaberu- 

 lous or glabrate, leaves not fascicled narrow linear acuminate glabrous flat, 

 stipules truncate, cyme-branches slender, capsules pedicelled obovoid globose or- 

 hemispheric, coroUa-lobes linear. Hedyotis gracilis, Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind.y 

 ed. Carey ^ Wall. i. 371 ; Cat. 843. H. stricta, Wall, in As. Res. xiii. 369. 

 H. fusca. Ham. in Don Prodi: 134. H. aspera, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 32. 

 Kohautia sp., Griff. Notul. iv. 265 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 477. 



Hilly districts of India. Tbopicai, Himalaya, alt. 1-5500 ft., from G-arwhal ta 

 Sikkim, Birma, and plains of N. Benoax. Belqaum, Bitchie ; Travancoke, Beddome. 

 — DisTEiB. Ava. 



Slender, erect, 6-12 in., sparingly branched. Leaves erect, 2-3^ by Jj-i in.j 

 nerves indistinct. Cyme-branches spreading in flower, erect in frnit; pedicels very 

 slender. Corolla g in., brown. Capsules \eTj variable in length, ^-J in. 



16. O. stricta, JUnn. Mant. 200; slender, glabrous, difiijsely branched, 

 leaves from linear-lanceolate and flat to almost filiform with recurved mai^ns, 

 stipules truncate, cyme-branches long slender, calyx-teeth subulate not equalling' 



