Neurocalyz. | LXXV. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) A 
in short axillary nodding racemes or heads; bracts simple or 3-toothed or 
-partite. Calyx-lobes 5, broad, membranous, reticulate. Corolla rotate; lobes 
shorter and narrower than the calyx-lobes, valvate. Stamens 5, filaments 
very short; anthers connate in a conical tube, bursting inwards. Ovary 2- 
celled; style filiform, stigma capitellate; ovules numerous on swollen peltate 
placentas. Fruit coriaceous or fleshy, usually irregularly bursting, many- 
seeded. Seeds minute, globose, testa crustaceous pitted; embryo obovoid in 
fleshy albumen.—DIsTRIB. Species 6-8, on the Dekkan Mts., Ceylon, and 
Borneo. 
1. N. zeylanicus, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 174; glabrous, leaves oblanceolate 
acuminate narrowed into slender petioles, nerves beneath and inflorescence 
puberulous, flowers racemose, calyx-lobes lanceolate. 
CEvLoN ` Suffragam district, ascending to 4000 ft., Walker, &c. 
Stem woody, 2-8 in., clothed with spreading subspinescent stipular segments. 
Leaves 4-8 by 1-2 in.; nerves about 20 pair. Peduncles numerous, half as long as 
the leaves. Flowers $ in. diam. Corolla not half as long as the calyx, lobes lanceo- 
late. 
2. N. Wightii, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 22; leaves sessile oblanceolate 
acuminate glabrous above, nerves beneath and inflorescence furfuraceous, flowers 
racemose, calyx-lobes ovate acute, N. Hookeriana, Wt. Ic. t. 52. Argo- 
stemma calycinum, Br. in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. 97 ; Wall. Cat. 8397. 
Southern Mountains of the Western PENINSULA; Wynaad, Hamilton, &e.; Nil- 
gherris, Munro. Cryton, ascending to 2000 ft., Walker, &c. 
Stem 2-4 in. woody, tortuous. Leaves 6-9 by 14-3 in.; nerves 12-15 pair; 
stipules lanceolate, membranous.  Peduncles not half so long as the leaves, Flowers 
2 in. diam. Corolla nearly as long as the calyx, lobes ovate. 
3. N. capitata, Benth. mss.; leaves oblanceolate narrowed into long 
stout petioles, nerves beneath and inflorescence pubescent, flowers capitate, 
calyx-lobes ovate acute. 
Cryton, Walker, Champion. 
Stem erect, stout, a foot or more high, with distant pairs of large leaves, glabrous. 
Leaves 10-12 by 24-4 in.; nerves 15-20 pair; stipules membranous, 2-partite, 
segments ovate caudate-acuminate, Pedwneles axillary, shorter than the petioles; 
heads of flowers globose or oblong. Flowers 3 in. diam. Corolla-lobes broadly ovate, 
obtuse, half as long as the calyx.—Very different from N. Wightii in the long stout 
stem, much larger petioled leaves with more numerous nerves, and larger flowers. 
4, N. Championii, Benth. in Thw. Enum. 139; leaves sessile or 
petiofed obovate-lanceolate obtuse bullate above, nerves beneath and inflores- 
cence villous, flowers racemed, calyx-lobes ovate acute. 
Crytow; Kokool Corle, Thwaites. 
Stem very short, woody. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., midrib hairy above, base obtuse 
-or narrowed into the petiole; nerves about 10 pair; stipules membranous, 2-partite, 
Rae half as long as the leaves. Flowers A in. diam. Corolla-lobes narrow, 
oblafie, equalling the broadly ovate acute calyx-lobes. 
D N. Gardneri, Thw. Enum. 139; leaves obovate-lanceolate with 
rounded apiculate tips narrowed into a very short petiole hairy above and 
beneath, inflorescence racemose villous, calyx-lobes ovate- or orbicular-cordate. 
' quen: Pasdoon Corle and Hewetsea, Gardner, Thwaites. 
tem short, stout, woody, villous. Leaves 4-10 by 14-33 in., very membranous, 
ciliate, obscurely crenulate ; nerves 15-18 pair; stipules 2-partite, segments caudate- 
acuifinate. Corolla not seen. 
