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One of these, Oldenlandia adscensionis (a rubiaceous shrub) has not been seen since 1889, and is probably extinct.
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-- There is a plant called chay, the _Oldenlandia umbellata_, which is extensively cultivated as a dye plant in the East, especially on the coasts of Coromandel, Nellore, Masulipatam, Malabar, and other parts of India.
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Houstonia caerulea (bluets), now Oldenlandia (Gray, 2d ed.), 1857.
The Maine Woods 1858
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Blanco states further that this tree grows to a height of about 3 yards in Angat and that it exhales a strong odor resembling that of vinegar at times, and again like that of tobacco.) _Oldenlandia corymbosa_, L. (_O. biflora_, Lam.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Hedyotis was sent to Darwin by F. Muller; it seems possible, therefore, that Hedyotis was written by mistake for some other Rubiaceous plant, perhaps Oldenlandia, which John Scott sent him from India.); the two other genera in the same sub-family with Villarsia are dimorphic in Europe and Ceylon; a sub-genus of Erythroxylon (675/3.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Binati pedun - culiy Peduncles growing in pairs •, as in Ca - prarid) and Oldenlandia - zeylanica.
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