130 TAXT. EUBiACEa;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Knogiici,- 



NiLGHiEi and SnErAGHEBKY HiLis, Wight, &e. 



Rigid ; stems 8-18 in., terete. Leaves 2-3 by \ in., rigidly corijiceons, pale brown 

 •when diy, complicate ; stipules erect, triangular-lanceolate, often quite entire. Cyme— 

 brandies puberalous or glabrous. Fruits apparently angled, somewhat laterally com* 

 pressed, shortly pedicelled, as broad as long. 



6. K,. brachycarpa, Br. in Wall. Cat. 821 ; more or less puTjescent^ 

 stem with 2 lines of pubescence, leaves sessile linear-oblong olituse, stipules 

 entire or 3- or more-olei't, cymes open or capitate, fruits short didymous trun- 

 cate. K. luacrocarpa, Kwz in Journ. As. Soe. 1877, ii. 138. K. Isevis, DC. 

 Prodi: iv. 570. Spermacoce Brunonis, Wall. Cat. 822. S. Isevis, Roxh. Hort.. 

 Bang. 10, Fl. Ind. 1368 ; Wt. le. t. 193. S. Koxburghii, Spreng. Syst. i. 404. 



Teopicai, Himaiaya; Kumaon, alt. 3500-4000 ft., BlinJcworth, &c. ; Nepal,- 

 Hamilton. Behar ; top of Parus-nath, alt. 4000 ft,., Anderson. Fegtj, M' Clelland ; 



MiETABAN, Kwrz. 



An erect strict herb, 2-4 ft., internodes long; stem slender or robust; more or- 

 less hairy or glabrate, with always 2 more or less distinct lines of pubescence. Leaves 

 2-4 by J-f in., usually quite sessile and minutely pubescent on the margins and' 

 nerves beneath, more rarely elsewhere, base acute or rounded, pubescence of midrib' 

 continued down the stem ; stipules pubescent, upper often entire. Cymes, if branched^ 

 main branches pubescent in 2 lines, the smaller puberulous ; when capitate often 

 tomentose ; flowers small. Calyx-teeth very small, obtuse, one larger. Fruit as in 

 K. Wightiana. — I suspect this to be Eoxbnrgh's Sp. lavis; it is the only "interior of 

 Bengal " plant at aU answering to his description and drawing, from which it diffexs- 

 in the hairiness and large flowers. The Jfipal and Bengal specimens have open 

 cymes, the Kumaon ones globose terminal and sessile axillary heads, like Sedyotis ; 

 the Pegu ones have long brachiate branches with trichotomous terminal peduncles- 

 bearing capitate cymes at their ends. 



tt One or two calyx-lobes in fruit much elongate, subulate, 



6. K.. plantag'inea, Wall. PI. As. Rar. 27, t. 32; Cat. 818; hirsute^ 

 subscapose, leaves sessile linear-oblong obtuse or subacute, stipular bristles very 

 short or 0, flowers capitate, fruits racemose, merioarps keeled with 1 or 2 

 elongate calyx-teeth. I)C. Frodr. iv. 570 ; Kum in Journ As. Soc. 1877, ii. 138.. 



Pegc at Prome, Wallich ; rare and sporadic, Kurz. 



Rootstocle thick, tortuous, woody, giving off short woody leafy branches, from 

 which the very slender simple flower-bearing stems arise. Leaves ou the stem 3-5 

 by f-i in. ; softly hairy on both surfaces, green when dry ; stipules usually reduced 

 to a truncate sheath. Flowering stems 10-16 in., softly hairy, each bearing one or 

 two vea-y distant pairs of small leaves 1 in. long, apparently without stipules, sparingly 

 trichotomously branched at the tip, each branch bearing a head of flowers which 

 elongates into a spike or raceme of distant fruits several inches long. Calyx-teeth 

 subxiiate, one or two much elongate and exceeding the mericarps. Corolla ^ in. long, 

 pale blue. I^uit (in Wallich's flgure) ^ in., apparently flattened, with keeled meri- 

 carps, the elongated calyx-tooth often much exceeding the fruit, 



7. K.. zeylanica, Linn.; DC. Frodr. iv. 569; glabrous or glabrate, 

 leaves shortly petioled ovate or ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, stipules entire or 

 with nearly glabrous bristles, flowers capitate or spicate, fruits spicate, mericarps 

 dorsally rounded and keeled. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 13, f. 2 ; A. Rich, in Menu 

 Soc. Hist. Nat. Far. v. t. 15 ; W. ^ A. Frodr. 440, excl. syn. K. stricta. 



Ceylon ; common in the southern part of the island. 



A small leafy rigid annual ? ; stem erect or ascending, and branches terete, smooth 

 and scabrid abore. Leaves 1-2 by \-\ in., narrowed at both ends, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, margins recurved. Spikes and flowers glabrate or hispid, when fruiting some- 

 times 4 in. long and quite simple. Corolla-tube very slender. Fruit ^ in., broadly 

 ovoid, the long calyx-tooth equalling the mericarp, glabrous. 



