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Petunga.) LXXV. RUBIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 121 
Prxaxa, Phillips, Wallich.- Distr. Java. 
Leaves 5-8 by 14-21 in, brown when dry, caudate-acuminate; petiole 4 in.; 
stipules broad, 3 in. long, with a hairy keel ; axils hairy as in P. Roxburghii. Spikes 
sessile or shortly-peduncled, 4 in. Fruit not seen. — Leaves much longer, broader and: 
more acuminate than in P. Rowburghii, and spikes very different. 
3. P. venulosa, Hook. f.; stipules persistent, spikes elongate glabrous, 
berry pytiform. Randia venulosa, Wal. Cat, 8501. 
Dys and Sincarorn, Wallich, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2829) ; Maingay (911). 
Leaves 5-7 by 14-25 in., caudate-acuminate, much more coriaceous than in P. Rox- 
burghii and longifolia ; petiole stout, 1-3 in.; stipules 3 in., keeled, oblong-ovate.. 
Spikes stout, 1-8 in., erect horizontal or deflexed. Berry 4 in. long, on a pedicel of 
equal length. 
50. MORINDOPSIS, Mook. f. 
A small glabrous tree, branches rounded, ultimate compressed. Leaves sub-- 
sessile ; stipules broad, persistent. Flowers dicecious, small, white, in opposite 
supra-axillary peduncled heads, or 9 rarely solitary. Fl. d: calya-tube 
hemispheric, 4-5-toothed. Corolla shortly campanulate, throat villous; lobes 
4-5, rounded, twisted in bud. Anthers 4-5, sessile, linear-oblong, acute. Disk 
hemispheric. Style with 2 erect hairy arms, Fl. 9: calyz-tube oblong, 8- 
‘coved; limb eupular, 4-lobed, hairy within. Corolla and style of the d. 
Ovary 2-celld; ovules many on peltate placentas. Berry elongate-oblong, 
3-grooved, crowned by the calyx-limb, 2-celled, few- or many-seeded. Seeds 
imbricated downwards, ovoid, acute at both ends. 
1. M. capillaris, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1874, ii. 189; For. FI. ii. 52. 
Psilobium capillare, Kurz l. e. 1872, ii. 313. Morinda, Wall. Cat. 8433, 
8454. 
Pravu and TENASSERIM, common, Wallich, &c. 
An evergreen tree, 25 ft. Leaves 3—6 by 1-2 in., polymorphous, brown when dry, 
lanceolate oblong or elliptic, acute or acuminate, base acute rounded or subcordate ; 
stipules ovate, acute. Peduneles of d. 4-3 in., often capillary, often opposite ; of 9 
0 or very short, rarely long. Heads 4-3 in. diam.; d f. j in.; 9 larger; ovary 
urceolate, erowned with the triangular ciliate ealyx-teeth. Berry 1 in.—Kurz, who- 
must know this genus well, reduces all the forms to one; they differ, however, greatly 
in length, breadth, and shape of leaves, and in the length of the peduncles. 
5l. HYPTIANTHERA, IA A. 
A glabrous shrub, branches terete. Leaves shortly petioled ; stipules trian- 
gular, persistent, Flowers small, white, sessile in axillary fascicles, racteolate. 
Calyx-tube turbinate; lobes 5, acute, persistent. Corolla-tube short, hairy 
within; lobes 4-5, spreading, twisted in bud. Anthers 4-5, sessile, oblong, 
obtuse, pubescent at the base and back. Disk annular. Ovary 2-celled ; style 
short, included, branches large long erect hispid; ovules 6-10 in each cell, pen- 
dulous from its apex. Berry ovoid or globose. Seeds pendulous, imbricated, 
compressed and angled, testa thick fibrous and plaited; embryo small. 
1. H. stricta, JV. $ A. Prodr. 899; Brand. For. Fl. 974. Randia 
stricta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 15; FI. Ind. i. 526; DC. Prodr. iv. 386. Macro- 
cnemum strictum, Willd. in Roem. & Sch. Syst. v. 6. Rondeletia stricta, Roth 
Nov. sp. 140, excl. syn. Ilypobathrum strictum, Kurz For. FI ii. 50. Rubiacea, 
Wall. Cat. 8138 in part, 8318, 8907. 
NomrHERN IxprA and Bencar, from Oudh to Birma, common, especially in E. 
Bengal, ascending the outer Himalaya and Khasia Mts. to 4000 ft.—Dusrrm. Ava. 
