Oldenlcmdia.] lxxt. eubiaceje. (J. D, Hooker.) 71 



much shorter than the campauulate corolla, capsule broadly turbinate, crown 

 hemispheric. 



Mabtaban ; at Moulmein, Lobb, Parish. 



Whole plant 4-6 in., very flaccid ; stem almost filiform. Leaves J-1 J in. ; petiole 

 very slender. Ci/mes shortly pednncled, terminal, with sometimes very reduced ones 

 in the lower axils. Capsules the smallest of the genus, with very obscure calyx- 

 teeth. 



DOUBTFUL INDIAN SPECIES. 



O. CAPiiiAEis, DC. I. 0. 426, is probably 0. eorymhosa, L. 



0. LACTEA, Cham. 4- Schlecht. in Lianaa, 1829, 159 (Gerontogea) ; DC. I. c. 427, 

 is quite undeterminable. 



O. ? HiSPiDA, DC. I. c. 428. Hedyotis hispida, Roth Nov. Sjp. 96, is also undeter- 

 minable. 



0. ? DEPBESSA, Willd. 8p. i. 675 ; DC. I. c. 429. Hedyotis depressa, Boem. § Sch., 

 is probably 0. corymbosa. 



22. A.NOTXS, DC. 



Herbs, prostrate or ascendinpf, rarely erect ; stipules usually membranous or 

 with marginal bristles. Caly.v-tvhe short; lobes 4, with broad intervening 

 sinuses. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped ; lobes 4, usually shorter than the 

 tube, valvate in bud. Stamens 4, on the mouth of the corolla ; anthers included 

 or exserted. Ovary 2- rarely 3-4rcelled ; style filiform, stigmas 2-4 linear ; 

 ovules few or rarely solitary in each cell, on placentas ascending from near the 

 base of the septum. Capsule didymous or laterally compressed, crown produced 

 between the calyx-lobes, loculicidally 2-valved at the top, rarely indehiscent, 

 cells 1- or few-seeded. Seeds peltate boat-shaped or rarely plano-convex, testa 

 very rarely winged, coarsely pitted; embryo clavate in horny albumen. — 

 — DisiEiB. Species about 25, tropical Asiatic and Australian, with 1 American. 



Sect. I. Euanotis. Capsule turgid, dehiscing loculicidally by a broad 

 top above the calyx-teeth. 



* Perennials. 



1. A. Ingrrata, Wall. Cat. 863, in part (Hedyotis); root perennial, 

 branches stout elongate diffuse glabrous or hairy at the nodes, leaves petioled 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate puberulous above and beneath, nerves numerous, 

 stipiJes with many long bristles, cymes terminal and subterminal, flowers 

 crowded, calyx-teeth large, capsules shortly pedicelled hemispheric didymous, 

 cells many-seeded. Hedyotis stipulata, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6195, in part. 



Moist places in the Tempeeate Himalaya, from Nipal, WaUich, to Bhotan, Griffith, 

 alt. 4-8000 ft. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft. 



Stem 2-3 ft., straggling, rooting at the nodes below, brittle. Leaves 1^-3 in., 

 membranous, blackish when dry; nerves 8-10 pair; stipular bristles hairy, ^ in. 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled, white. Corolla-tiihe ^ in. long, broad, lobes oblong, 

 glabrous or hairy. Capsules glabrous or hairy. — Whole plant foetid. 



2. A. grracilis, Hook. f. ; very slender, diffuse, stem glabrous or pubes- 

 cent, leaves petioled ovate acuminate sparsely hairy above and beneath, stipules 

 bristly, cymes axillary and terminal once or twice unequally 2-3-chotomously 

 forked with capitate clusters of glabrous flowers, calyx-teeth lanceolate recurved. 



Temperate Suckim and E. Nipal, alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. H. Khasia Mts., at 

 Moflong, alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D. H. ^ T. T. 



A very slender perennial, with the stem rooting for a considerable length ; inter- 

 nodes long. Leaves I-I4 in., membranous, dark above when dry, paler beneath, 



