HEDYOTIS. : 
e Faft. Indies. 
Root ‘long, fibrous, copacally annual. 
es branched from the bottom; a {pan high, leafy, angular, 
often rouzh-edged- Leaves an inch long or more, fome- 
what Ralked, lanceolate; narrow, acute, finooth except 
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about the edges, pale beneath. Sup , fringed: 
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with a few flender teeth. Psat “tate rather Ipreading, 
capillary, fmooth, pale, fhorter than the leaves, folitary, 
divided not half way down, each bearing two fma! Ul flowers, 
whofe corolla, acccrding to Burmarin’s account, is reddifh fi 
and two-lipped,. yet nothing can be e certain than that 
the calyx and fruit are thofe of ar pane clofe “ie agreeing 
= thofe of H. pumila, except the capfule being more 
and lefs oval.—The divifion of the flower-ftalks in 
this tpactes is not fo conftant as could be wifhed. We have 
on the fame fpecimen fome as above defcribed, with others 
quite fimple and fingle-flowered; and the latter are either 
folitary or in pairs, or even three tegether, from the fame 
leaf. Such is a fpecimen which Linneus, in his herbarium, 
confounded Ww — his own — ‘andia eer sage de- 
feribed ; edocs not feem to have ed to a 
Poni in any ae his w ras nor is the fpecilic isis taken 
rom i 
16, ‘EL. Jerre Linn. Suppl. 119. eae Symb. 
isle, 2°29: -( Hi. acea; Forfk. Arab. fel. 105. Ol- 
denlandia ftricta ; Line Mant. 200.  Alfine fpergule fo- 
Kis, capitulis brevioribus duris; Pluk, Mant. 9. t. 332. 
— Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, roughifh. Stem weak: 
Panicle cloven, racemofe. Stipulas pointlefs, entire, mem- 
ranous.—Native of Malabar, where, according to Plakenet, 
have it alfo from 'T'ranque- 
pos 
attention. t 
fpreadin g flems, and narrow caves about an inch and_ half 
long, but efpecially by its apne which confifts of 
panicled clufters, forked at r bafe. The corolla is 
P exactly fun ees Sigal capitate, diftant. 
Capfule ciiptie-oblong, {mooth. Segments of the calyx fhort, 
triangular, ere. The habit of this fpecies is like fome- 
- thing sisterke een an Ajperula a and a Stellaria 
17. H. ferpylloides.. Lamarck. Iluftr. 271.—*¢ Leaves 
ovate. Stipulas fringed. Flowers in denfe, feffile, terminal 
clufters,’’ 
is Lamarck’s 
ie = delloreticance appears t 
in& 
18. H. « capenfis. Lamarck. Iluftr. 271. (Oldenlandia 
capenfis; Linn. Suppl. 127. Thunb, Prodr. 29.) —Leaves 
Stems -decum- 
d. ower-ftalke ‘tatteley axillary, ° 
Calyx fringed, nearly as long as the fhort angular 
at Gathered b — at the Cape of Good Hope. 
and by omoe Saw in the i 
aWout a pan long, siascheds {quare, waht ve 
Leaves eas italked, hardly an inch long, verchi and 
— recurved, their u fide, and their ee beneath, 
Stipules, — sak h with minute rope te -a Galium. — 
oh ointed and hat fringed. 
ee s eashone fhorter than the leaves, fometime 
wh Paine {preading, angular. 
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narrow long as the ae 
Sacaee and obtufe. Seg of le e rt or re- 
curved, triangular, keele with briftles, about equal 
ac h to the fhort roundifh fruit, which is {moo 
length 
marked with “aes ribs esr at —" — the keels of the 
Vor. XVII 
Tube of the eal {mall 
calyx he flowers are white. 
difting fe the difiufa, n. 14, as’ Willdenow expreffes his 
having feen both; otherwife their eGerigtibon might feem to 
be neg fufficiently clear of each other. 
. H. tenuifolia. 
be ia not of Burmann.) — Leaves linéar-lanceolate, revolute, 
ves 
Flower-flalks fimple, axillary, 
, but 
cannot affent to the fynonym he has te to it of Bur 
mann, though, 
the namé may remain with Fortfter’s plant, as we have left it. 
This is a larger {pecies than the laft, with — eng — 
branched ffems, and every ~~ is nearly o ooth, 
The aves are an inch long, very acute, na 
lut2. Fiower-flalls fearcely half that bengith; 
thick and firm. SF rvit fmooth, roundi(h, dep Ned ri 
ribbed froma the decurrent keels of the head: and ftrong feg- 
ments of the calyx, which are about ing length, recurved, 
fmooth-edged, or now and then perhaps very flightly 
pao ed. 
w and revo- 
H. herbac Lian. Sp. Pl. 147. Meerb. Ic. t. 2. 
(Oldeniandia tenifola ge Ind. 37. t. 14. f. 1. Par- 
padagam ; . Mal. v. ro. 69. t. 35. —3 "ideaagutias 
pullu; ibid. aoe at ves linear-lanceolate, {mooths 
Stem very much bra pebed; forked.  Flower-ftalks in pairs, 
fimple. Fruit globofe, with four furrows. 
minute.—Native of various parts of the Eaft 
oun The root appears to be annual, though fome- 
times {trong and almott woody, a tii branched, fibrous, 
very much branched from the very bot ttom 
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fwelling joints, which a n bent or zigzag. Leaves 
about an inch long, lneelate fometimes nearly linear, 
acute, entire, flat, fmooth i beneath, 
fomewhat flalked. — Stipulas ely fhort, entire and 
beardlefs. Jlower-flalks in pairs from the forks of the ftem, 
phe. capillary, fmooth, fimple and fingle-flowered ; 
fhorter than the full-fized leaves; longer than the {maller 
iol: ones. Flowers bets ‘dim minutive, their corolla white, 
long and flender pale brown, fmooth, nearly glo- 
bofe, v i four flight ee $ runnin g down from the oy 
ments he eclyx. ce are fmall, green, 
erect, ac points on a level with the ional ete 
valves of the capfule, by which this differs from 
going. —3 is eg a flight, rather more ‘buthy, varie A 
not very difcriminative when give: sis far 
ifs in as die genus now ftands, but it would - he eafy 
o find one more expreffive, if we were allowed to change 
Lie — Leaves linear, revolute, won a 
itraight, flightly branched. Flow oli- 
tary 0 — - Calyx ere&t, minute. — 
Caclese at Sierra Leone by Dr. Afzelius. This is a very 
, annual, fmooth, upright fpecies, about a foot high, 
akin te the laft, except that its — are revolute and much 
narrower, with fome appearance of ferratures towards their 
ipulas yond fhort, en: toothed. 
he dimin 
utive upper leaves, widely 
; furrowed, the fummits of its valves extending even 
Seven the he whofe teeth are very fmall, green n and 
. Willd. n. 10.—* Leaves linear. Stem 
par "Panic “forked, ee Flower-talks lateral, in 
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iat prefume this mult be 
(Oldentandia tenuifolia ; Forft, Prodr.. 
as the latter r really belongs t . her: aceay 
ed, buthy, leafy, —— {mooth, pie ike 
Fi.wer-flalks one ~ 
pairs." ee 
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