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HedyOTIS NUMMULARIA. (Arnt.) Herbaceous diffuse stems 4-Sided hirsute elongate, leaves sufcsessile orbicular- 
ovate, densely hirsute on both sides with jointed hairs, or glabrous, 3-10 lines long and about the same in breadth, margins often revolute ; 
stipules inconspicuous; flowers subcapitate, capituli terminal pedunculate, calyx segments lanceolate, corol infundibuliform purple 
anthers exserted.—(Arnt. Pug. 23 (341) ; Walp. Rep. 11. p. 492.) 
Vary a hirsuta—leaves densely hirsute. 
Vary /? glabra—leaves glabrous, H. nummulari formis Arnt. 1. c.—Walp. 1. c. p. 493. 
Ceylon, Central Provinces, wet rocky places 5,000 to 8,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. XXVI. 
HeDYOTIS AURICULARIA. (L.) Stems 4-angled, hirsute towards the extremities and under the joints ; leaves short 
petioled or subsessile, ovate lanceolate acute glabrous, 2 to 44 long, f to 1| 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 acute, corol short tubular, tube' scarcely- 
exceeding the calyx segments; capsule sphserical glabrous crowned with the spreading lanceolate calyx segments, hard and nut-like 
indehiscent. W. A. Prod. p. 412—IT. hirsuta ; Lam.Enc. Meth. 3. p. 79—Rheede. Mai. 10. t. 32. 
Malabar, South Canara, 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. XXVII. 
HEDYOTIS QUADRILOCULARIS. (Thw.) Herbaceous, procumbent ramous slightly pilose, stems subterete; leaves 
membranaceous ovato-lanceolate peliolate, \ to 1J inches long, ^ to f inch broad, petiole 1-5 lines long; stipules membranaceous 
rotundate ciliate ; flowers axillary or terminal sessile, calyx turbinate lobes oblong ciliate subpilose recurved, corol infundibuliform, 
glabrous inside, lobes oblong acute, anthers sessile, style filiform exserted, stigmas as many as the cells of the ovary long subdavate 
reflexed ; ovary 4-celled rarely 2-3 celled ; capsule depressed, cells several seeded. Thw. En. PI. Zey. p. 144. 
Ceylon, Badulla District rare. 
PLATE No. XXVIII. 
HEDYOTIS TRINERVIA. (Roem and Sell.) 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 i an 
inch long and nearly as broad, somewhat 3-nerved ; stipules slightly hairy, bipartite; segments acuminated; flowers shortly pedicelled. 
usually in pairs 1-4 in the axils of the leaves ; corol rotate 4-partite glabrous within, tube scarcely any ; capsule liirsutely villous 
crowned with the remote calycine teeth. Roem. and Schult. 3. p. 197;— W. A. Prod. p. 414 ;—H. serpylifolia. Poir ; —PI. orbiculata 
Wall. ;—Oldenlandia trinervia, Retz. ;—O. repens, Burnt- 
Not uncommon in damp places iu the plains throughout the Presidency. 
Mauritius. 
PLATE No. XXIX. 
Wight says the same plant is found in the 
HEDYOTIS CfERITLEA. (W.A.) Annual branched from the root diffuse ; leaves setaceous bristle-pointed; up to l 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 the 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. 
From the plains up to 6,000 feet, not uncommon. Brumagherries, Pulney Hills, South Canara Ghats, Denkinacottah, Tanjore 
district. 
PLATE No. XXX. 
