Argostemma. | LXXV. RuBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 43 
acute, anthers 4 free oblong-lanceolate curved opening by pores. Wt. Ic.t. 
1160. A. connatum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iti. 345; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fi. 118 (by error cuneatum). 
Mountains of the Western PENINSULA, from Canara to Travancore, Rottler, 
Heyne, &c. 
Three inches to a span high. Leaves never more than 4, very variable in size and 
shape, rarely acute or shortly petioled. Umbels 3- many-fid. Flowers about $ in. 
diam., white. Corolla-lobes acute. 
3. A. tavoyanum, Wall. in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. 95; Cat. 8893; leaves 
subsessile opposite or in whorls of 4 ovate acute base contracted or cordate, 
umbels terminal, calyx pubescent teeth ovate, anthers 4 free oblong-lanceolate 
with terminal pores. 
Tunasserm™; Tavoy, Wallich. Marrapan, at Moulmein, Parish. 
Sparsely pilose; stem 2-4 in. Leaves sometimes only one pair, usually 4 in a 
whorl, rarely with a smaller pair added, equal or more or less unequal. Umbels 
simple, many-fld. Flowers } in. diam. Corolla A in. diam., and segments acute 
short.—This may prove to be a variety of A. courtallense, but the leaves are more 
acute and the calyx-lobes more obtuse, and the corolla smaller with shorter lobes, 
as far as I can make out by moistening the dried specimens. 
4. A. khasianum, C. B. Clarke; leaves sessile or petioled opposite or 
in whorls of 4, elliptic ovate acute or subacute glabrous, umbels terminal and 
axillary and their peduncles pubescent, calyx-teeth broad acute, anthers 4 free 
linear-oblong straight opening by pores. A. verticillatum, Wall. Cat. 8394, in 
part. 
Enasta Mrs., alt. 2-4000 ft., De Silva, &e. 
Closely allied to 4. courtallense, differing in the much narrower glabrous leaves, 
often 9-3 umbels, which are more closely pubescent; the anthers, too, are more 
strictly oblong. There are sometimes as many as 8 leaves of very various size in 
irregularly superposed pairs, and the midrib and nerves are sometimes white. 
Tt Flowers 5-merous. 
5. A. pictum, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. à. 327; Cat. 
8392; leaves sessile or shortly petioled, usually in a whorl of 4 of which 2 are 
very small and 2 very large, broadly ovate or almost orbicular obtuse or sub- 
acute glabrous or with a few short scattered hairs, umbels 1-3 terminal simple 
glabrous, anthers 5 coherent linear-oblong straight opening by pores. Benn. 
Pl. Jav. Rar. 94. 
wane; Wallich, Se, 
im in. high. Leaves usually large, sometimes 4 by 3 in., often variegated along 
the midrib and nerves. JPeduncle slender. Calya-teeth broad, acute. 
6. A. verticillatum, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 
325; Pl. As. Rar. ii, 80, t. 185; Cat. 8394, in part ; leaves sessile 4 in a whorl 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate finely acuminate glabrous unequal, umbels 1 or 
more terminal sometimes branched, anthers 5 free linear-oblong straight api- 
cuf&te opening by pores. Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. 94. A. glaberrimum, Dalz. 
in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 345; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 118. A. acutum, 
Wall. mss. 
(TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. 2-6000 ft. KmasrA Mrs., 
alt, 4000 ft. Canara; in the Warree country, on trees, Dalzell. MARTABAN, at 
Moulmein, Parish. PENANGo, Wallich. j 
Leaves 1-5 in., broader more ovate and distinctly petioled only in Moulmein 
specimens, very rarely with an additional pair of leaves below the whorl. Umbels 
1-3, sometimes compound, all terminal. Flowers about jin. diam. Calya-teeth acute.. 
