Lvora.] LXXV. RUBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 149 
Wight Ic. t. 318; Dalz. §& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 113; Kurz For. Fl. ii, 23, I, 
affinis, Wall. Cat. 0144, SL densa, Br. in Wall. Cat, 6150. 
WESTERN PENINSULA, or the Ghats from the Conean southwards; EASTERN PENIN- 
SULA, from Drop to Maracca; Penance, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 859); Cacuar, 
Keenan.—Disrris. Birma, Malay Archipelago. 
An evergreen tree or large shrub, branchlets and inflorescence as well as the 
leaves black when dry. Leaves 5-7 by 1-23 in., membranous, base rounded or acute, 
upper pair rarely small elliptic and sessile; nerves very slender; petiole -4 in. ; 
stipules with long hair-like cusps 3 in. long, or broad and shortly cuspidate. Cymes 
2-6 in. broad, shorter than broad; peduncles erect, 2 in. and under or 0; bracts very 
slender, persistent or not ; bracteoles subulate, very persistent ; flowers few or nume- 
rous, white, odorous ; lobes of corolla forming a very narrow bud not much broader 
than the tube. Calyx-teeth short or long, always acute or acuminate. Filaments 
slender; anthers very long, almost filiform. Fruit size of a pea, glabrous or didy 
mous. Seed plano-convex (as far as I can ascertain) ——The Cachar specimens have 
shorter calyx-lobes than the others. Apparently a common and a variable Malayan 
plant, published under several names, as laxiflora, Hassk.; subulata, Teysm. & 
Binnend ; and acutiflora, Reinw. The J. densa, Br., from Penang, is probably a state 
of this with more coriaceous elliptic-lanceolate leaves, of a paler colour; the flowers 
are stated to be red, but as there are two plants on the sheet no confidence can be 
placed in the ticket. 
Van. arguta; leaves narrowly oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate 4-5 
by 1-14 in.—I. ? arguta, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6157. Western Peninsula, Heyne ; Purwur 
Ghat, Bombay, Ritchie. 
37. X. erubescens, Wall. Cat. 6143; glabrous, black when dry, branches 
slender, leaves sessile or subsessile elliptic-oblong, tip rounded or obtuse, base 
cuneate or rounded, nerves 8-12 pair, upper pair often cordate, cymes peduncled 
or sessile brachiate, branches slender, stipules with slender cusps, calyx-teeth 
very small subacute, corolla-tube 4 in., lobes slender, mouth naked, stigma long 
arms slender. G. Don Gen. S; yst. iii. 571 (character erroneous). I, memecy- 
lifolia, Kurz in Journ. As, Soc, 1872, ii. 816; For. FI. ii. 24. 
Marraran and Tenassertm, Wallich, Helfer, Kurz; Moulmein, Griffith. 
Doubtfully distinct from Z. nigricans by the subsessile more oblong leaves, obtuse 
at both ends, with fewer nerves; the peculiar buds are identical. Kurz makes Z. 
erubescens a var. of nigricans, distinguished by the obtuse corolla-lobes, but does not 
describe those of his Z. memeeylifolia, which is identical with Wallich’s erubescens, 
and the corolla-lobes of which are exactly like that of nigricans proper. 
IMPERFECTLY — DOUBTFUL, AND REJECTED SPECIES. 
I. eravorwa, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 27; glabrous, leaves 4-6 in. oblong to elliptic- 
lanceolate shortly acuminate, ies ‘acute, “petiole 1-2 in., cymes corymbiform sessile, 
flowers crowded scarlet, calyx globose, teeth short triangular 2 acute 2 obtuse, 
corolla-tube 13 in., lobes ovate- lanceolate acute. —Upper Tenasserim. 
I. PANICULATA, "Hb. Rottler in Wall. Cat. 6168; glabrous, slender, leaves 3-4 in, 
oblong obtuse thin, petiole very short, stipules short cuspidate, peduncles 3 in. slender, 
cymes brachiate, branches 1-2 in. slender shortly branched at the end, flowers few 
sessile and pedicelled, calyx-teeth minute acute, corolla-tube 1 in., lobes linear-oblong, 
mouth glabrous.-Herd. Heyne, from Rottler.—I think this is Z. oblonga, Br., of 
Singapore and Java, whence possibly Rottler procured it. 
I. WarLicun, W. d A. Prodr. 428; not of Wight Herb. This is probably L 
cuneifolia. i 
I. arrenvata, Wall. Cat. 6164, is Chasalia curviflora, Thw. 
67. PAVETTA, Linn. 
Characters of Ivora, but stipular bracts membranous, leaves usually more 
membranous, stipules more united into an intrapetiolar sheath, style much 
