122 LXXV. nUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Nargedia. 
A shrub or small tree, 5-10 ft., branching from the base, branehlets decussate. 
‘Leaves 3-9 by 1-14 in., lanceolate or ovate or linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 
coriaceous, glabrous or nerves beneath pubescent, brown when dry; petiole 4-4 in. ; 
stipules triangular, persistent. Flowers 2 in. long; bracts 2-3. Berry size of a pea. 
52. NARGEDIA, Beddome. 
A glabrous unarmed shrub. Leaves elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate ; stipules 
triangular, acuminate, persistent. Flowers small, axillary, or supra-axillary, 
solitary or fascicled. — Calyz-fube ovoid; limb short, irregularly 4—5-lobed. 
Corolla-tube short, cylindrie, hairy within ; longer than the 4-5 orbieular lobes, 
which are twisted in bud. Anthers 4-5, sessile, linear, glabrous. Ovary 2- 
celled; style short, stigma fusiform 2-cleft or -2rooved ; ovules 4 in each cell, 
pendulous from subapical placentas. Fruit pedicelled, nearly globose, 1-celled, 
2-few-seeded. Seeds srk compressed, testa ?, albumen deeply ruminate ; coty- 
ledons ovate, radicle slender, 
l. N. macrocarpa, Bedd. Fi. Sylv. exxxiv. t. 328, Hyptianthera 
macrocarpa, Thw. Enum. 157, 421. 
CEYLON; Ambagamowa, and between Gallo and Ratnapoora, Walker, Thwaites. 
A shrub 8-10 ft. Leaves 5-8 by 15-2) in., rather coriaceous, brown when dry, 
nerves reticulate; petiole Ä in. Calyæ-tube rounded, apiculate, Corolla-lobes hairy 
down the middle. Fruit about 1 in: long, pedieelled,—I have only imperfect speci- 
mens, and have taken the character of the fruit from Thwaites. 
03. SOY PÓGIOSTA CIIYS, T%waites, 
Erect shrubs, branches terete. Leaves short-petioled, linear- or oblong- 
lanceolate; stipules connate. Flowers small, in axillary or supra-axillary 
peduncled spikes, bracteate and with connate sheathing bracteoles, Calyw-tube 
short; limb produced, persistent, obtusely 4-lobed. —Corolla-tube short, throat 
villous; lobes 4, short, recurved, twisted in bud. _Anthers 4, subsessile, oblong. 
Ovary 2-celled ; style short, btanches short pilose; ovules about 4 in each cell, 
pendulous, placentas small on the septum. Berry ovoid or oblong, 1-celled, 
areolate. Seeds few, pendulous, ovoid, testa coriaceous grooved ; embryo 
small, in fleshy albumen.—Drsrrrs. Confined to Ceylon. 
l. S. pedunculatus, 77. Enum. 157 ; branches scabrous, stipules and 
bracteoles cuspidate striate hairy internally, corolla hairy externally, 
Cryton ; at Pasdoon Corle, at no great elevation, Thwaites. 
Leaves 3-6 by 1-1} in., brown when dry, glabrous or pubeseent on the nerves 
beneath; petiole short.  Peduncles i-i in. Spike like a small catkin, bracts 5-8, 
imbricate, Fruit 4 in. long, ovoid, purplish-black. Seed usually solitary, linear- 
oblong. 
2. S. coffeoides, Thw. Enum. 107; branches glabrous, stipules and 
bracts obtuse glabrous internally, corolla glabrous Rternally. 
Czvrow; Ratnapoora district, at no great elevation, Thwaites. 
Leaves 3-4 by 3-1} in., brown when dry, petiole very short; stipules ovate, 
scarious. Peduncles very short or 0. Spikes ovoid, few-flowered, Be rry red. Seeds 
oblong, striate. 
54. DEPLOSPORA, DC. 
Evergreen shrubs or trees, branches terete. Leaves shortly petioled ; stipules 
triangular, long pointed or acuminate. Flowers small in axillary fascicles or 
Short cymes, polygamo-dicecious, white or greenish; bracts free or connate in a 
