iLuculia.] LXXV. RUBIACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 37 
limb twice as long, glabrous or pubescent. Corolla-tube 1-1} in., lobes 13 in. across. 
Capsule 4-3 in., obovoid, apparently very variable; in Nipal specimens obovoid } by 
Am. in Bhotan ones 2 by 4 in. 
2. L. Pinceana, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4132; leaves elliptic-lanceolate 
-acuminate, nerves suberect, inflorescence glabrous, corolla-lobes with interposed 
pairs of tubercles at their bases, L. gratissima, Wall, Cat. 6117 B. 
Kuasta Mrs., Mrs. Mack, &c., alt. 83-5000 ft. Muisum1 Hrs Griffith. 
A bush 4-5 ft., very similar to L. gratissima, but with leaves smaller, narrower, 
more coriaceous with more numerous (12-14 pair of) nerves which are more straight 
and ascending. The inflorescence is quite glabrous, calyx-lobes larger, corolla-tube 
11-2 in., and lobes nearly 2 in. across, with a pair of raised tubercles one cn each 
side of the sinus. Capsule 4-} in. and broadly obovoid in Khasian specimens, very 
much larger, nearly 1 in, long with strongly ribbed valves in Mishmi ones. 
TRIBE II, RONDELETIEZ. 
12. WENDLANDIA, Bartl. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or ternately whorled ; stipules entire 
or 2-fid. Flowers small, rosy or white, in terminal dense thyrsoid or panicled 
cymes, 2-3-bracteolate. Calyx-lobes 4-5, subequal, small, persistent. Corolla 
tubular- salver- or funnel-shaped, throat glabrous or hairy; lobes 4-5, imbri- 
cate in bud. Stamens 4-5, between the corolla-lobes, filaments 0 or elongate ; 
anthers versatile, exserted. Ovary 2- (rarely 3-) celled; style filiform, stigma 
entire 2-fid or 2-partite: ovules numerous, on small globose placentas adnate 
to the septum. Capsule small, globose, loculicidally, rarely septicidally 2- 
valved, many-seeded. Seeds very minute, horizontal, compressed, testa mem- 
‘branous obscurely winged; embryo short, cylindric, in fleshy albumen.— 
DisrRrs. Species about 16, tropical Asiatic. 
A. Leaves opposite, 
* Corolla-tube short, not twice the length of the oblong lobes; anthers large, 
much exserted, Stipules persistent or caducous. 
1. W. exserta, DC. Prodr. iv. 411; softly tomentose or pubescent all 
over, leaves opposite ovate-lanceolate glabrate above finely acuminate, stipules 
persistent recurved, calyx hairy lobes ovate or subulate, corolla-tube shorter 
thanf the lobes, stigma 2-partite. W. § A. Prodr. 402; Wall. Cat. 6267 
A. C.D. E. F. in part; Bedd. Fl. Sylw. 180; Brand. For. FI. 268. W. cinerea, 
Wall. Cat. 6268; DC. Prodr. iv. 412. Rondeletia exserta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 
14; FL Ind. i. 523. R. cinerea, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 
141. R. thyrsiflora and orissensis, Roth Nov. Gen. $ Sp. 142. R. Heynei, 
Roem. & Sch. Syst. v. 234. 
ry forests of the Troricat HIMALAYA, from the Chenab eastward to Nipal and 
‘Sikkim, ascending to 4000 ft. Orissa, CENTRAL INDIA, N. Deccan, and Concan. 
A small crooked tree; branches terete. Leaves coriaceous, 4-9 by 1-33 in; 
nerves 10-18 pair, arched; stipules ovate, acute, recurved. Panicles sessile, pyra- 
midal, 6-10 in. broad and long. Flowers 2 in. diam., white, fragrant, sessile. Stamens 
nearly as large as the corolla-lobes. Capsule A in. diam., white, tomentose. 
2, W. puberula, DC. Prodr. iv. 412; leaves opposite elliptic-lanceolate 
acuminate glabrous except the nerves above slightly hairy chiefly on the nerves 
beneath, stipules persistent erect, panicle pubescent, calyx hairy, lobes triangular 
