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Spxc. Cuar. Annual or biennial, diffuse, glabrous: leaves ellip- 
tic-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, attenuated at the base: 
limb of the calyx 4-partite: segments triangular-ovate, acute, dis- 
tant in fruit: capsule shortly turbinate, slightly marked with 4 
acute deourrent angles : flowers pedicelled, white, disposed in long-= 
peduncled naked alternate axillary and terminal racemes: partial 
peduncles 1-3-flowered. 
: Circars. Tanjore, frequent in moist rich soik, Flowering in the 
tainy season. oe 
(19) H. rrinervia. (Roem. & Schult.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I, p. 414, 
Syn. TH. rotundifolia, Dec. prod. 1V. p. 420.—H. serpyllifolia, 
Poir. Dec. l. c. p. 421.—Oldenlandia trinervia, Retz.—QO. repens, 
Burm. 
Engrav. Burm. Ind. t. 15. f. 2. 
Srec. Cuan. Herbaceous, branched, procumbent, rooting near 
the base: stems slender, from glabrous to slightly hairy: leaves 
petioled, roundish-ovate or oval, sprinkled with a few hairs at the 
margin, somewhat 3-nerved: stipules slightly hairy, bipartite : 
flowers short-pedicelled, usually in pairs in the axils of the leaves: 
corolla rotate, 4-partite, glabrous within: tube scarcely any: cap- 
sule hirsutely villous, crowned with the teeth of the calyx. 
In damp soil under the shade of hedges in the Peninsula. Mal. 
wan. Flowering in July. 
(20) H. pumiza. (Linn.) 
Edent, W. & A, prod. I. p. 414, ‘ 
Syn. Oldenlandia pumila, Dec. prod, IV. p. 425.—O. cristalli- 
na, Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 422.—Dee. Ll. c. p. 426. 
Srrc, CHar. Annual, diffuse, glabrous or slightly scabrous: 
leaves from elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, attenuated at the 
base into a short petiole: peduncles solitary, axillary, alternate, 
either about the length of the leaves and 1-flowered or about half 
the length of the leaves and with 2 pedicellate flowers: the pedun- 
cles and pedicels together somewhat longer than the Jeaves: corolla 
shortly tubular, hairy in the mouth: calyx-segments triangular- 
acuminated, in fruit separated by a rather acute angle: capsule tur- 
binate-oblong compressed ; flowers white. 
Peninsula. Monghyr. Flowering in the rainy season. 
(21) H.iyrermepia. (W. & AL) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 415. 
Spec. Cuar. Annual or biennial, diffuse, glabrous or slightly 
scabrous: leaves linear-lanceolate, tapering at both ends: peduncles 
