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Sreé. Cuan. Anhual or biennial, erect or decumbent with ereét 
branches, dichotomous: stems above, and the branches acutely 4- 
angled: Jeaves linear or linear-lanceolate: stipules with short bris- 
tles or truncated; pedicels 1-flowered, axillary, cha in pairs 
in the opposite or alternate axils, shorter than the leaves, much 
longer than the fruit, rigid: corolla infundibuliform: anthers some- 
what included; capsule roundish-ovate, gikbous at the base, crus- 
taceous, opening with a very elevated widely-dehiscent ridge across 
the apex : lips of the opening erect : flowers small, pure white. 
Peninsula, flowering in the rainy season. 
(26) H. pichotroma. (Keen.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. FE. p. 416. 
Syn. H. affinis, Roem. §& Schult.—H. linifolia, Willd.—-H. dif- 
fusa, Spr.—Oldenlandia linifolia, Dec. prod. IV. p. 425.—-O. capil- 
laris, Dec.—O. affinis, Dee.—O., pusilla, Rottl, Dee. U. ¢. p. 428. 
‘ Spec. Cuar. Annual, erect or degumbent with erect branches s 
branches slightly 4-angled, scabrous on the angles: leaves linear, 
attenuated at both ends, flaccid: stipules usually with 2-3 bristles, 
sometimes without any: flowers on long and enapillary pedicels, 
rarely axillary and solitary, sometimes 2-3 from the apex of a slen- 
der elongated pedunele, usually several, arranged in very lax pedun- 
cled axillary or terminal naked racemes: corolla infundibuliform : 
capsule nearly globose, with a not very prominent ridge on the apext 
flowers white. 
Trichinopoly. Travancore. Flowering in the rainy season. 
(27) H. manitima. (Wall.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 417. 
Syn. Oldenlandia stricta, Linn, Mant. p. 200. 
Spec. Cuar. Perennial, diffuse, procumbent, glabrous and 
somewhat glaucous: stems and branches twiggy: leaves linear-lan- 
ceolate, attenuated at both ends: stipules united with the petioles 
into a membranous truneated sheath: flowers pedicellate, alternate 
on the bratiches of longish terminal or subterminal simple or dicho- 
tomously-branched racemes: ealyx-limb 4-partite: corolla funnel» 
shaped: stamens exserted: capsule coriaeeous, oval. 
Sea-coasts in sandy soils in the Southern districts of the Penin- 
sula. 
(28) H. aspera. (Heyne.) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p. 417.--Heyne in Roth. Nov. Sp. p. 
94. 
Syn. Oldeniandia aspera, Dec. prod. 1V. p. 498. 
. Spec, Cuar. Annual, erect, simple, or with few branches, rough 
with minute points: leaves linear-acuminated: stipules membranoug, 
