104 LXXV. RUBIACER, (J. D. Hooker.) [ Webera. 
almost hispid; bracts linear. Calyx-teeth subulate. — Corolla-tube 1 in.; lobes ! the 
length of the tube, oblong. Berries size of a pea, with persistent ca yx-teeth. Seeds 
broadly cuneate, sides smooth, back granulate.—-Very near a Bornean species (Beceari; 
n. 1263). 
9. W. mollis, Wall. Cat. 8454 (Rondeletia ?); softly tomentose, leaves 
elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate acuminate, cymes open many- 
flowered with long spreading hairs, calyx-tube slender pubescent much longer 
than the lobes, berries many-seeded, 
SiaArOnE, Wallich; Puxasa, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 894). 
A small tree; branches robust, softly tomentose and covered with long spreading 
hairs, as are the cymes petioles and midrib beneath. Leaves either broad, 6.8 by 
3-4 in., or narrow 4-5 by 1-2 in., uniformly tomentose above, pale brown when dry ; 
petiole short; stipule large, ovate-lanceolate. Cymes subsessile, very many-flowered., 
Calyx-teeth lanceolate, deciduous. ` Corolla-tube > in. 4 times as long as the oblong 
short lobes. Berries size of a pea, Seeds angular, 
"ECT. IL. Pseudixora. Cells of the ovary 1-ovuled. 
T Tube of the corolla shorter than the lobes. 
10. W. stellulata, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous or nearly so, leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate acuminate, nerves 7-9 pair, petiole slender, cymes small sessile or 
shortly peduneled, flowers sessile 2-bracteolate, calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, 
corolla-lobes longer than the tube, the minute subulate tips stellately spread- 
ing in bud. Stylocoryne Webera, Wall. Cat, 840, I. in part. ? Pavetta aristata, 
Wall. Cat. 6169, 
Prxawa, Wallich, Griffith (Kew Distrib, 3086); MALACCA, Maingay (850) ; 
? Tavoy, Gomez. 
Branches slender, smooth, and whole plant either black or dirty green when dry. 
Leaves 6-9 by 2-3 in., membranous, shining above, glabrous or puberulous beneath; 
nerves slender; petiole 1-1 in. ; stipules with a slender cusp. Cymes 1-13 in. diam.; 
bracts subulate-lanceolate, persistent ; branches short and calyx puberulous; flowers 
àin, long. Corolla with a ring of hairs in the throat ; lobes lanceolate, ciliolate: 
Style hirsute; stigma long, fusiform, grooved.—I have not in any specimens (I have 
examined 7) found the corolla to open; the stellate tips of its lobes are remarkable, 
A mere scrap is on the sheet 8401 I. of Wallich’s Herbarium, but good specimens 
were distributed by him under that number to both the Hookerian and Benthamian 
Herbaria. Wallich’s specimen of Pavetta aristata is probably the same, but I have 
no other Tenasserim example, The nerves are more numerous, and it has longer ` 
cusps to the stipules; it is in young fruit only. Maingay in his notes states that the 
ovary-eells have several ovules; I find only one in each. 
ll. W. attenuata, Took. f.; quite glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate 
or oblanceolate acuminate polished above, nerves 5-7 pair very oblique, cymes 
sessile or shortly peduneled brachiate glabrous lower branches rather long, 
flowers pedicelled ebracteolate, calyx-teeth short triangular, corolla glabrous, . 
lobes linear longer than the tube, throat pubescent. Stylocoryne attenuata, 
Voigt Hort. Suburb. Caleut. 377. S. Webera, Wall. Cai. 8401 F, (tn Herb. 
Hook. A Benth.) ; Benth, Fl. Hongk. 156. 
Cultivated in the Calcutta Botanie Gardens; no doubt from China or the Khasia 
Mts. ?—Disrris. Hongkong. 
A shrub or small tree, black when dry. Leaves 3-4 by 1-14 in., coriaceous, nar 
rowed into a petiole 1-3 in. Cynws 1-2 in. high, branches not divaricate except in 
fruit; bracts and bracteoles on the pedicels small; flowers white, 4 in. diam., quite 
glabrous. Stigma fusiform. Fruit size of small pea.— There are no specimens of ` 
this in Wallich’s Herbarium, but good ones were distributed by him to Herbariums 
