412 RUBIACEM, [Oldeniandia. 



style filiform, stigma /^-fid or 2-lobecl, ovules numerous, on sessile or 

 pedicelled placentas, attached to the septum at or below the middle. 

 Sruit small, membranons coriaceous or crustaceous, indehiscent or 

 septi- or loculicidal or of 2 separable or connate cocci, 2-many-seeded. 

 Seeds plano-convex or angled, testa very rarely winged, embryo 

 clavate in horny endosperm. — Species about 80, chiefly in Trop. 

 Asia. 



Leaves narrow-linear ; cal-teeth suhulate, shorter 

 than the capsnle . . . • • . 1, H. pinijoUa, 



Leaves elliptic- or linear-lanceolate ; cal-teeth 

 triangular, about equalling the capsule . , 2. H. hisjpida» 



1. H. pinifoUa, Wall. Cat 850; F. B, I. m, 60. 



A slender diffuse very much branched annual, 4-8 in. high, turning black 

 when dry. Branches acutely 4i-angled and with the angles sometimea 

 hispid. Leaves 1-1| in. long, often fascicled, narrowly linear, acuminate, 

 rigid, scabrous above, 1-nerved, margins revdute ; stipules very short, 

 with many rigid bristles. Cymes axillary and terminal, sessile, capi- 

 tate. Heads 5-^ in. in diam., 3-many -flowered. Calyx-teeth subulate, 

 shorter than the ovoid hispid capsule. 



Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell). Distrib. : Lower Bengal, Burma, Andaman 

 Islands, Malaya and China 



2. H. hispida. Betz. Ohs. iv, 23 ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. i, 364 ; F. B. I. iii, 60 / 

 Collett Fl. Siml. 229. 



A diffuse annual. 8tems 6-1^ in. long, terete below, angled above, scabrid. 

 Leaves sessile, 1|-2| in., elliptic or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 rigid, l-nerved ; margins recurved, hispid ; stipules ciliate. Flowers 

 2-6, in axillary clusters, small, white. Calyx-teeth triangular, about 

 equalling the hispid ovoid capsule. 



Dehra Dun (Gamble, Duthie). Disteib. Along the base of the Hima- 

 laya from Ohamba and Kangra to Sikkim, also in Assam ; E. Beng., 

 Malaya and China. 



9. OLDENLANDIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 64. 



Slender erect or diffuse di-trichotomously branched herbs. Leaves 

 usually small and narrow ; stipules acute or bristly. Flowers small, 

 white or pink, in dichotomous axillary and terminal usually panicled 

 cymes, rarely solitary. Calyx-teeth 4, rarely 5, usually erect and 

 distant in fruit, with sometimes alternating teeth. Corolla rotate 

 funnel- or salver-shaped, tube short or long ; lobes 4, rarely 5, obtuse, 

 valvate. Ovary 2-celled, style filiform ; stigmas 2, linear, ovules 

 numerous, placentas attached to the septum. Capsule small, usually 



