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[. Danais . 
puberulous, exceeding the calyx. Calyx in. long. Corolla fragrant, 
red-orange, ■§■ in. long ; teeth shorter than the tube, reflexed when 
expanded. Capsule fragile, glabrous, the size of a small pea. D. 
rotundifolia and sulcata, DC. Prod. loc. cit. D.laxiflora, Bojer an DC .? 
Malanea verticillata, Sieber. 
Mauritius, frequent in woods. Also Madagascar. We have a monster without 
petals or stamens with very large calyx-teeth. Liane de hois jaune. 
2. OLDENLANDIA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth 4-5, small, 
lanceolate. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube long or short ; teeth 4-5, 
valvate. Stamens 4-5, inserted at the naked throat of the corolla, 
included ; filaments very short. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules many ; styles 
slender, with two short forks. Capsule minute, globose, membranous, 
splitting from top to bottom down the centre. Seeds many, very small. 
— Much-branched slender herbs with small flowers in terminal 
or axillary cymes. Distrib. Tropics, nearly all of Old World. 
Species 150. 
Flowers tetramerous. 
Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves, on in. 
pedicels. 
Stems short, with leaves mostly congested . . . . 1.0. congesta. 
Stems trailing, with distant leaves 2. 0. Seberi. 
Flowers fascicled, pilose, nearly sessile 3. 0. trinervia. 
Flowers pentamerous. 
Leaves oblong or lanceolate 4. 0. macrophylla. 
Leaves minute, linear 5. O. Hornei. 
1. O. congesta, Balf.fil. Perennial, densely casspitose, glabrous. 
Stems generally so short that the leaves are congested into a rosette 
at the surface of the soil, sometimes slender, trailing to a length of 
2-3 inches. Leaves obovate-oblong, glossy, rigid, 1-nerved, ^ n - 
long, narrowed to a short petiole. Flowers few, solitary in the axils 
of the leaves, on i-£in. pedicels. Flower-calyx in. long ; tube cam- 
panulate ; teeth 4, lanceolate-deltoid. Petals not seen. Capsule tur- 
binate, -§• in. long, opening at the top. 
Rodriguez, on the shore. Dr. Balfour / Endemic. 
2. O. Sieberi, Baker. A diffuse glabrous annual, with very numerous 
stems, i-| ft. long, spreading from the crown of the root. Leaves 
distant, oblanceolate, obtuse, subsessile, 1-nerved, spreading, ^ in. long. 
Flowers copious, solitary, on slender curved pedicels j— | in. long from 
the axils of the leaves. Corolla minute, funnel-shaped, with a short tube. 
Capsule turbinate, fragile, glabrous, T V~g- in. long ; teeth 4, linear, 
minute. Hedyotis repens, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 167, non DC 1 
Mauritius, by roadsides and in damp ground. Sieber ! (FI. Maur. ii. 207). Ayres ! 
Endemic. 
