78 LXXV. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) LOphiorrhiza. 
7. O. Harrisiana, Heyne in W. & A. Prodr. 405; herbaceous or 
shrubby below, stem above leaf-nerves beneath and cymes pubescent or tomen- 
tose, leaves ovate or ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate 
glabrous or with minute scattered hairs above, stipules with 1 or more long 
points, cymes tomentose or glabrate rather contracted, bracteoles few filiform 
caducous or 0, calyx-teeth subulate, corolla glabrous or pubescent 4-4 in. tubular, 
lobes short keeled on the back, capsule glabrous. 
Hilly districts of India from Wan. eastward to the Kuasia Mrs., alt. 0-5000 ft. 
ASSAM, SILHET, CHITTAGONG, TENASSERIM, Helfer (Kew Distrib, 2857), Griffith (Kew 
Distrib. 2857-8-9); EASTERN Pexıixsvura, from the Conean southwards; OCryron, 
A common and variable plant, probably a variety of O. Mungos, but smaller, more 
pubescent, with longer stipules, usually longer subulate calyx-teeth, and setaceous or 
filiform bracteoles, less spreading cymes, and smaller capsules.—The following seem 
referable to it, and are scarcely distinguishable, 
Var. 1. Harrisiana, Wall. Cat. 6236 ; slender, rooting below, leaves 13-2 in. 
broadly ovate often obtuse base often rounded or even subeordate glabrous above, 
cymes small. Wight Ie. t. 1162 ( Harrisonii).— Mysore, Heyne, &c. 
Var, 2. rugosa, Wall. Cat. 6235 (sp.); slender, leaves 1-2} in. ovate-lanceolate 
acuminate at both ends with minute scattered hairs above, cymes few-fid.—O. prostrata, 
Don Prodr. 136.—Sikkim and Nipal. 
Var. 3. decumbens, Gardn, Mss.; stems decumbent often much branched, leaves 
15-4 in. obtuse or acute narrowed at the base glabrous above, cymes contracted, 
corolla very short.— Ceylon, alt, 5-6000 ft.; abundant in the Eastern Peninsula and 
Tenasserim. 
Van. 4. argentea, Wall. Cat. 6229 (sp.); more glabrous, leaves 13-4 in. ovate or 
narrowly laneeolate usually white beneath and sometimes along the midrib above 
glabrous or with short hairs above, cyme and flowers glabrous.—Khasia Mts., Sylhet, 
Chittagong, Mergui, Ceylon, Nilgherries, and other Peninsula Mts. 
Van. A. merguensis; like var. argentea, but eyme and corolla very tomentose, leaves 
either glabrous or with seattered short hairs above.—Mergui, Nilgherries. 
3. O. trichocarpa, Bi. Bijd. 977; stem erect branched, leaf-nerves 
beneath and cyme densely pubescent, leaves ovate acute or acuminate glabrous 
or with scattered hairs above, stipules filiform from a subulate base, cymes small 
sessile or shortly peduncled dense-flowered tomentose, bracteoles 0, calyx-teeth 
subulate, corolla 2 in. puberulous, tube narrow, capsules pubescent. O. hispidula, 
Wall. Cat. 6234; G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 523. O. villosa, Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. 
1877, ii. 130, exel. synon. t 
CHITTAGONG, Lister, Tenasserim, and the A NDAMAN Israwps, Comez, Griffith 
(Kew Distrib. 2869).—Disrrin, Java. 
This may be only a form of Harrisiana, and if so this latter name must giye place 
to Blume's, I see little but the pubescent capsules whereby it is to be distinguished. 
4. O. ochroleuca, Hook. f. ; shrubby, glabrous except the cymes, leaves 
large quite glabrous beneath, stipules lanceolate 2-fld. caducous, cyme-branches 
spreading, bracts 0 or minute and caducous, calyx-teeth very short, corolla 
cylindric fleshy mouth not dilated, lobes short recurved pubescent within | ith a 
short dorsal spur below the top not keeled at the LAO capsule glabrous. 
Ophiorrhiza, 5 Herb. Ind. Or. H. EET, 
Sixx1« and Buoran HriMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., common. KHASIA Mrs., alt. 
ft. CacHar, Keenan. 
A small shrub. Leaves 4.9 by 13-3 in., elliptie or elliptie-laneeolate, c@udate- 
acuminate, nerves 10-15 pair; petiole long. Cyme-peduncles and branches ve 
more irregularly branched than in O. Mungos. Corolla }-4 in., primrose-iyellow 
orange or greenish, Capsules pedicelled, 3 in. diam. 
9. O. rosea, Hook. f.; shrubb y, glabrous except the cymes, ppaves 
glabrous or with the nerves beneath pu rulous, stipules minute 2-fld. cadWcous, 
