Anotis.'] Lxxv. EUBUCEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) 75 



Sbci. II. Patzla. JFhiit compressed or flattened, tardily dehiscent or 

 indehiscent. 



* Fi-uit much Jlattened, indehiscent or ohscurdy dehiaoent in the crown. 



15. A . nummularla, Arn. Pugill. Fl. Ind. Or. 23 (Hedyotis) ; perennial, 

 hairy, stems long stout ascending, leaves sessile orbicidar or broadly ovate- 

 obtuse or apiculate glabrous or hairy, stipules of a few bristles or obsolete,, 

 cymes terminal long-peduncled simple or 3-chotomous, flowers capitate, fruit 

 fiat orbicular indehiscent, cells 1-2-seeded. 



Ceylon ; abundant in wet places ; alt. 5-8000 ft. 



Stem 8-18 in. from a creeping base, sparingly branched, nodes often distant. Leaves: 

 uniform throughout the stem, J-| in. diam., coriaceous, usually with crisped hairs,, 

 especiedly beneath. Cymes on stout peduncles 1-4 in., each usually once 3-chotomously 

 divided, branches terminating in a head of flowers |-J in. diam. ; flowers sessile. Calyx-^ 

 teeth short. Fruit with 2 ridges on each face, not at all didymous, contracted below 

 the short calyx-teeth. 



Vab. glabra, Thw. Enum. 142 ; quite glabrous, leaves ovate very coriaceous flat or 

 with recurved margins. H. ^mm/mulariformis. Am. I. e. — I reluctantly follow 

 Thwaites in regarding this distinct-looking plant as a variety of A. nuinmularia. 



16. A. VTlgrlitiana, Wall. Cat. 6194 (Hedyotis) ; perennial, tomentose,. 

 diffuse, leaves sessile or subsessile ovate subacute, stipules short deeply toothed, 

 cymes small terminal and on short axillary branches sessile capitate few-flowered 

 involucrate, fruit orbicular compressed indehiscent 2-4-celled, cells 1-2-seeded.. 

 Hedyotis Wigbtiana and H. Finlaysomana, Wall. Cat. 6194, 6189. Oldenlandia 

 Teysmaniana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 354. Spermacoce compressa, WM. Cat. 

 6187. 



Tempeeate HiMAiAYA, alt. 4-8000 ft., from Nepal to Bhotan. Khasia Mrs., alt. 

 4-5000 ft. Mountains of the Western Peninsula, alt. 5-7000 ft. — ^Distkib. Ava, 

 Malay Islands, Cochin China. 



Stems 2-18 in., leaves clothed with soft curly spreading hairs. Leaves J-1 in.^ 

 variable in breadth. Heads involucrate by 2 leaves. Flowers white blue or purplish, 

 shortly pedicelled. Fruit very small, contracted towards the short calyx- teeth, grooved 

 at the union of the carpels, rugose when dry. — The Western Peninsula specimens are 

 much shorter than the Northern or Eastern. Clarke has observed that the flowers, 

 are white in the 2-eaTpellary, light blue in the 3-carpellary, and blue in the 4- 

 carpellary specimens. 



** Fruit compressed, finally septiddaUy dehiscent. 



17. A. monosperma, W. ^ A. Prodr. 410 (Hedyotis); perennial, 

 slender, diffuse, more or less hairy, leaves petioled small ovate subacute, stipules- 

 with short lateral bristles, cymes small short terminal peduncled sparingly un- 

 equally forked few-flowered bracteate, capsules shortly pedicelled subglobose, cella 

 1-2-seeded. H. monosperma, Wight Ic. 1. 1031. H. mysurensis, Wall. Cat. 882. 

 Oldenlandia mysurensis, G. Don Gen. iSyst. iii. 531. 



NiLGHEREY and Pulney Mts., Heyne, Wight, &c. 



A small-leaved much branched delicate species, more or less clothed with crisped! 

 hairs. Leaves ^-1 in., petiole often half their length. Cymes including the peduncles, 

 rarely J in. long ; flowers minute. Corolla-iitbe broadly funnel-shaped, about twice 

 the length of the subulate calyx-lobes. Capsules ^^^ in. diam., with recurved calyx- 

 teeth, didymous; cells usually 1 -seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, deeply pitted. 



18. A. Rlchardlana, Am. Pugill. PI. Ind. 0;v22 (Hedyotis); peren- 

 nial, difluse, slender, glabrous, or more or less hairy or villous, leaves petioled 

 ovate acute, stipules with long hairy bristles, cymes tei-minal and subterminal oa 



