150 LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pavetta. 
longer, and ovules usually attached to a me placenta.—DrsTRIB. species 
about 60, in the tropics of the Old World. 
Pavetta, as here limited, differs from Zrora in the usually membranous mo. 3 or 
less sheathing stipulary bracts at the lower cyme branches, and the style twice as 
long as tho corolla-tube with a slender entire rarely notched stigma, often more 
slender than the style itself. Various pentamerous species placed in Pavetía by 
authors are in this work referred to Webera, with which they agree in habit, and the 
short hairy style with a long fusiform grooved stigma, 
* Calyx-teeth much shorter than the ovary. 
l. P. indica, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 490; glabrous pubescent or tomen- 
tose, leaves membranous elliptic elliptic-lanceolate obovate or oblanceolate 
rarely orbicular obtuse acute acuminate or caudate, cymes terminal sessile 
corymbiform, flowers pedicelled, calyx truncate or with very short triangular 
teeth, corolla-tube 1-1 in. 
Throughout India from the Western HiwaravA in Garwnar (var. tomentosa), 
ascending to 4000 ft., to Buoran and Daa, and southwards to CEYLON, MALACCA, 
and Penanc.—Distris. Malay Archipelago, 8. China, N. Australia. 
One of the most common and variable Indian small trees or bushes. Leaves pale 
or greenish when dry, 3-9 by 3-3 in., a foot long in some Khasian specimens ; petiole 
4-1} in. stipules short, broad. Cymes 1-5 in. diam., rounded, or reduced to few 
scattered flowers; bracts broad, membranous, lower cupular; flowers on slender 
pedicels, white, rather fragrant. Corolla-tube twice or thrice as long as the oblong 
lobes. Stigma very slender, fusiform. Berry size of a pea, 2-seeded.—F lowers occa- 
sionally 5-merous (Wight & Arnott). 
Var. 1. indica proper; leaves glabrous beneath or nearly so, cymes glabrate, 
corolla glabrous. P. indica, Linn.; Wall. Cat. 6175, excl. F.; W. d A, Prodr. 431; 
Wight Ic. t. 148; Thw. Enum. 155; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 112; Brandis For. Ft. 
275. P. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6177, and P. graciliflora, 6178. P. alba, Vahl 
Symb. iii. ll. P. petiolaris, Wall. Cat. 6186. Ixora paniculata, Lamk. Dict. iii. 344. 
I. Pavetta, Roxb, Fl. Ind. i. 380; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 18; Rheede Hort. Mal. xix. t. 10. 
Thwaites discriminates two varieties:—1. With few-flowered cymes, slender pedicels, 
and narrow lanceolate leaves; 2. With puberulous cymes and leaves pubescent 
beneath: both are found in Continental India, with many more founded on as slight 
characters, A third Ceylon one, montana, I have retained as distinct. 
(159 Var. 2. polyantha; Wall. Cat. 6176 (sp.); cymes pubescent, flowers densely 
crowded. P. indica, Wall. Cat. 6175 F.; Bot, Reg. t. 198. P. Rothiana, DC. Prodr. 
iv. 491; W. § A. Prodr. 431. P. villosa, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 88, not of Vahl. 
Ixora tomentosa, var. glabrescens, Kurz For. ll. ii. 19. 
Van. 3. fomentosa, Roxb. in Smith Cyelop. (sp.); leaves glabrous or softly or 
harshly puberulous above, beneath and the cymes pubescent tomentose or softly 
villous. I. tomentosa, DC. Prodr. iv. 490; Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 89; W. & A. 
Prodr. 431; ? Thw. Enum. 156; Brand. For. Fl. 275; Wall. Cat. 6173. P. Brunonis, 
Wight Ic. t. 1065. P. velutina, mollis, and canescens, Wall. Cat. 6174, 6179, 6181. 
Ixora tomentosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 11; FI. Ind. i. 886; Wight Ie. t. 186; Kurz For. 
FL ii. 19.—As common and widely spread as var. 1, but less variable in form of 
leaf. 
Van. 4. montana, Thw. mss.; quite glabrous, leaves 2-3 in. coriaceous narrowly 
elliptic-oblong, tip rounded, corolla-tube 1 in., style stout, stigma elavate.— Ceylon 
common, alt. 3—4000 ft., Thwaites. D 
Van. 5. minor; quite glabrous, leaves small (2-4 in.) narrowly obovate or 
elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or acute, cymes terminal sessile corymbiform, ealyx-teeth 
subulate acute, corolla J-1 in., stigma subclavate.—Shevagherry hills, Wight (Kew 
Distrib. 1483).—Looks different from P. indica in the smaller size of oll its parts, 
acute calyx-teeth, and rather more clavate stigma. 
2. P. subcapitata, Mook. f.; leaves elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acumi- 
nate finely pubescent beneath, cymes terminal sessile capitate many-flowered, 
