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HeDYOTIS NTJMMTJLARIA. (Amt.) Herbaceous diffuse Btems 4-sided hirsute elongate, leaves subsessile orbicular- 
ovate, densely hirsute ou both sides with jointed hairs, or glabrous/ 3-10 lines long and about the same in breadth, margins often revolute ; 
stipules inconspicuous; flowers subeapitate, eapituli terminal pedunculate, calyx segments lanceolate, corol infundibuliform purple 
anthers oxaerted.—(Amt. Pug. 23 (341) ; Walp. Rep. 11. p. 492.) 
Vary o hirsuta—leaves densely hirsute. 
Vary j8 glabra—leaves glabrous, H. nummulari formis Amt. L c,—Walp. 1. e. p. 493. 
Ceylon, Central Provinces, wet rocky places 5,000 to 8,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. XXYI. 
HeDYOTIS AURICULARIA. (L.) Stems 4-angled, hirsute towards the extremities and under tbe joints ^ leaves short 
petioled or subseasiie, ovate lanceolate acuta glabrous, 2 to 4J long, f to l£ inches broad, under-side strongly marked with the prominent 
more or less pubescent nerves; stipules with several bristles; flowers axillary nearly sessile crowded and somewhat verticillate, scarcely 
exceeding the stipules, calyx limb 4-partite, segments in fruit spreading with the sinus scarcely aente, corol short tubular, tube scarcely 
exceeding tbe enlyx segments; capsule Bphserical glabrous crowned with the spreading lanceolate calyx segments, hard and nut-like 
indehiscent. IF. A. Prod.p. 412—H. hirsuta ; Lam.Enc. Meih. 3. p. 79 —Rheede. Mai 10. t. 32. 
Malabar, South Caiwa, and all the western forests up to 3,000 feet elevation. Ceylon, common. In Ceylon the leaves are 
chopped up, boiled and eaten by the natives with their rice. 
PLATE No. XXYH. 
HEDYOTIS QUADRILOCULARIS. (Thw.) Herbaceous, procumbent ramous slightly pilose, stems subterete; leaves 
membranaceous ovato-Janccolate petiolate, ^ to 1J inches long, £ to £ inch broad, petiole 1-5 lines long; stipules membranaceous 
rotnndate ciliate; flowers axillary or terminal sessile, calyx turbinate lobes oblong ciliate subpilose recurved, corol infundibuliform, 
glabrous inside, lobes oblong acute, Withers sessile, style filiform exserted,' stigmas as many as the cells of the ovary long subclavate 
reflexed; ovary 4-celled rarely 2-3 celled; capsule depressed, cells several seeded. Thw . pn. PI Zey. p. 144. 
Ceylon, Badulla District rare. 
PLATE No. XXVIII, 
HeDYOTIS TKINERYIA. (Roem and Sch.) Herbaceous, branched procumbent, rooting near the base, stems slender 
from glabrous to slightly hairy, leaves petioled roundish ovate or oval glabrous sprinkled with a few hairs on the margin, up to £ an 
inch long and nearly as broad, somewhat 3-nerved; stipules slightly hairy, bipartite; segments acuminated; flowers shortly pedicelied, 
usually in pairs 1-4 in the axils of the leaves; corol rotate 4-partite glabrous within, tube scarcely any; capsule hirsutely villous 
crowned with the remote calycine teeth. Roem. and Schnlt. 3. p. 197;—IT. A. Prod. p. 414;—H. serpylifolia. Pair ;—H. orbieulata 
Wall ;—Oldenlandia trinervia, Retz. O. repens, Burm • 
Not uncommon in damp places iu the plains throughout the Presidency. Wight says the eame plant is found in the 
Mauritius. 
PLATE No. XXIX. 
HeDYOTIS CvERULEA. (WA.) Annual branched from the root diffuse; leaves setaceous bristle-pointed; up to \ an 
inch long and with the stems minutely hairy, stipules with several bristles ; flowers nearly sessile, arranged in axillary or terminal 
peduncled, sparingly dichotomous leafy corymbs; lower ones solitary in tbe forkings of the corymbs, upper ones approximated and 
somewhat capitate ; capsule glabrous nearly globose, crowned with the rigid lanceolate erect calyx segments, dry dehiscing at the apex 
within the calyx transversely to the dissepiment. TP. A. Prod. p. 412. 
district. Ff0m ^ PiaiD8 t0 6,000 fCet ' n0t ancommon - Nro^gkerries, Pulney Hills, South Canara Ghate, Denkimcottah, Tanjore 
PLATE No. XXX. 
