/ 
ALvora.] LXXV. RUBIACEEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 145 
Shrubby. Leaves 5-8 by 2-3 in., coriaceous, pale when dry, variable, base always 
‘cuneate or narrowed into the petiole, sometimes puberulous beneath; stipules 1—3 in. 
-Cymes and white flowers very much as in J, villosa, but sessile or shortly pedicelled, 
puberulous or glabrate, and the flowers shorter and corolla-lobes not notched, 
Filaments slender. Fruit the size of a pea, red. Seeds ventrally concave with no 
median ridge (in Roxburgh’s drawing).—<A very large specimen from Rangoon has 
elliptic leaves 9 by 31 in. Wight and Arnott describe the calyx-teeth as twice tho 
length of the ovary, which is not the case. Kurz enumerates 3 yarieties:—1. Rox- 
burghii, with glabrous leaves and sessile or short-peduncled cymes; 2. puberula, with 
leaves puberulous beneath and larger peduncled cymes; 3. pumila, 1-8 ft., flowers 
often pale rose, cymes small short more slender. 
§§§ Branches glabrous. Cymes articulate at the ramifications, corymbiform, 
rarely brachiate, 
B" 24. I. coccinea, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 975; glabrous, leaves sessile 
or subsessile shortly oblong, base rounded or cordate rarely cuneate, tip rounded 
or apiculate, cymes sessile corymbiform dense-flowered, calyx-teeth minute 
shorter than the ovary, corolla-tube 1-13 in., lobes broad acute, mouth naked. 
W. & A. Prodr. 427; Wight Ic. t. 153; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fi. 112; Brand. 
For. Fl. 275; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 26. I. grandiflora, Br, in Bot. Reg. t. 154; 
DC. Prodr. iv. 486 ; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii., Suppl. t. 35. I. propinqua, 
Br, in Wall. Cat. 6119. I. incarnata, DC. Le? I. obovata, Heyne tin Roth 
Nov. Sp. 90. I. Bandhuca, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10; Fl. Ind. i. 976; Wall. Cat. 
6120; DC. l. c. ; Bot. Reg. t. 513; Wight Ic. t. 149, Pavetta coccinea and 
P. incarnata; Blume Bijd. 950. P. Bandhuca, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii, 266,— 
Rheede Hort. Mal, ii, t. 12; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 57. 
Cultivated throughout India, a native of the WrsrERN Pexixsura, in the Concan, 
&e,, Dalzell § Gibson. Currracona, apparently indigenous, J. D. H. 4 T. T. Culti- 
vated in Ava, ManrAnAN, and Burma, Kurz. CEYLON; common, ascending to 2000 
ft., Thwaites. 
A branching shrub; branches strict, rather stout. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., coria- 
ceous, pale when dry; nerves 8-10 pair, distinct; stipules with rigid cusps. Cymes 
rarely shortly peduncled; ramifications very short, articulate; bracts and bracteoles 
subulate; flowers scarlet, sessile or very shortly petioled, Filaments long and anthers 
short for the genus. Stigma with short revolute arms. Fruit sometimes fleshy, size 
of a pea, crowned by the calyx-teeth. Seed very concave ventrally.—Roxburgh dis- 
tinguishes Z. Bandhuca from 1. coccinea by being more branched, with stem-clasping 
obtuse leaves and ovate obtuse corolla-lobes. These characters should be looked to 
in India; they point to intermediates between J. coccinea and stricta. He further 
figures the seed of coccinea as plano-convex. A yellow flowering variety is said to be 
in cultivation, 
25. X. stricta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10; Fi. Ind. i. 979; glabrous, leaves 
sessile or subsessile obovate or obovate-oblong obtuse or subacute base cuneate, 
cymes corymbiform sessile or peduncled, calyx-teeth shorter than the ovary 
obtuse or acute, corolla-tube 2—1 in., lobes rounded, mouth naked. DC. Prodr. 
iv. 486; W. § A. Prodr. 427; Wight Ic. t. 184; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 26; Wall. 
Cat. 6123. I. coccinea, Bot. Mag. 169. I. alba, Rorb. Ul. cc.; Wight Ic. t. 
707; Wall. Cat. 6122. I. blanda, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 100; DC. Lc. 487. E 
incarnata, Rovb.; D. C.l. c. 486. I. crocata, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 782; DC. 
Lc. 486. I. rosea, Wall. Cat. 6124; Bot. Mag. t. 2428; not of Wall. in Roxb. 
FI. Ind, 
Cultivated in various parts of India, but a native of the Moluccas and China, 
according to Roxburgh. Kurz regards it as indigenous in Rawaoox and Upper 
‘TENASSERIM. 
There is little to distinguish this from Z. coccinea but the smaller corolla-lobes 
and form of the leaves, Roxburgh figures the seeds as plano-convex, a character E 
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