160 LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Calospermum. 
Maracca, Griffith (Kew Distrib, 3087), Maingay (933).—Disrere. Malay Archi- 
elago. 
$ A climber; branches cylindric, smooth. Leaves 4-5 by 11-21 in., opaque or 
shining above, base acute or rounded, not narrowed into the petiole; nerves faint, 
spreading and arched; petiole 3-1 in.; stipules triangular, Cymes 2-5 in., umbel- 
lately branched, puberulous ; pedicels umbellate, } in.; bracteoles minute. Corolla 
white, tube } in., hairy within; segments narrow, yellow, pubescent on the inner 
face.—I have seen only flowers and fruit of an authentic specimen of C. scandens, and 
have no reason to doubt its identity with this, it being a widely diffused Malayan 
plant likely to occur at Malacca. The structure of the ovary is difficult to observo 
in dried specimens. I find 4 1-ovuled cells in one specimen, 2 l-ovuled cells in 
most, 2 2-ovuled cells in an authentic specimen, and Maingay says ovary by abortion 
2-3-celled. In the Australian C. paniculutuin and reticulatum I find the ovary 
4-cellel above, 2-celled below, with 2 ovules in each cell, 
74. GYNOCHTHODES, Di 
Twining glabrous shrubs; branches terete. Leaves opposite, coriaceous ; 
stipules broad, acute. Flowers small, unisexual, in axillary cymose fascicles or 
eduncled heads; pedicels short; bracts deciduous, Calyv-tube small, tur- 
iode: limb annular truncate or 5-toothed, persistent. Corolla coriaceous, 
tube short, throat woolly; lobes 4-5, oblong-lanceolate, valvate in bud with 
inflexed tips. Stamens 4—5, in the corolla-tube, filaments stout; anthers linear- 
oblong, exserted. Ovary 4-celled; style of A entire, of 9 stout, branches 
oblong; ovules 1 in each cell, attached. to the inner angle by a broad base. 
Drupe globose, with 2-4 pyrenes. Seeds compressed, ascending, testa mem- 
branous; embryo basal, small, radicle inferior.—Disrris. Species 3 or 4, all 
Malayan. 
1. G. sublanceolata, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 548; branches slender 
twining, leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, nerves very indistinct, fruit the 
size of a pea. G. coriacea var, Mig. in Ann.. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 244, 
Pæderia tetrandra, Wall. Cat. 6249. ? Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8385. ? Ru- 
biaceæ, Wall. Cat. 8297. 
Matacca, SIxGAroRe, and Penane, Wallich, Maingay. (G. coriacea, Kew Distrib.) 
—Distris. Bangka. 
Branches with long almost filiform tips, their nodes sometimes leafless, but with 
triangular stipules. Leaves black when dry, 3-4 by 1-1 in., not shining, base nar- 
rowed into the petiole; nerves without axillary glands; petiole 1-À in. Flowers 
fascicled or in much reduced cymes. Corolla-tube very short, woolly within. Style 
glabrous. Fruit with 3-4 pyrenes.—Wallich's 8385 is possibly a young state of this, 
the branches root like ivy, and the distiehous leaves are sessile, linear-oblong, acute, 
with eordate bases; it has neither flower nor fruit. Miquel has (in the Annales) 
reduced this to a variety of G, coriacea, which appears to me to be an entirely different 
plant. 
2. G. macrophylla, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 514; For. Fi ii. 
33; leaves elliptic-oblong subacute or obtuse, fruit the size of a cherry. 
Sourn ANDAMAN Isranp and Maracca, Kurz, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 934). 
Branches stout. Leaves brown when dry, 4-6 by 2 in., tip rounded, base sub- 
acute, very coriaceous, opaque, with nerves slender in Kurz's specimen, shining above, 
with very distinct nerves in Maingay's. Flowers very numerous, larger than is G. 
sublanceolata; calyx-tube more distinct; corolla-lobes longer. Fruit sea-green.—I 
have seen no Andaman specimen, and only one of Kurz's, sent by Dr. King, and 
marked as from Nankoury, Malaeea; it has leaves of the colour and texture of G. 
sublanceolata, and wants the hollow fringed glands in the nerve axils deseribed by 
Kurz; these are present in none of the axils of Maingay's specimen, the leaves of 
whieh are brown and shining above, 
