Spermacoce.] txxV. etjbiace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 201 



flat or waved, capsule hispid or pubescent, seeds oblong granulate opaque. 

 Moxb. Fl. Ind. i. 373 ; Wall. Cat. 825 ; W. 8; A. Pi-odr. 438 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 111. S. articularis, Linn. f. ; Roxb. I. c. 372 ; Wall. Cat. 827 ; 



W. Sr A. I. c. ; Kwz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 137. S. scabra, Wittd. ; Roxb. 

 I. c. 371 ■,Wall. Cat. 824. S. hirta, Rottler in Nov. Act. Berol. 1803, 96. S. 

 longicaulia. Wall. ; avana, Wali. ; ramosissima. Wall. ; and tubularis, Br. in 



Wall. Cat. 826, 828, 829, ^Q.—Burm. Tkes. Zeylan. t. 20, f. 3. Rheede Sort. 



Mai. ix. t. 76. 



Throughout India, from the Western Himalaya at Simla, ascending to 3000 ft. to 

 AssAsi, and southwards to CfirLON and Sinqapoee. — Distbib. S. China, Malayan 

 Archipelago. 



J?ooi annual or perennial ; branches 6-14 in., ascending, stout, 4-angled, scabrous 

 hirsute or glabrous. Leaves J-1^ by ^— | in,, often rounded at the tip, rigidly coria- 

 ceous, pale when dry, margins sometimes thickened and cartilaginous, usually very 

 seabrid aboTe ; nerves rarely impressed. Ffouicrs 4-6 in a whorl ; bracteoles filiform, 

 equalling the calyx. Calyx-teeth linear-lanceolate. Corolla ^-\ in., blue or white. 

 Stigmas 2, very short. Capsule pubescent or hispid, rounded at the base. Seeds very 

 variable, ^-^ in. long, narrow or broad. — A maritime Carnatie form has very hairy 

 branches and stout waved apiculate leaves with cartilaginous edges ; it is Boxburgh's 

 typical S. hispida, and passes by insensible gradations into other forms. 



4. S. scaberrima, Blume Bijd. 946 ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute seabrid above witb deeply impressed nerves, capsule glabrous, seeds oblong 

 granulate sbining. DC. Prodr. iv. 555 ; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 331. 



Malacca, Griffith. — Disteib. Sumatra, Java, Bahca. 



Rather stoui;, 12— 16 in., brown when dry; branches ascending, rather shining, 

 nearly glabrous but seabrid or retrorsely hairy on the angles below the nodes. Leaves 

 I-I4 in., subsessile, rigidly coriaceous, very seabrid above, hardly so beneath; nerves 

 very oblique. Flowers few. Corolla not seen. Calyx-teeth lanceolate. Capsule 

 brown. Seeds small,, oblong, with a large ventral cavity. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



5. BuRMANNi, DC. Frodr. iv. 565. S. corymbosa, Burm. Fl. Ind. 34, non Linn., is 

 undeterminable. 



S. ? PEOcuMBENS, Linn. ; DO. 1. c. is probably a Hedyotis. 



S. ? majYoxiDEA, DC. I. c. Hedyotis fruticosa. Rets Obs. ii. 8, an Linn.? See p. 49. 



88. GIi.lI.IsOKIA, A. Rich. 



Low rigid shrubs. Leaves small, opposite, linear or subulate; stipules 

 usually connate with the petioles into an entire sheath with 2 bristles or obso- 

 lete. Flowers small, solitary, or in simple spiciform cymes, white. Calyx-limb 

 g-S-toothed, dilated after flowering into a scaiious creuate wing or feathery 

 bristles. Corolla funnel-shaped, throat naked; lobes 4-5, valvate in bud. 

 Stamens 4-5, in the throat or tube of the corolla, filaments short; anthers 

 linear-oblong. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, arms 2 

 short ; ovules 1 in each cell on the centre of the septum, amphitropous. Fi-uit 

 ovoid, of 2 terete indehiscent cocci crowned with the enlarged calyx. Seeds 

 oblong, grooved ventraUy, albumen horny; cotyledons flat, radicle slender 

 inferior. — Distkib. Species 10, N. African and W. Asian. 



1. G. calycoptera, Javh. Sr Spach III. PI. Or. i. 147, t. 80 ; glabrous, 

 leaves linear, stipules of the floral leaves minutely 6-8-toothed, flowers spicate, 

 fruit with erect wings. Bcdss. Fl. Or. iii. 15. Spermacoce calyptera, Dene, 

 Flor. Sinaic. 29. 



