-Parophiorrhiza.] LXXV; RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 85 
26. PAROPHIORRHIZA, C. B. Clarke. 
A very small villous herb; branches round ; habit altogether of Ophiorrhiza. 
Leaves opposite, petioled; stipules deciduous. Cymes axillary, long-peduncled, 
ultimately ebracteolate; flowers small, scattered. Capsule widely-obovate, 
-divaricate, two-horned at the summit, dehiscent as in Ophiorrhiza. Seeds very 
many, black, spherical, covered with raised points. 
This genus closely resembles Ophiorrhiza and Polyura, but the seeds are altogether 
-~ different; the cymes are not clearly secund. 
l. P. khasiana, C. B. Clarke. 
KnuasrA Mrs.; Churra Coal Hill, ait. 4200 ft., C. B. Clarke. 
Woody stem, very short; annual flowering branches decumbent, short. Leaves 24 
Dy 1 in., oblong, narrowed at each end, not very acute; petiole} in. Peduncles 1-24 
in. Capsule A by } in—Described from Mr. Clarke's mss. 
27. CARLEMANNIA, Benth. : 
Branched herbs. Leaves obliquely elliptic, crenate-serrate ; stipules of minute 
interpetiolar teeth. Flowers small, white, yellowish or pink, in terminal 
peduncled cymes. Calyx-tube subglobose; lobes 4-5, unequal, persistent. 
Corolla tubular ; lobes 4-5, short, subequal, subimbricate in bud. Stamens 2, 
in the middle of the tube, filaments short, flattened ; anthers dehiscing laterally 
included. Disk 2-4-lobed or -parted. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, stigma 
clavate 2-fid; ovules numerous, on basal ascending placentas. Capsule mem- 
branous, more or less pyramidal and 4-lobed, 2-celled, loculicidally 2-valved, 
many-seeded. Seeds minute, ovoid, testa smooth or reticulated, adhering to the 
granular or horny albumen; embryo microscopic.—DIsTRIB. Indian. 
1. C. Griffithii, Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. v. 308; cymes glabrous or 
uberulous, bracteoles and calyx-teeth small, capsule obscurely pyramidal 4- 
lobed. 
Eastern Data: Sikkim and Bhotan, alt. 2-6000 ft. Kasia Mrs., alt. 
2-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. 
A tall branched herb, glabrous except the cymes. — Leaves 3-5 in., caudate-acumi- 
nate, membranous, serrate; petiole 1-3 in. Cymes open, panicled or corymbose, 1-13 
in. diam.; bracteoles +) in., linear; flowers yellow, $ in. Calyx-tube globose; lobes 
linear-oblong, obtuse.  Corolla-limb narrowly funnel-shaped; lobes small, rounded. 
Capsules à in. diam. 
2. C. congesta, Hook. f.in Herb. Ind. Or.; cymes sparsely hispid, 
bracteoles large oblong ciliate, calyx-teeth oblong-lanceolate ciliate much larger 
than the ovary, capsule broadly pyramidal sparsely hispid. r 
Smxim Hımaraya, alt. 4-7500 ft., J. D. H. §& T. T., C. B. Clarke. 
Foliage and habit of C. Grifithkii, but leaves sparsely hairy on both surfaces, cymes 
often dense-flowered with large bracteoles, calyx quite different, corolla sparsely his- 
pid, larger, more funnel-shaped, with larger lobes. ` 
3. C. tetragona, Hook. f., cymes pubescent, branches elongate slender 
with subsessile secund flowers, bracteoles minute, calyx-teeth linear erect much 
longer than the ovary, capsule broadly pyramidal and stellately 4-lobed. 1 
T Hits; in shaded cultivated places, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2841). 
Appafentl; a prostrate shrub rooting at the nodes, with ascending pubescent 
branehes| Leaves 1-2} in., with scattered pubescence on both surfaces, Cyme-branches 
1-2 in., suberect, very slender, bearing on one side distant single or pairs of shortly 
