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Canthiwm.] LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 133 
Western PrxiNsULA, on the Ghats, alt. 4-8000 ft., from the Conean southwardsi 
TenassertM, Wallich, Helfer (Kew Distrib. 2972); Ava, Wallich. 
An evergreen tree, 50 ft. Leaves very coriaceous, similar to the ordinary form 
of C. didymum, of which this is probably a variety. Korthal’s C. umbellatum, with a 
slender peduncle, is a very different plant. 
4. C. neilgherrense, Wight Ic. t. 1064 bis; unarmed, leaves elliptic- 
ovate obtuse glabrous or setose beneath, flowers 5-merous, pedicels very short 
axillary fascicled, fruits obovoid or obcordate compressed subdidymous, putamen 
smooth. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 221 A.; For. Man. 134, 6 (Plectronia). 
Nincuerry and Purxxy Mrs., Wight, G. Thomson. 
An evergreen shrub or tree; branches opposite, glabrous. Leaves Cé by 11-2 
in., rather coriaceous, dark green or black when dry; peticle 3—4 in. Flowers shortly 
pedicelled, sometimes on a very short peduncle; pedicels 3-3 in. Fruit nearly $ in.; 
pericarp thin. 
Var. 1; leaves coriaceous glabrous, stipules 1-3 in.—Nilgherrys, Wight (Kew 
Distrib. 1424, 1425). 
Var. 2; leaves less coriaceous hirsute beneath or covered with scattered rigid 
hairs, stipules small.—Pulney Mts. (Kew Distrib. 1422, 1426). 
5. C. ficiforme, Hook. f., unarmed, glabrous, leaves elliptic obtusely 
acuminate, flowers 5-merous fascicled on a very short peduncle, fruit very large 
pyriform stoutly pedicelled, putamen thick woody very deeply sinuously 
grooved. 
Mysore; Shevagherry hills, Wight. 
Branches very stout, and leaves almost black when dry. Leaves 3-4 by 1-1} in, 
very thickly coriaceous, narrowed into a very stout petiole; nerves oblique, slender; 
stipules short, broad. Peduncles 4 in. or less, sometimes branched; pedicels as long. 
Fruit 1-1} in., somewhat compressed, narrowed into a pedicel } in. long; putamen re- 
sembling a small walnut. : 
6. C. glabrum, Blume Bijd. 967 ; unarmed, glabrous, leaves large ovate 
subacute, cymes small compressed shortly peduncled, flowers 5-merous, fruit 
large ellipsoid or subovoid with 2 very smooth 3-gonous pyrenes. DC. Prodr. 
iv. 474; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 35 (Plectronia). Vangueria ? atroviridis, Wall. Cat. 
8412. Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8303. 
From Tenasserm, Peau, and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, to SINGAPORE and PENANG, 
Wallich, &c., Maingay (Kew Distrib. 863).—Distris. Java. 
A small tree; branches stout, upper compressed. Leaves 4-6 by 13-3 in., dull. 
green when dry, thinly coriaceous; nerves few, distant; petiole 1-3 in.; stipules 
short. Cymes with short spreading branches; flowers small, shortly peduncled. 
Corolla-tube subglobose, -} in. ; lobes as long. Stigma mitriform, notched, Fruit 4-1 
in. long; pyrenes abruptly narrowed and compressed parallel to the ventral face at 
the top. 
7. ©. confertum, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 235; unarmed, 
pens leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate obtusely caudate-acuminate, flowers 
ascicled shortly pedicelled 5-merous, fruit small obovoid or obcordate subcom- 
mes putamen woody rugose. C. glomerulatum, Mig. FI. Ind. Bat., suppl. 
. Memecylon pauciflorum, Wall. Cat. 4114. _ 
Penana, SINGAPORE, and Matacca, Wallich, Griffith (Kew Distrib, 2973), Maingay 
(862, 942).—Disrris, Malay Archipelago. 
Branches slender. Leaves 3-5 by 3-2 in., dull green when dry, opaque, coriaceous ; 
nerves slender; petiole and stipules short. Flowers small, often unisexual ; buds ob- 
tuse; pedicel 2d in. Corolla-tube and lobes very short. Style glabrous. Fruit $ 
