26 Ly, RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Stephegyne. 
10-12 pair; petiole i-l in.; stipules large, obovate, membranous. Peduncles ter- 
minal, usually 3-nate with the middle ones very short or 0, the lateral 1-3 in.; 
bracted leaves petioled; bracts very caducous. Heads 1} in. diam. ; flowers glabrous ; 
stigmas cylindric, truncate at both ends. Capsules A in. including the calyx, ribbed, 
nearly glabrous. > 
3. S. diversifolia, Hook. f.; leaves orbicular-cordate oblong or elliptic, 
tip rounded, calyx-limb 0, corolla-tube equalling the bearded lobes. N., diver- 
sifolia, Wall. Cat. 6096; G. Don Gen. Syst. ii. 467. N. parvifolia, var. 2, 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 607. ÑN. rotundifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 516; Kurz l. c. N. 
Brunonis, Wall. Cat, 6097; G. Don l. c. 467. 
Currtaconc, Roxburgh, Ee,  TENAssERIM and Brema, Wallich, &e.—Disreie. 
Philippines. 
A small tree. Leaves deciduous, glabrous or pubescent beneath; the lower 
orbicular-cordate, 10 in. diam., coriaceous, the upper 4-6 by 2-3 in. and mem- 
branous, nerves oblique; petiole 3-1} in.; stipules obovate-oblong. Heads white, in 
spreading 3-chotomous panicles, nearly 1 in. diam.; foliar bracts long-petioled ; 
corolla glabrous except the lobes within; stigma elongate, mitriform. Capsules 1 in. 
long, smooth, ribbed.—I have preferred Wallich’s and Don’s name of diversifolia to 
Roxburgh’s of rotundifolia, as expressing the very remarkable difference between 
what I take to be the upper and lower leaves of the branches, 
6. NAUCLEA, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves usually large, sessile or petioled ; stipules large, 
caducous or subpersistent. Flowers crowded in globose peduncled bracteate 
solitary or subpanicled heads. Calya-tube turbinate or obconic ; lobes 5, usually 
po Lae with valvate processes. Corolla elongate-funnel-shaped, throat glabrous ; 
lobes short, imbricate. Stamens 5, on the throat of the corolla, filaments 0 or 
short or long. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, stigma capitate cylindric or 
submitriform ; ovules many, pendulous on adnate ascending placentas. Fruit 
of 2 dehiscent many-seeded cocci. Seeds imbricate, testa winged; embryo 
clavate in fleshy albumen.—DrsrRrn. Species about 30, tropical Asiatic, and 
Polynesian. 
* Stigma capitate, stipules flat caducous, 
1. N. purpurea, Zorb. Cor. Pl. i. 41, t. 54; Fl. Ind. i. 515; leaves 
elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate subacute, heads 1-3 long peduncled, corolla glabrous. 
Wall. Cat. 6090, excl. D.; TV. & A. Prodr. 391, partly; Bedd. Fl. Sylv, 129 ; 
le, Pl. Ind. Or. t. 19. N. lanceolata, Blume Bijd. 1009. Anthocephalus 
indicus, Richd. in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, v. 237. A. chinensis, Hassk. in 
Flora, 1845, 231. Cephalanthus chinensis, Lamk. Dict. i. 678, excl. syn. 
Rumph.— Rheede Hot, Malab. iii. t. 33. 
Western PENINSULA; from the Conean to the Cirears, and southwards, not 
common, 
A small tree, quite glabrous. Leaves 4-8 by 14-5 in., membranous, shininWjon 
both surfaces; petiole 3-11 in. Heads 14 in. diam., pale» of conical bristles ; 
peduncles about 2-3 in., bracteate about the middle. Calyæ silky. 
2. N. zeylanica, Hook. f.; leaves elliptic or oblanceolate obtuse, 
peduncles 1-3 slender, corolla silky. N. peduncularis, Thwaites Enum. 137, not 
of Wallich; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 129; Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 235. 
CEvrow ` Saffragam and contiguous districts, ascending to 1000 ft. not uneommoy ; 
central province rare, Gardner, Thwaites. 
A middle-sized tree. Leaves 4-5 by 1-2 in., opaque when dry, nerves 6-8 pa 
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