Oldenlandia. RUBIACE-E. o 



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landia angustifolm. Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 56, & Man. ed. 2 —Barrens, lUinois to Kansas, and 

 TeuUfSjfe tci Florida and Texa^. 

 — - Vax. fllifolia. Oiffus.-. di.-posed to be lignt-fient at l.a>e : cauline leaves m.jstlv fili- 

 f.au]- flowers and capsuli-s smaller, more pedunculate. — O/'A /i/anrf/a angusOJolia, Cliapm. 

 Fl. ISl. — Rocky pine barrens near the coajt, Florida. In Texas passiui' into the oruinarv 

 form. 



Var. rigidiuscula. A span to a foot high, stouter: lea^es mc-tl\ rigid, from linear 

 to lanceolate : floweiv disposed to be irluinerati- and sessile, but s..i,ie jie^lttnculate. — .•>. and 

 ^^'- Texas, Pawer, Haiard, ic. Coast of E. Fk.rida, Uwjd. (ilex.J 



§ '2. Er.EicoTi^. Fiuticose or fruticulose : leaves setaceous or acerii-e--linear, 

 rigid, fascicled: flowers (purplish i and seeds nearly as in the last precediiii; stil.- 

 division. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. iii-j. 



H. fasciculata, Gr-iy, 1. c. A span to a foot or more high, decidedly shmbbv. with rioid 

 and tcjituous spreadiui; brandies, glabrous or hirteUr-j.nHernlent : stipules ver\- sb. irt: 

 leaves subulate-linear, thiekish, -1 to 4 lines long, much fasdeled : flowers eymnkise, sli..rr- 

 pedicelled: corolla 2 or 3 Knes loug, between salverform and funnelform, the tube some- 

 times hardly or senuetimes twice longer than the l ibes : capsule barely a line long, about 

 one-tliird free : seeds 4 or 5 iu each cell, elongated-oljlong. barely concave on the ventral 

 face. — Includes some of Bedijotis stenopliyUa or OldtiJandia angustifoUa, var. paniflora of 

 Gray, PI. Wright, i. i ii. — S. W. borders of Texas and adjacent Xew Mexico, Bigelow, 

 Wright, G. E. r»s.;j/. (Adj. ilex.. Palmer.) 



H. acerosa, Gray, 1. c. A span or two high, fruticulose, tufted, with slender asrei.Uur.' 

 branches, minutely hispidulous-pn' descent or glabrate, \ery leafy throughout: sri pules short, 

 commonly with a median cu-p : leaves acictdar-setaeeous. 3 to 3 lilies long: calvx-lobes 

 similarly setaieems : flowers -c— ile : coroBa jmrpHsh, salverform with sliu Inly dilated throat : 

 its slender tube 3 or 4 lines long, much exceeding the ovate lobes ; caj-sule globular, over a 

 line long, about a quarter part free, much overtopped by the acicular caly.x-lobes ; cells 

 12-20— eeded: seeds roundish, with small ventral exea\ation- — ll'di/otis (Ereiee'i's) acevj^u. 

 Gra3", PI. Wright, i. ^1. Oldenlandia acerosa. Irray. PI. Wiiglit. ii. fi7. ?iI'iUostoma acerosa, 

 Hemsl. Biol. C entr.-Am. Bot. ii. 31. — High plains and hills, -s W. Texas, and adjacent 

 Xew Mexico, IT.i ■/,', ic. (Adj. Mex., first coU. by Gregg.) 



5. OLDENLANDIA, Plum. (Br. H. B. OhK aland. \ —^SlonXy suttrop- 



ical and humble herbs, with inconsjiicuous wliite or whitish flcuvers. — Xov. 



Gen. 42. t. 36. cV- PI. Am. eJ. Burm. t. 212. f. 1 ; L. Gen. ed. 1, o>\2 ; Benth. Oc 



Huok. Gen. li. .3'^. 



* Corolla salverform, surpassinL: the calyx: flowers cyniose : calrx-lobes disrani in fruit. 



O. Greenei, Grat. Krect annual, panictdately branched, a span or more high, L'la'rus 

 leaves spatulate-linear or broadly linear with narrowed Tase (the larger "l- s inch i.Dir! : 

 flowers sessile in the forks and along the lax I'raiiLlj^s ed' the pedunculate cyme : calyx-teeth 

 triangular-subulate, about the length of the turbinate tube: corolla less rban 2 lines L i.i; 

 with tube longer than its own lobes and those of the cali.'x: caj.fsule quadrangnlar-hemi- 

 spilieiicM. or at liist some^\ hat turbinate : seeds moderately angled. — Proc Am. Acad. 

 xi.\. 77. — l^inL's AliMs Abinntains Xew Mexicj. Greene. Huachuca ili.'untains. >, Arizona, 

 Ltiiuiion. 



* * CoroUa rotate, shorter than the calyx-li>bes. inc'insr'ieuons: capsuk- romided at base : stipules 

 mostly bimucronate or bicuspidare : calyx-teeth ap[ir'.'xiniate at base: diffuse low herbs; fl. 

 summer. 



O. Boscii, Chapm. a span or so high from a perennial root, diffusely spreading, slender, 

 glalirons : leaves linear with attenuate base, inch 'jr less Icng. obscurely one-nerved : flowers 

 few or scilirary and nearly -essile at the axils: calyx-teerh l>roadly snbulare. rather sheiner 

 than the capsule. —Fl. Isl. Hed^/o'.is Bofci DC. I.e. 420: Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii.41. — Low 

 or wet ground, S. Carolina to Arkansas and Texas. 



O. glomerata, Michx. a span to a foot high from an annual roijt. erect or soon diflhse, 

 freely branching, somewhat hirsutnlous-pubescent : leaves from ovate to oblong, thinnish. 



