Oldenlandia.] RUBIACE^. M5 



Siwalik ranare (Gamble), Moradabad (T. Thomson). Distrib. : Behar aind 

 southwards to Madras. Very similar to some forms of 0. Gorymhosa, 

 but the infloresceue is different. 



5. O. dlcbotoma, Hooh.f, in F. B. I. Hi, 67; Cooke Fl, Bomb, i, 590 

 Hedyotls dichotoma, Wall, (in part) ; W. ^ A. Prod. 416 (in part). 



A slender annual, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Stems erect, up to 18 in, 

 high, simple or much branched, terete, shining and usually glabrous ; 

 branches spreading, nodes distant. Leaves 1-3 in. long, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, flat, upper surface subscaberulous. Peduncles axillary and in 

 open terminal panicles, capillary. Mowers very minute, on long hair- 

 like pedicels, rarely solitary, white. Calyx-teeth subulate, much 

 shorter than the slender corolla-tube, distant in fruit. Capsule very 

 small, globose, crown not produced, cells about 6 -seeded. 



Agra district (Munro), Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell). Distbib-. Kumaon 

 at 5,000 ft. (Duthie), and from Bombay and the Central Provinces to S. 

 India. 



6. O. aspera, DC. Prod, iv, 428; F.B.I. Hi, 68; Cooke Fl, Bomb, i'' 

 591. Hedyotis aspera, Heyne ; W. ^ A. Prod. 4J7. 



A stout annual, 6-12 in. high. Stem scabrid. Leaves in fascicled whorls, 

 subsesaile, erect, 1-3 in. long, narrowly linear, acute, glabrous above, 

 coriaceous, margins revolute ; stipules membranous, with 1-3 terniinal 

 bristles. Flowers solitary or in pairs, on the branches of 3-chotomous^ 

 cymes, sessile or nearly so, ■§■ in. long, pale blue. Calyx-teeth much 

 shorter than the coroiia-tube, subulate, distant in fruit. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, its tube yV ill- long, slender. Capsules i in. in diam., globose or 

 sub-didymons, scabrid. 



Eohilkhand, and in the Bahraich district of N. Oudh (Duthie), Agra 

 district (Munro). Distrib. Punjab and from Bombay and Cent. 

 Provinces to S. India; also in Trop. Africa. 



7. O. graciUs, Hook, f, in P. B. I. Hi, 68 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, i, 591. 

 Hedyotis gracilis, Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey ^ Wall.) i, 371. 



A slender erect herb 6-12 in. high. Stem sparingly branched, scaberulous 

 or glabrate below ; branches erect, glabrous. Leaves erect, not in fas- 

 cicles, 2-3^ in. long, narrowly linear, acuminate, flat, glabrous, nerves 

 indistinct ; stipules truncate. Cyme-branches slender, spreading in- 

 flower, erect in fruit ; pedicels very slender. Calyx | in. long, glabrous ; 

 lobes long, acute. Corolla i in., brown ; tube very slender ; lobes 

 linear, obtuse. Capsule pedicelled, obovoid globose or hemispheric, the 

 apex slightly protruding. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from Pilibhit and N. Oudh to Gorakhpur (Duthie). 

 DiSTBiB. N- Bengal; Trop. Himalaya, up to 5,000 ft., from Jaunsar 

 to Sikkim ; Bombay, Cent, and S. India; also in Burma. 



8. O. paniculata, Linn. Sp. PI. 1667 ; F. B. I. Hi, 69. 0. alata, RoxK 

 Fl. Ind, i, 421 [not of Keen.). Hedyotis raeemosa, W. ^ A. Prod. 414. 



