158 LXXV. RUBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Morinda. 
blackish-brown and highly polished above, rusty-brown and very opaque beneath, nar- 
rowed into a slender petiole; stipules connate, ovate. Peduncles stout, glabrous or 
pubescent. Corolla-tube X in., puberulous. Heads 1 in. diam. and under, with few 
very large pyrenes, i 
7. M. villosa, Zook. f.; branches and leaves beneath hirsute, leaves 
elliptic-obovate or -lanceolate acuminate opaque and pubescent above, nerves 
distinct, peduncles terminal umbellate long or s ort; drupes confluent, Morinda ? 
Wall. Cat. 8425, 
Kuasta Mrs., De Silva; at the Bor Panee river, J. D. H. § T. T. 
A climbing shrub. Leaves greenish when dry, 3-4 by 14-1} in, membranous; 
nerves numerous; petiolo very short ; stipules connate with subulate points. Peduncles 
1-2 in. stout or slender, villous. Heads in flower small. Corolla small, pubescent, 
Fruit 1 in., pale red. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
M. Watucuu, Kurz, For. Fl. 61; a small quite glabrous evergreen tree ?, leaves 
3-6 in. oblong-lanceolate to linear aeuminate at both ends pale beneath, petiole 1-12 
in. flowers rather small white in small heads forming a terminal glabrous stiff- 
peduneled small eyme, calyx truncate, the tube (in bud) only } in. long, lobes as long 
oblong-linear rather blunt.—Tenasserim, Kurz, —Probably in the above description, 
copied from Kurz, the tube alluded to and lobes are those of the corolla, which word 
has been omitted accidentally. 
70, RENNELLIA, Korthals. 
Characters of Morinda, but the terminal heads few-flowered and paniculate, 
ovules peltate, and seeds orbicular thin and much dorsally compressed.— Drs- 
TRIB. Species 2 or 3, Malayan. 
l. R. speciosa, Hook. f. in Gen. Plant. ii. 118; quite glabrous, leaves 
elliptie-laneeolate acuminate. “Morinda speciosa, Wall. Cat. 8436; Kurz For. 
Fi. ii. 62, 
TrNAssERIM ; Cheppedong hills, Wallich. Maxacca, Griffith, Maingay. 
A stout evergreen climbing shrub. Leaves 6-9 by 2-24 in., brown or pale greon 
when dry, thinly coriaceous, tapering into a petiole a-l in. ; stipules free or connate, 
short. Jnflorescence 1-3 in., erect, quite glabrous ; peduncle rachis and short branches 
very stout; heads pedicelled, 3-6-flowered. Calyx-limb short, cupular, truncate. 
Corolla-tube 4-3 in.; limb glabrous within, lobes linear-oblong. Fruit } in. diam., 
globose, 
71. DAMNACANTHUS, Gaertn. 
A small rigid much-branched shrub covered with slender spines. Leaves 
small, subsessile, ovate, acuminate ; stipules minute, 2-cuspidate. Flowers 
small, white, axillary, solitary or in pairs, pedicels short, bracteolate. Calyx- 
tube obovoid; limb 4-5-fid, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, throat villous ; 
lobes 4-5, triangular-ovate, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-5, on the throat of the 
corolla; filaments short, anthers with a broad connective, exserted. Ovary 2—4- 
celled ; style filiform, stigma 9-4-cleft; ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous by a 
broad base from above the middle of the septum. Drupe small, globose, with 
1-4 hard plano-convex pyrenes. Seeds peltate, testa thin, albumen horny ; 
embryo minute, radicle inferior. —DrsTRr5. Species 1 or 2, East Bengal, China, 
and Japan. 
1. D. indicus, Gaertn. f. Fruct. iii, 18, t. 182; DC. Prodr, iv. 473. 
Aen Hrrrs (Upper Assam), Griffith.—Disrrin, Japan. 
Branches slender; spines straight, needle-like. Leaves A in. long in Griffith's 
specimens, often longer in Japanese; nerves obscure. Corolla-tube 4 in., segments 
