547 
(15) A. umpertata. (Lam. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 413. 
Syn. H. hispida, Roth.—-H. Indica, Roem. and Schult,—Olden- 
landia umbellata, Linn. Dec. srod, IV. p. 426.—Rodxd. fl. Ind. I. 
yg. 421. 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. L. t. 3.—Pluk. t. 119. f. 4, 
Spec. Cuan. ‘Suffruticose, erect or diffuse, slightly scabrous: 
leaves opposite or verticillate, linear, paler beneath, margin reeurv- 
ed: stipules ‘ciliated with bristles: peduncles ‘alternate, axillary, 
bearing a short raceme: partial peduncles, 1-3- flowered : eapsule 
globose, with a wide dehiscence: flowers white. 
Peninsula. Much cultivated on the sheres of Coromandel where 
the rout is used as a red dye for cotton cloth. 
(16) H. azava. ( KoenJ 
Tdent. W.& A. prod. I. p. 413. : 
Syn. Gonotheca Blumei, Dec. prod. IV. p. 429 (?) 
Spec. Cuan. Annual, glabrous: leaves narrow-oblong, tapering 
at the base: flowers short-pedicelled, 1-3 in the alternate axils and 
upon a terminal naked common peduncle, white: limb of the calyx 
in fruit widely cup-shaped, 4-lobed: lobes roundish-ovate, acute, 
in fruit with the sinus rather acute-angled : capsule shortly-turbi~ 
nate, with two broadish wings and two narrower ones decurrent from 
the points of the calyx-lobes to the middle of the pédicela. 
Cirears. 
(17) H. prrtona. (R. Br.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 413. 
Syn. Oldenlandia biflora, Linn. 
Srec. Cuan. Annual or biennial, glabrous: leaves elliptic-ob- 
Jong, attenuated at the base: flowers pedicelled, white, 2~3-together, 
on longish alternate axillary or terminal peduncles: limb of thé 
éalyx deeply 4-cleft : segments triangular, acuminated, in fruit with 
the sinus rounded: capsule shortly turbinate, with two prominent 
sharp keels and twa less prominent on the apex of thé teeth to itd 
baue. 
Peninsula. 
(18) H. macestosa. (Lam,) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 414. 
_ Syn. Oldenlandia alata, Roxb. ff. Ind. hi p. 421.—O. panica- 
lata, Linn. (?) 
Engrav, Lam. Yl. t. 62. f. 2.—Wight’s Icon. t. 312. 
