Damnacauthus. | LXXV. RUBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 159 
half as long. Fruit } in. diam.—Griffith’s is the only Indian specimen I have seen, 
and no further habitat is given than Mishmi. Considering the confusion in which 
Griffith's collections were when received at Kew, the locality may be doubtful, and 
the specimen a Garden one: it is an extensively cultivated plant, but being Chinese, 
may be indigenous in Mishmi. 
72. PRISMATOMERIS, Thwaites. 
Shrubs with compressed 4-gonous branches. Leaves opposite; stipules 1-2- 
cuspidate. Flowers unisexual, in axillary and terminal fascicles, white. Calyx- 
tube of gf small, turbinate; of 9 larger, cupular, persistent. Corolla-tube 
cylindric, throat glabrous; lobes 4-5 spreading, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-5, 
in the corolla-tube; filaments short; anthers linear, included. Ovary 2-celled ;. 
style filiform, branches 2 free or united; ovules 1 attached above the middle 
of the septum in each cell Berry small, 1-2-celled, 1-2-seeded. Seeds sub- 
globose, peltate, ventrally excavated, testa membranous; embryo small, coty- 
ledon reniform, radicle inferior.— DrsrRis. 2-3 species, tropical Indian and 
Malayan. 
1. P. albidiflora, Thw. i» Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 268, t. vii. ; Enum. 
154, 421; leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate shining. Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 
t. 93; and Anal. Gen. t. 29, f. 4. Coffea tetrandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 538; 
Wall. Cat. 6242; DC. Prodr. iv. 499; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 28. Rubie, Wail. 
Cat. 8470. 
Kuasa Mrs. ascending to 4000 ft., and southwards to Maracca. CEYLON, 
ascending to 4000 ft.—Distrip. Malay Archipelago. 
An evergreen tree or shrub; branches slender, 4-gonous ; bark yellow, polished. 
Leaves pale when dry, 3-5 by 1-14 in., coriaceous; nerves slender; petiole 4-1 in, ; 
stipules triangular, acuminate. Flowers subumbellately fascicled, rarely in peduncled 
axillary umbels, pedicels filiform, 1-1 in., ebracteolate. Calyæ-limb truncate. Corolla 
white, tube 2-1 in. ; lobes linear-obiong. Fruit globose, } in. diam. 
2. P. Fergusonii, Tor, mss.; Bedd. Fl. Sylv., For. Man. 134/10; very 
similar to P. albidiflora, but leaves rather larger, pedicels shorter all terminal 
and more numerous and the corolla much less fleshy. 
CEYLON, near Colombo. 
The above is all the information I have as to this species, except an observation 
by Beddome, that “the imbrieation of the corolla-lobes is easily seen in this species.” 
In reference to this point, Beddome also says in the generic character, ** Corolla-lobes 
subimbrieate (or valvate?).” Finding the corolla to be strictly valvate in P. albidi- 
flora, as Thwaites first described it, I suspect P. Fergusonii may not be eongeneric. 
79. CCELOSPERIMUIM, Blume. 
Scandent glabrous trees or shrubs; branchlets compressed. Leaves opposite ;. 
stipules connate, rarely free. Flowers in terminal eymose thyrsoid or panicled 
cymes, white or yellowish, often scented. Calyx-tube short; limb short, per- 
sistent. Corolla coriaceous, funnel- or salver-shaped; lobes 4-5, narrow,. 
spreading or reflexed, valvate. Stamens 4-5, on the throat of the corolla, 
finca filiform ; anthers versatile, exserted, slender. Ovary 2 or 4-celled ;. 
style filiform, branches 2 short or long; ovules 1 in the 4-celled, geminate in 
the 2-celled ovaries, pendulous. Drupe globose, with 2-4 pyrenes. Seeds erect.. 
—DisrRir. Species 4-5, Malayan and Australian. 
1. C. scandens, Blume Bid. 994; leaves broadly elliptic acuminate: 
coriaceous, DC, Prodr. iv. 468. 
