Acranthera. | LXXV. RUBIACEX, (J. D. Hooker.) 93 
minal usually long-peduncled, calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, corolla villous, tube 
funnel-shaped, lobes oblong rounded. Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 24. 
Cxxrow; central province, alt. 3-5000 ft. on shaded banks, Macrae, &c. 
A low herb. Leaves 4—7 by 14-3 in., rugose, blaek when dry, narrowed into the 
petiole. Cyme and its stout peduncle densely hirsute. Calyx-lobes 4-4 in. Corolla 
lin, long. Berry hirsute, 2 in., fusiform. 
5. A. grandiflora, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 25; silkily villous, stem 
short, leaves elliptic or oblong-obovate tip rounded glabrate above pubescent on 
the nerves beneath, cymes subterminal long-peduncled silky, calyx-lobes linear 
dcute or obtuse, corolla villous, tube very long narrowly funnel-shaped, lobes 
oblong rounded. 
'TTrxNEVELLY ; in moist forests, alt. 2-3000 ft., Beddome. 
Very near A. zeylanica, but the pubescence of the stem and peduncle and cyme is 
more silky, the leaves glabrous or with soft hairs above, quite glabrous beneath 
between the nerves; the calyx-lobes are under à in. and quite linear, and the pale 
blue corolla-tube 13 in. long. 
6. A. anamallica, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 25; almost stemless, leaves 
elongate obovate-oblong tip rounded with scattered bristly hairs above, pubes- 
cent on the nerves beneath, cymes subsessile silkily pubescent, calyx-lobes short 
ovate re elliptic spreading, corolla funnel-shaped pubescent, lobes oblong 
rounded. 
TiNNEVELLY; Anamallay Mts., alt. 4500 ft. in moist woods, Beddome. 
Stem 4-1 in., with strong roots from the base. Leaves 2-6 by 14 in., black when 
dry, narrowed to the base but not into the petiole, which is 1-2 in, and densely 
tomentose. Cymes many-flowered, flowers pedicelled. Calyx-lobes & in. Corolla 1 in. 
long, deep blue. 
31. LUCINZBA, DC. 
Erect or twining glabrous shrubs, Leaves coriaceous, stipules small or large. 
Flowers white, 6-10 together, crowded on peduncled discoid receptacles which 
are axillary or terminal and solitary or umbelled. Calyx-tube turbinate, limb 
annular or cupular, quite entire persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube broad, 
throat bearded, lobes 4, coriaceous, valvate in bud. Stamens 4, in the tube of 
the corolla, filaments short villous; anthers narrow, included. Ovary 2-celled ; 
style filiform or thickened below the middle, stigmas 2 linear or spathulate ; 
ovules numerous, on fleshy peltate placentas. Berry globose or turbinate, 2- 
celled, many-seeded. Seeds compressed, testa thickly coriaceous smooth; 
embryo minute in fleshy albumen.—DISTRIB. Species 6, Malayan. 
1. b. Morinda, DC. Prodr. iv. 308; branches flexuous, leaves elliptie 
or ovate acute shortly petioled, stipules triangular. Wall. Cat. 8437. Morinda 
polysperma, Jack in Mal. Misc. i. 14; Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey § Wail. ii. 204. 
Littoral. SINGAPORE, Jack; Malacca, Griffith, Maingay; Pxwawo, Wallich.— 
Disrris. Malay Archipelago. 
Erect, glabrous or nearly so, branches stout. Leaves 2-3 in. brown when dry, 
nerves slender; petiole 4 in. Peduncles solitary in opposite axils, or terminal and 
often subumbellate. Heads 3 in. diam., few-flowered. Corolla de in., densely hairy 
within. Berries crowded, 6-8 in a head, broadly turbinate, areolate. 
39, LEUCO CODON, Gardn. 
A climbing glabrous epiphytic rooting shrub. Leaves coriaceous; stipules 
large, oblong, connate at the base, tip 9-toothed. Flowers white, in solitary 
terminal peduncled involucrate heads; involucre bell-shaped with the flowers 
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