Mord, LXXV. RUBIACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 157 
tapering into the petiole, peduncles long or short solitary leaf-opposed rarely 2-3- 
nate and terminal, drupes free. Wall. Cat. 8420; DC. Prodr. iv. 447; Kurz 
For. Fl. ii. 61. M. squarrosa, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 535; DC. l.c, 
Morinda sp., Wall. Cat. 8423 in part, 8426, 8427, and Psychotria (? Morinda), 
8365. 
TnorrcArn Hiataya, wild and cultivated, from Nipal eastwards, ascending to 6000 
ft. in Sikkim. Assam and Kuasa Mrs. ascending to 4000 ft. CHITTAGONG and 
"TENASSERIM. 
An erect bush or small tree. Leaves often a foot long, narrowed into a petiole 
sometimes 1} in., glabrous or puberulous on the nerves beneath; stipules acute or ob- 
tuse, entire or 2-fid. Flowers very numerous, white, fragrant. Corolla-tube 2 in., 
glabrous; lobes globose in bud. Fruit 1 in. diam. or less; drupes turbinate, black.— 
Foliage often like that of M. citrifolia. 
4. M. persiceefolia, Ham. in Trans. Linn, Soc, xiii. 5355 glabrous or 
scaberulous, leaves obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate or linear caudate-acumi- 
nate narrowed into the petiole, peduncles short solitary leaf-opposed, drupes 
coalescent. DC. Prodr. iv. 447 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 61. M. lanceolata, Wall, 
Cat. 8435. 
Currracona and Prov, Hamilton, M‘Clelland, Birma, Wallich. TENASSERIM, in 
savannah forests, Kurz. SINGAPORE, Maingay.—Disrrip. Sumatra, Siam. 
A smalllow diffuse shrub; branches flexuous. Leaves 2-6 in. very variable in 
breadth, tapering into the slender petiole or rarely rounded at the base ; stipules subu- 
late. Flowers rather small, white. Corolla funnel-shaped, quite glabrous. Fruit the 
size of a cherry, smooth.—Leaves in Rangoon specimens very narrow 5 by 3 in, 
** Corolla 4- rarely 5-merous ; tube short, not } in. 
5. IZ. umbellata, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 449; leaves membranous from 
broadly obovate to elliptic- or linear-lanceolate obtuse acute or caudate-acumi- 
nate glabrous pubescent or tomentose beneath, nerves very distinct, heads in 
terminal sessile umbels, drupes connate. W. § A. Prodr. 420; Wall. Cat. 
8431; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 62. M. scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 548; DC. Prodr. 
iv.449. M. tetrandra, Jack in Mal. Misc. i. 13; Wall. Cat. 8432; Roxb. Fi. 
Ind., ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 203; DC. l. c. M. Padavara, Juss. Morinda, Wall. 
Cat. 8429.—Rheede Hort. Mal. vii. t. 27. 
Hills of Eastern Bexcar and the Maray Penrnsvra, from the Khasia Mts., 
ascending to 4000 ft. to Penang and Singapore. WESTERN PENINSULA ; South Concan, 
Nilgherry, and Travancore mts. CEYLON, ascending to 4000 ft.—Disrnis. Malay 
Archipelago, China, Japan, N. Australia. 
A diffuse shrub, with sometimes tomentose climbing branches. Leaves extremely 
variable, rarely 5 in., sometimes obcuneate with a retuse apex, usually elliptie-laneeo- 
late and quite glabrous, or scaberulous, or sometimes even softly tomentose beneath 
in both eastern and western specimens, narrowed into the slender petiole; stipules 
acute, connate. Peduncles 5-10, 1-13 in. glabrous or tomentose. Corolla almost 
rotate, throat bearded. Fruit size of a large pea or larger, irregularly lobed.—Some 
Nilgherry Mt. specimens have the leaves not shining. A Singapore specimen from 
Dr. Anderson has loaves more coriaceous, softly villous beneath, with the nerves ob- 
seure on the upper surface, thus approaching M. rigida, but the nerves are distinct 
beneath, and the heads are those of M. umbellata, 
6. M. rigida, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 246; leaves very coriaceous elliptic 
abruptly obtusely acuminate glossy above brown and sometimes puberulous be- 
neath, nerves obscure on both surfaces, heads axillary solitary or 2-4-nate and 
terminal subsessile, drupes connate. 
Maracca, Griffith, Maingay.—D1sreim. Sumatra, Borneo, 
Branches cylindric, polished, glabrous, Leaves very uniform, 3-4 by 11-2in., dark 
