Diplospora.] LXXV. RUBIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 125 
10. D. Kurzii, Hook. f.; glabrous, leaves narrowly elliptic-lanceolate 
subcaudate-acuminate membranous, secondary nerves horizontal, stipules with 
setaceous points, flowers subcapitate minute, calyx calyculate, limb truncate, 
fruit small globose. . Urophyllum biloculare, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 
313; For. FT. ii. 53. 
Marrapan; in tropical forests, alt. 2-3000 ft., very rare, Kurz. 
A small evergreen tree, Leaves 5-7 by 11-2 in., pale greenish when dry, shining 
above, membranous; nerves arched, joined by the very slender horizontal veins ; 
petiole very short; stipules connate, bases triangular, puberulous. Flowers in very 
slender clusters. Calyx puberulous. Fruit about } in. diam., sessile, orange- 
coloured; pericarp thin; cells 3-4-seeded. Seeds rugulose on the back.—The veins 
are more regular and parallel than in any other species, recalling those of a Urophyl- 
lum or Lasianthus. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
D.?; Malacea, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 906, Coffea); glabrous, leaves elliptic 2-3 
in. very opaque, nerves indistinct, stipules triangular acuminate, fruit sessile globose 
1-2 in. diam., pericarp thick, cells 2- or more-seeded, seeds large much compressed.— 
Resembles a plant from the Buitenzorg garden in Java, marked Canthium? in the 
Caleutta Herbarium. 
55. SCYPHIPHORA, Gaertn. 
A glabrous tree, branches stout, nodose, terete, young gummy. Leaves 
coriaceous, obovate, obtuse; stipules broad. Flowers small, in dense shortly 
peduncled axillary cymes. Calyx-tube elongate-obconic ; limb cupular, 4-5- 
toothed, persistent. Corolla-tube cylindric, throat dilated, hairy; lobes 4-5 
oblong, twisted in bud. Stamens 4-5, filaments inserted between the lobes 
short subulate; anthers narrowly sagittate. Disk annular, lobed. Ovary with 
2 narrow cells; style filiform, branches linear obtuse; ovules 2 in each cell, 
inserted on the middle of the septum, upper ascending, lower pendulous, funicles 
contiguous dividing the cell into two. Drupe subcylindric, 8-10-grooved and 
winged, with 2 crustaceous connate 4—5-ribbed pyrenes, Seeds subcylindrie, 
testa membranous, albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong. 
1. S. hydrophyllacea, Gaertn. Fruct. iii. 91, t. 196; DC. Prodr. iv. 
577; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 4. Epithinia malayana, Jack in Mal. Misc. i. 12; Wall. 
Cat. 8444; DC. l. c. 478; W. & A. Prodr. 424, Epithinia sp., Griff. Notul. 
iv. 269; Ic. Pl. Asiat. 478 and 644 A. (Lumnitzera). Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 
9055, A. in part. 
Mangrove swamps on the Carnatic coast, Wight; MALAYAN PzwiNsULA, the 
ANDAMAN Istanps, and Crvrox.—Disrnrs. Malay Archipelago to N. Australia, Phi- 
lippines, and New Caledonia. 
A small evergreen tree; trunk short, simple; crown rounded. Leaves 2 by llin., 
tip rounded, brown when dry, glossy, nerves few and inconspicuous ` petiole 1—j in. 
Flowers subsessile, white or reddish. Calyx 3 im. Corolla-tube exceeding the calyx. 
Drupe } in. long. 
56. JACKIA, Wal. 
A lofty umbrageous tree; branches robust, 4-angled. Zeaves intra-petiolar, 
broad, sheathing, ciliate, hairy within. Flowers spicate, recurved; spikes 
opposite, in long peduncled pendulous axillary cymes; bracts distichous, lower 
subfoliaceous often connate. Calyx-tube obconic, limb unilateral; lobes 5, 
spreading, with interposed teeth, at length foliaceous, coriaceous, veined, per- 
sistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, throat pubescent; lobes 5, plaited, lanceolate, 
cuspidate, valvate in bud. Anthers 5, subsessile in the throat. Disk hairy. 
