Knoxia.} lxxy. ETjBiACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 120 



base. W. 8f A. Frodr. 439 ; Wt III. t. 128 ; Bala. 8; Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 111. 

 K. teres, DC. Frodr. iv. 669; Wall. Cat. 819, in part. K. exserta, BC.l.c. 

 "K. umbellata, Banlts ; Spreng. Syst. i. 406. K. siimatrensis, Wall. Cat. 6183. 

 K. mollis, Br. in Wall. Cat. 820, not of W. Sf A. K. stricta, Thio. Emm. 162. 

 Spermacoce ? teres and S. exserta, Roxh. Hort. Beng. 10 ; Fl. Ind. i. 367, 368 ; 

 •ed. Carey §■ Wall. i. 373, 374. S. siimatrensis, Betz Obs. iv. 23, e.v Cham. 8f 

 ^Schl. in iJinncea, iii. 316, not of Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 366. ? Ouncea triflda. Ham. 

 in Don Frodr. 135. 



Throughout tropical India, from Garwhal in the Western Himalaya, eastward to 

 ■Sikkim, ascending to 5000 ft., and in the Khasia Mis. to 4000 ft. ; to Ceylon and 

 3IALACCA. — DisTEiB. Malay Archipelago and Tropical Australia. 



An erect slender annual, 1—1 ft. ; stem eylindric or obscurely 4-angled, sparingly 

 -3-chotomously l)ranehed,-iuternodes long. Leaves 3-5 by ^-1 in., pale greenish or 

 brown when dry, narrowed into the short petiole; stipular bristles J in. Flowers 

 -^-^ in., very small, white or purplish. Calyx-teeth minute, triangular, subequal. 

 Corolla-tube hairy within. Fruit ^ in., sessile or shortly pedicelled, l-angled. — I do 

 not doubt this being the Cwncea trifida of Don's Prodromus, though the flowers are 

 ■described as yellow and the fruit as a berry. Eoxburgh's figure of Spermacoce teres 

 differs from his description in the 2- partible fruit and plano-convex seed ; he describes 

 the seed of 8. teres as round, which it should not be. 



** Ripe mericarps either connate, the fruit falling away as a whole with the 

 central columella, or the mericarps separating from one another and falling away; 

 Jrom the columella. 



t Calyx-teeth cdl very small, equal or one rather larger tlvan the rest. 



2. K, mollis, W. Si' A. Frodr. 439, not of Br. ; pubescent villous or 

 tomentose, leaves petioled rarely sessile ovate or lanceolate, stipules with hairy 

 bristles, fruits crowded ellipsoid, mericarps connate and adnatetothe columella. 

 K. corymbosa, Thw. Fnum. 151 ; Schlecht. in Herb. Hohen. n. 991., ? K. atricta, 

 Gaertn. Fruct. i. 122, t. 25. K. teres. Wall. Cat. 819, m^M»-!t. 



Mountains of the "WESTEnN Peninsula, from the Conean southwards, alt. 3-7000 

 ft. Ceylon, WaUcer ; Hangalle, alt. 5000 ft, Thwaites. 



An erect annual?, 1-3 ft., very variable in size; much more robust branched and 

 leafy than K. corymbosa; branches 4-angled. Leaves lJ-5 by ^-1| in., brown when 

 •dry, with often rufous hairs ; petiole ^-J in. Cymes with short spreading branches ; 

 flowers crowded, blueish, ^ in. long. Fmits smooth, terete, glabrous, ^ in. long, 

 black when dry, crowned with the rounded calyx-teeth. — In Ceylon specimens the 

 petiole is 1 in. and very slender, in a specimen from Eitchie the leaves are quite 

 sessile. Gaertner represents the merioarp of his K. stricta (from Ceylon) as sepa- 

 rating and subacute dorsally, as in K. zeylanica, which has, however, very different 

 ■calyx-teeth from Gaertner's figure. 



3. K. Keyneaua, DC. Frodr. iv. 670; glabrous or nearly so, leaves 

 petioled ovate or linear-lanceolate, stipules with long i-igid glabrous bristles, 

 ii'uits racemose linear-oblong, mericarps separating. W. Sf A. Frodr. 440. 

 Spermacoce corymbosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 98 {ex. W. Sr A.), 



SoDTHEBN Mysokb and Caenatic; Dindygul Mts. and Courtallum, Wight. 



Erect, leafy; branches robust, terete, shining. Leaves 2-3 by |-1J in., rather 

 ■feoriaceous, brown when dry, acute or acuminate ; stipular bristles stout, smooth, 4— f 

 in. Cymes puberulous, branches elongating after flowering as in K. corymbosa, buj 

 fruits pedicelled. Fruit pale, narrow, with a groove on each side where the mericarps 

 separate. 



4. K. Wig-htiana, Wall. Cat. 6184; glabrous, slender, leaves sessile 

 linear obtuse recurved, stipules entire or 2-3-cleft, fruits few short didymous 

 truncate, mericarps separating.. W. Sf A. Frodr. 440. 



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