96 LXXV. RUBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Adenosaeme. 
A lax rooting shrub, bark green opaque. Leaves 7-10in., black when dry; petiole 
14-3 in.; stipules 3-1 in, diam., orbicular, obtuse, glabrous. F/owers in rounded 
corymbs at the ends of the horizontal eyme-branches. Calya-tube hemispheric, teeth 
oblong-ovate recurved. Corolla in the only flowers seen shorter than the calyx-teeth, 
with lanceolate lobes and exserted stamens. Berries 2-celled, white. : 
9. A. macrostachya, Hook. f.; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate 
quite glabrous on both surfaces, stipules very large foliaceous, cymes terminal 
with their peduncles glabrous very slender longer than the leaves, bracts ovate, 
flowers on slender pedicels lax. 
Misumt hills, in Upper Assam, Griffith. 
Very similar to A. stipulata, but the leaves, which are a foot long, are quite 
glabrous, the glabrous cyme far more slender, a foot long, with a peduncle 8 in. long 
and very distant slender branches 3-5 in. long, bearing loose 3-chotomous peduncles 
with slender pedicels; the bracts, too, are short and broad. 
** Berry 5—6-celled. 
. 4. A. Lawii, Hook. €: leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate puberulous 
beneath, stipules small oblong-lanceolate, cymes terminal and axillary sessile or 
shortly peduncled pubescent, branches divaricating. Lawia acuminata, Wight 
Ic. t. 1070, and in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 15. 
Mountains of the Carnatic and TRAVANCORE, Law, Wight, &c. 
So similar to A. longifolia that I doubt its being other than a form of that plant, 
with a 5-6-celled ovary. The corolla in the only flowers seen is very shortly tubular, 
shorter than the subulate-lanceolate calyx-teeth and basal stamens; no doubt there 
are other forms (as in the case of A. longifolia). 
00. M'YRIONZEZURON, Wal. 
Small shrubs with stout branches and spongy bark. Leaves and stipules 
large. Flowers white, in large peduncled terminal rarely axillary capitate or 
corymbose cymes; bracis rigid, lanceolate. Calyx-tube ovoid; lobes 5, lanceo- 
late, exceeding the corolla, rigid, persistent. Corolla small, tubular, throat 
villous; lobes short, erect, hispid, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, in the tube of the 
corolla, filaments short, subulate; anthers linear, included. Ovary 2-celled ; 
style short, stigmas 2 linear-oblong coherent; ovules very numerous, on hemi- 
spheric placentas. Berry ovoid, white, dry or fleshy, with 2 many-seeded cells. 
Seeds minute, angled, testa pitted; embryo minute in fleshy albumen.— DISTRIB. 
Species 6 or 8, in India beyond the Ganges and Borneo. 
l. M. nutans, Vall. Cat. 6225; leaves broadly elliptic or obovate 
abruptly acuminate, nerves 15-20 pair nearly horizontal, heads terminal and 
axillary shortly peduncled dense-flowered, calyx-teeth subulate-lanceolate rigid. 
Kurz For. Fl, ii. 55. 
Assam, Hamilton; Kuasta Mrs., alt. 0-3000 ft, De Silva, &e.; CHITTAGONG 
Hits, C. B. Clarke. . 
A small erect shrub, 2-3 ft.; branches very stout, woody, with thick pale spongy 
bark. Leaves 5-10 by 34-5} in., coriaceous, green when dry, nerves often pubescent 
beneath; petiole 1-2 in.; stipules 4-4 in., triangular-lanceolate. Heads 1-14 in. 
diam., usually globose, rarely loose with the egere: exposed, glabrous or pubes- 
cent; bracteoles and calyx-teeth 3 in., subulate, rigid, persistent, longer than the 
tubular corolla, which has short obtuse lobes pubescent on the back. Fruit dry. 
Van. parviflora; flowers corymbose smaller.—Birma, Griffith. 
2. M. Clarkei, Hook. f.; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, nerves 
12-15 pair slender very obliquely arched, peduncles simple or branched, calyx- 
teeth filiform, 
