Adenosacme. | LXXV. RUBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 95 
PrNaNG ; on the hill, Wallich. 
Branches cylindric, with pale smooth bark, Leaves 4-5 by 11-2 in., elliptic, 
subacute, brown and shining when dry, nerves few; petiole 1-lin. Pedwacles 1-2in.; 
flowers few, small, shortly pedicelled. Corolla l in., fleshy, lobes longer than the 
tube,—This curious plant has been collected by Wallich alone in 1822, 
90, ADENOSACME, Wall. 
Small shrubs. Leaves very membranous, many-nerved ; stipules oblong or 
lanceolate or foliaceous, sometimes toothed and glandular. Flowers white, 
yellow or greenish, in axillary and terminal panicled cymes with spreading 
branches; bracts often glandular. Calyx-tube globose or hemispheric, lobes 
4-6, persistent. Corolla tubular, short or long; lobes 4-6, triangular, valvate 
in bud, with everted margins, Stamens 4-6, inserted in the tube, filaments 
short; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 2- or 5-6-celled ; style slender or thickened 
above, stigmas 2- or 5-6 linear; ovules very numerous, on fleshy peltate 
placentas. Berry small, globose, 4~-6-lobed, coriaceous or fleshy, 2- or 5-6- 
celled, indehiscent or loculicidal at the crown, many-seeded, placentas globose. 
Seeds minute, angled, testa dotted; embryo minute, in fleshy albumen.— 
DISTRIB. Species 4-5, Indian and Malayan, 
The flowers of this genus are di- or tri-morphie, 
* Berry 2-celled, white, 
l. A. longifolia, JVall. Cat. 6280; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed 
to a long acuminate point pubescent or puberulous beneath, stipules small 
oblong-lanceolate, cymes terminal and axillary sessile or shortly peduncled, 
branches slender divaricating, corolla }-? in, Kurz For. Fil. ii. 160. A. 
malayana, Wall. Cat. 6282. Bertiera javanica and fasciculata, Blume Bid. 
987; DC. Prodr. iv. 392. Mycetia javanica, Reinw. Rondeletia longifolia, 
Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 137; Don Prodr. 188. Wend- 
landia longifolia, DC. l. c. 412. W. malayana, G, Don Gen. Syst. iii, 519, 
SUBTROPICAL Himataya and mountains of Eastern Bengal from Kumaon, alt. 
4000 ft., to SixxrM, alt. 2-5000 ft.; Kuasta Mrs., alt. 0-5000 ft.; Assam, CACHAR, 
CHITTAGONG, MuxNIPOnE, TENASSERIM, Maracca, and PENANG. 
A bush with very brittle branches, covered with smooth yellowish shining spongy 
bark. Leaves 4-10 in., very variable in width, narrowed into the slender petiole 
4-24 in. long, above glabrous puberulous pubescent or with small scattered hairs, 
beneath always more pubescent or tomentose than above; stipules oblong-lanceolate 
entire or 2-fid, glabrous hairy or with marginal glands. Cymes often 6-8 in. across, 
3-chotomously branched, glabrous or pubescent; branches very slender, zig-zag ; 
bracts and bracteoles small, glandular; flowers pedicelled, solitary or fascicled. 
Calyx-tube A in., hemispheric or subglobose; teeth about as long, ovate subulate or 
lanceolate and sinus glandular, persistent. Corolla fleshy, 1-3 in., glabrous or pubes- 
cent, tubular, yellow; lobes small, broadly ovate. Berries } in. diam., always white.— 
Flowers (as observed by Wallich and C. B. Clarke) di- or tri-morphous; one form has 
short styles and stamens inserted over the ring of hairs above the middle of the tube; 
in another the style is long, and the stamens basal inserted below the ring of hairs; 
the third has a short wide corolla with the stamens about its middle. In diseased 
specimens the bracts and calyx-teeth become very hard short broad and toothed, 
reflexed, white like the bark, and shining. 
2, A. stipulata, Hook. if leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, nerves puberulous beneath, stipules very large foliaceous, cymes terminal 
with their peduncles pubescent shorter than the leaves, bracts linear, flowers 
shortly pedicelled corymbose. 
E. Nirat and Srxxrm, alt. 2-5000 ft. in very wet places, J. D. H., C. B. Clarke, &e. 
