48 LXXV., RUBIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Alleophania.. 
18. ALLIEOPHANIA, Thwaites. 
Undershrubs; branches 4-angled. Leaves sessile or shortly petioled, ovate 
or lanceolate; nerves close; stipules connate into a scarious bristly tube. 
Flowers minute, polygamo-diccious, in axillary dense cymes, pale purple. 
Calyx-tube obconic; limb bell-shaped, 4-ribbed and with 4 bristle-like teeth, 
pene Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube and throat hairy; lobes 4, valvate in 
ud, Stamens 4, inserted between the corolla-lobes, filaments of ¢ long ex- 
serted ` anthers linear-oblong, obtuse. Ovary 4-celled; style filiform, 9 ex- 
serted, arms 4 linear; ovules 1 basilar erect in each cell. Fruit small, tur- 
binate, with 4 bony indehiscent pyrenes. Seeds erect, minute, broadly oblong or 
subglobose, compressed, narrowed at the base, testa membranous; embryo 
short, cylindric.—DrsrRIB. Species 3, one Malayan, the others as below. 
l. A. decipiens, Tw. Enum. 147; more or less hirsute or glabrate,. 
leaves sessile or petioled ovate or lanceolate acute or acuminate, nerves strong 
beneath, stipules broad, calyx-teeth equalling the hairy fruit. Hedyotis nodu- 
losa, var. a. Thw. Enum, 143, as to C. P. 105, not of Arnott, 
Cryton ; Central Province, alt. 3-7000 ft. 
An erect 3-chotomously branched shrub. Leaves 1-2} by }-1} in., usually coria- 
ceous and hairy or scabrid above, very variable in shape from broad ovate to narrow- 
lanceolate, base acuminate rounded or cordate, upper surface flat or bullate; petiole 
0 or 3-3 in.; stipular bristles hairy,  Calyz-limb membranous. Corolla-tube hairy, 
lobes narrow, villous within. Style slender, hairy, arms spreading.—There are three 
varieties: one with broad sessile or petioled coriaceous leaves, seabrid above, with 
very strong nerves beneath; the second (var. flavescens, The, 1, c.) with ovate-cordate 
petioled membranous very hairy leaves; the third with narrow-lanceolate coriaceous 
leaves glabrous and wrinkled above and strong hairy nerves beneath.—Closely allied 
to Hedyotis rugulosa, Korth., of the Malayan Islands, which has much longer calyx- 
teeth, on which Miquel founded the section Tetragyneia of Hedyotis. 
2. A. Arnottii, Hook. f.; glabrous or nearly so, leaves petioled ovate- 
lanceolate acuminate nerves distinct, stipules caducous ovate with few sub- 
terminal bristles, calyx-teeth shorter than the glabrous fruit.—Hedyotis nodu- 
losa, var, a. Thwaites Enum. 143, as to C. P. 87, not of Arnott. 
Cryton; Newera Ellia, Gardner; Adam's Peak, Thwaites. 
Closely allied to A. decipiens, but almost glabrous, with longer differently shaped 
stipules, smaller glabrous fruit and shorter ealyx-teeth; the style, too, is quite 
glabrous. 
19. FERGUSONIA, Hook. f. ' 
A slender procumbent herb, branching from the base; branches very long, 
rooting below, acutely 4-angled; nodes ciliate. Leaves opposite, subsessile, 
lanceolate, scaberulous, l-nerved, margin recurved; stipules connate with the 
€— erect, herbaceous, lanceolate, ciliate, persistent. Flowers small, axil- 
ary, shortly pedicelled, 2-bracteolate. Calyx-tube subpyriform ; lobes 4, qrect, 
lanceolate, ciliate, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, throat glabrous or Mix ; 
lobes 4, short, valvate in bud, tips ciliate. Stamens 4, inserted between the 
corolla-lobes, filaments short; anthers linear-oblong. Disk epigynous, 4-lobed. 
Ovary 4-celled; style filiform, arms 2 linear hairy; ovules 1 basilar erect in 
each cell. Fruit of 4 pear-shaped coriaceous cocci crowned with the calyx- 
teeth, Seeds erect, pyriform ; embryo compressed, subcylindrie, radicle infgrior. 
1, F. zeylanica, Hook. f. in Hook, Ic. Pl. t. 1124. Borreria tetracgcca, 
Tw. Enum, 442; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t, 39. 
