RUBIACEAE. — PRISMATOMERIS 413 
Yunnan: Mengisze, forests to southeast, alt. 1640 m., A. Henry (No. 10777; 
tree 5 m. tall; flowers white); Szemao, east on the Tea Hills, A. Henry (No. 
11934); same locality, mountains to south, alt. 1480 m., A. Henry (No. 11934°; 
shrub 2 m. tall). 
MORINDA Linn. 
Morinda umbellata Linnaeus, Spec. 176 (1763). — De Candolle, Prodr. IV. 449 
(1830). — Wight & Arnott, Prodr. Fl. Ind. 420 (1834). — Wallich, Cat. No. 8431 
(1847). — Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 159 (1861). — Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, II. 
62 (1877). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 157 (1880). — Maximowiez in Bull. 
Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, XXIX. 170 (1883); in Mél. Biol. XI. 795 (1883). — 
Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 386 (1888). 
Morinda Padavara A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 206 (1789). 
Morinda scandens Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. I. 548 (1820). — De Candolle, Prodr. 
IV. 449 (1830). 
Morinda tetrandra Jack in Malay. Misc. I. 13 (1820). — Wallich, Cat. 8432 
(1847). — Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. II. 203 (1824). — De Candolle, Prodr. IV. 
449 (1830). 
Yunnan: Mengtsze, forests to southeast, alt. 1640 m., A. Henry (No. 11246; 
large climber on tree; fruits reddish). 
PRISMATOMERIS Thwaites. 
Prismatomeris tetrandra K. Schumann in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
IV. abt. 4, 138 (1891). — Craib in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1911, 395. 
Coffea tetrandra Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. I. 538 (1820). — Wallich, Cat. 6242 
(1830). — De Candolle, Prodr. IV. 499 (1830). — Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. 
Burma, II. 28 (1877). 
Prismatomeris albiflora Thwaites in Hooker's Jour. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. 
VIII. 268, t. VII. (1856); Enum. Pl. Zeylan. 154, 421 (1859). — Hooker f., 
Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 159 (1880). 
Yunnan: I-wu, A. Henry (No. 13573; in Herb. Kew). 
Prismatomeris brevipes Hutchinson, n. sp. 
Frutex 2-3 m. altus; ramuli graciles, flexuosi, suleati, cortice cinereo-brunneo 
Obtecti, glabri. Folia lanceolata v. oblongo-lanceolata, basi acute euneata, apice 
longe acute acuminata acumine 1.5-2 cm. longo, 7-12 cm. longa, 1.7-3.3 em. lata, 
tenuiter chartacea, utrinque glabra; nervi laterales utrinsecus circiter 6, intra mar- 
ginem conspicue conjuncti, graciles, infra prominuli; nervi tertiarii et venae vix 
evoluta; petioli 3-5 mm. longi, glabri; stipulae minutae. Flores axillares et ter- 
minales, brevissime pedicellati, plerumque geminati; pedicelli 1-2 mm. longi; 
receptaculum turbinatum, 1.5 mm. longum; calyx brevissimus, minutus, denti- 
culatus; corolla alba; tubus superne sensim leviter ampliatus, 1 em. longus, extra 
T, intra tenuiter pubescens; lobi ovato-lanceolati, subobtusi, 2 mm. longi; 
fauci inserta, inclusa; antherae 2 mm. longae; stylus gracillimus, corollae 
m aequilongus, glaber; ovarium 2-loculare. Fructus leviter 2-lobus, globosus, 
mm. diametro, glaucescens, calycis lobis suberectis persistentibus coronatus; 
pedicelli 2,5-4 mm. longi. 
Yunnan: Mengtsze, mountains to southeast, alt. 1950 m., A. Enn (No. 
; shrub 3 m. tall; fruit reddish; No. 90404; No. 9040*, type; No. ). 
This species is very similar in general appearance to Prismatomeris tetrandra 
