70 Lxxv. BUBUCEJi. (J. D. Hooker.) [^Oldetilandia. 



goose-quill, at others slender and diffuse ; cymes and fruit especially variable, the 

 former in slenderness and length, the latter in size and shape. There are no speci- 

 mens of H. panicidata in Herb. Linn., but as Burman's figure of what he assumes to 

 be Linnaeus' plant is a fair one, I have adopted the name. Roxburgh's O. panietUata, 

 from the Moluccas, with rooting stems and biennial root, must be a different plant. 

 Lamarcks' H. racemosa, usually cited under this, is. figured as having smooth seeds,, 

 and is therefore a Eie-oldmlandia. H. minima, Heyne (Wall. Cat. 877), is a seedling 

 state, apparently, of this species. 



20. O. biflora, Idnn.; W. ^ A. Pi-odr. (Hedyotis); annual, glabrous, 

 diffuse, succulent, leaves petioled elliptic or oblong acute or subobtuse flat, 

 stipules truncate vyith a few points or short bristles, cymes short 1-4-fld., calyx- 

 tube not produced above the ovary, capsules shortly pedicelled turbinate 4- 

 angled base acute. Hedyotis biflora, Wall. Cat. 879. 



Cahnatic, Eottter, Wight, &c. Cetlon, Gardner, Keelart. 



This very closely resembles small specimens of 0. paniciilata, and is distinguished 

 by the cymes seldom having more than 3 flowers, and often reduced to 1, and by the 

 larger frviit, more turbinate and angled, and with usually larger calyx-teeth. — This 

 Brown declares to be the true 0. biflora of Linnaeus, not that of Roxburgh and De 

 CandoUe, which is 0. corytrbosa. 



21. O. alata, Koen. in W. 8r A. Prodr. 413 (Hedyotis) ; glabrous, succu- 

 lent, branches stout, leaves subsessile elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate subacute o.r 

 obtuse, stipules truncate toothed, cymes axillary subcapitate, calyx-tube 4- 

 wiuged produced above the ovary and cupular, capsule large turbinate 4-angled 

 and -winged. 0. pterita, Miq. Fl. Inid. Bat. ii. 193. Hedyotis alata, Koen. in 

 Wall. Cat. 6196. H. pterita, Bl. Bijd. 972. Gonotheca Blumei, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 429 ; Endl. Atakt. t. 22. 



CmcABs, Bottler, Boxbtirgh, Wight. — Distkib. Malay Islands. 



A stout annual, 6-12 in. high, with the habit of branching and foliage of O. 

 panicidata, but the leaves are almost sessile, the cymes reduced to axillary and ter- 

 minal heads, and the capsules are much larger, \ in. long, very shortly pedicelled, 

 surmounted by a cupular 4-lobed prolongation of the calyx-tube, and has 4 lateral 

 wings, of wliich 2 are shorter than the others. — The cellular tissue is full of raphides. 



22. O. nudicaulis, Both Nov. Sp. 95; annual, erect, sparsely hairy, 

 stem furfiu-aceous short naked or with 2 leaves below, leaves 4 in a whorl rarely 

 opposite large membranous elliptic or ovate, nerves distinct, cymes long-peduncled 

 fascicled terminal much dichotomously bmnehed, branches capillary, calyx-teeth 

 minute subulate or shorter than the corolla-tube obscure in fruit, capsule hemi- 

 spheric. 0. rotundifolia, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 530. O. ovatifolia and spergu- 

 lacea, DC. Prodr. iv. 427, 428. Hedyotis scapigera, Br. in Wall. Cat. 881. H. 

 nudicaulis, W. §■ A. Prodr. 416 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 34. H. ovatifolia, 

 Cav. Ic. 573. H. rotundifolia. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6190 (not of DC). H. 

 spergulacea, Kurz in Jowm. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 134. 



Teopicai. Himalaya, from Kumaon to Sikkim, the Khasia Mrs., and Assam, 

 ascending to 5000 ft. Tbavancoee and Maisok. (Not in Ceylon.) — Distrib. Java. 



Much resembling Mollugo midicaulis in the inflorescence. Stem stout, erect, 

 1-2 in., with or without a pair of small leaves, naked to the first whorl of leaves, 

 simple or 3-chotomously forked, each branch usually bearing 4 unequal leaves in a 

 whorl. Leaves shortly petioled, |-2 in., tip obtuse or rounded. Cym^s very open j 

 flowers very small, as are the capsules. 



23._ O. Farishli, Hook. f. ; annual, very slender, sparsely hairy, stem 

 short simple, leaves petioled ovate acuminate membranous, cymes terminal dicho- 

 tomous open few-flowered, peduncles and pedicels capillary, calyx-teeth minuta 



