68 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
A specimen with more slender branchlets, narrower leaves, and 
glabrous, or nearly so, in all its parts may be a variety of the 
foregoing or a distinct species. 
Spermacoce stricta, Lina. f.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 200.— 
Meiktila. 
Tropical Asia and Africa. 
Spermacoce hispida, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 200.— 
Meiktila. 
Widely spread in India and Malaya and eastward to South 
China. 
Rubia crassipes, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Herba robusta, scaberrima, caulibus tetragonis tuberculato- 
hispidis. Folia quaternatim verticillata, distincte petiolata (foliis 
2 petiolis brevioribus, an semper ?), crassissima, rigida, ovato- 
oblonga vel elliptiea, 1-12 poll. longa, obtusa, basi rotundata, 
tubereulato-hispida, prominenter 3-5-nervia, nervis subtus ele- 
vatis, extimis brevibus. Flores . . . . in cymas triehotomas 
axillares et terminales dispositi, pedunculis pedicellisque crassis 
suleatis hispidis. Fructus didymus (immaturus tantum visus) 
inermis. 
Shan hills at 6000 feet. 
In foliage this is nearest R. cordifolia, Linn., but yet so 
different that we have not hesitated to describe it as a distinct 
species. 
Ruhia Mandersii, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Herba perennis? siccitate nigrescens, caulibus robustiusculis 
ramosis pedalibus quadrangularibus vel anguste quadrialatis ad 
angulos seabridis. Folia quaternatim verticillata, subsessilia, 
erassa, rigida, obovato-rotundata, fere orbicularia vel superiora 
minora ovato-lanceolata vel oblonga, margine seabrida, ezeterum 
glabra, nuda, 3-5-nervia, nervis subtus elevatis. Flores pro 
genere mediocres, laxiuscule trichotomo-paniculati, graeiliter 
pedicellati; corolla glabra, rotato-campanulata, lobis oblongis 3- 
striatis apice leviter ineurvis; ovarium nudum, glabrum. Fructus 
ignotus. 
Shan hills at 4000 feet, Manders. 
Not closely resembling any species. 
Named after Surgeon N. Manders, of the medical staff. 
