416 BUBIACE^, [Anotis. 



A succulent glabrous annual, 6-18 in. high, branched from the base. 

 Stem erect or diffuse, the lower branches often stout and obtusely 4)- 

 angled. Leaves |-3 in. long, elliptic-ovate or oblong, subacute, flat, 

 narrowed into a short or long petiole, bright green ; nerves indistinct j 

 stipwles truncate, bristly. Cymes short, from the upper leaf axils, 3-8- 

 fld, panicled. Flowers minute, white. Oalyx-tuhe not produced above 

 the ovary. Capsules 1-^ in. in diam., on slender pedicels, turbinate 

 didymous or hemispheric, occasionally 4-ribbedj membranous, the crown 

 usually exceeding the calyx-teeth. 



Sub-Himalayan tract in N. Oudh and Gorakhpur (Duthie). Disteib. 

 Sikkim, Assam, E. Beng., S. India, Ceylon ; also in Burma, Malaya, 

 Philippines, China, and Polynesia. 



9. O. nudicaulis. Both. Nov. 8p. 95; F. B. I. Hi, 70. Hedyotis nudi- 

 <}aulis, W. ^ A. Prod, 416. 



A small erect somewhat hairy annual. Stem short, naked or with 2 leaves 

 below, simple or 3-chotomously forked, each branch usually bearing 4 

 unequal leaves in a whorL Leaves shortly petioled, t-2 in. long, ovate 

 or elliptic, obtuse ; nerves distinct. Flowers at the ends of capillary 

 branches of the long-peduncled terminal cymes, very small. Calyx-teeth 

 minute, subulate, obscure in fruit. Capsules hemispheric. 



JDehra Dun (Gamble, Duthie) ; Siwalik range (J. L. Stewart). Distbib. 

 Tropical Himalaya from Garhwal eastwards ; Chota Nagpur (on 

 Parasnath), S. India, Burma, Andaman Islands, Malay Penins., and 

 Java. This species very much resembles Mollugo nudicaulis in habit 

 and general appearance. 



10, ANOTIS. D C, ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 71. 



Herbs, prostrate or ascending, rarely erect ; stipules usually mem- 

 l)ranous or with marginal bristles. Calyx-tube short ; lobes 4, with 

 broad intervefting sinuses. Corolla tubular or fu no el-shaped ; lobes 

 4, usually shorter than the tube, valvate in bud. Stamens 4, on the 

 mouth of the corolla ; anthers included or exserted. Ovary 2-rarely 

 3-4*celled ; style filiform ; stigmas 2-4, linear ; ovules usually few, 

 rarely solitary in each cell ; placentas ascending from near the base 

 ^f the septum. Capsule didymous or laterally compressed, crown 

 produced between the calyx-lobes, loculicidally 2-valved at the top, 

 rarely indehiscent, cells 1- or more-seeded. Seeds peltate or boat- 

 ehaped or rarely plano-convex, coarsely pitted or reticulate. — Species 

 about 25 ; in Trop. Asia and Australia, and one in S. America. 



A. calycina, BooTc* f. in F. B. I. iii, 73 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 230. 



A slender erect sub-glabrous annual. Stems 4-8 in. high, simple or much 

 branched from the base, 4-angled shining. Leaves |-1 in. long, ovate- 



