Lasianthus.] LXXV. RUBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 188 
** Bracts much shorter than the flowers. 
16. E. tubiferus, Hook. f.; glabrous, or nerves beneath and bracts 
puberulous. leaves petioled elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate narrowed and acuminate 
at both ends, nerves 5-6 pair, veins sparingly branched, flowers sessile clustered 
longer than the orbicular coriaceous ebe, calyx-limb campanulate shortly 5- 
toothed tubular after flowering. Mephitidia, No. 9 Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
Kuasia and Jynrea Hits, alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith, Ee, (Kew Distrib. 2923, 
4, 5). 
Branches dark brown or black when dry. Leaves 5-7 by 11-21 in., rather rigid, 
brown when dry, opaque above; petiole 4-4 in.; stipules small, -4 in., triangular. 
Bracts coriaceous, glabrous and ciliate or pubescent. Calyx the largest of the Indian 
species, } in., black, glabrous or pubescent ` limb cylindric after flowering, and as long 
and nearly as broad as the ovary, coriaceous, with 5 erect triangular or lanceolate 
hispid teeth. — Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, pubescent, throat villous. Drupe } 
in., ovoid, black, crowned by the broad calyx-limb ; pyrenes 5. 
17. L. oblongifolius, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 11; branches glabrous, 
petioles and nerves beneath and stipules strigose, leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong 
abruptly caudate-acuminate, base rounded or subacute, nerves 7 pair, veins 
close-set prominent sparingly branched, petiole and subulate bracts and flowers 
sessile fascicled hispid, calyx-teeth 5 triangular-lanceolate. 
TINNEVELLY ; in the Pampanussam hills, alt. 2500 ft., Beddome. 
Shrubby. Leaves 6-7 by 2 in. midrib and prominent nerves slightly strigose, 
veins parallel and venules also very prominent; petiole } in.; stipules triangular. 
Flowers 2-5 in a cluster. Corolla-tube very short, lobes 4. 
18. L. obscurus, Blume in DC. Prodr. iv. 453 (Mephitidia); branches 
petioles stipules and nerves beneath softly tomentose, leaves petioled elliptic- 
lanceolate finely acuminate, base acute, nerves 7-8 pair, veins faint rarely forked, 
flowers fascicled sessile, bracts strigose outer ovate or oblong inner filiform or 
subulate, calyx-teeth lanceolate.— Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 317. 
MARTABAN, at Moulmein, Parish; Borg ANDAMAN Istanps, Kurz.—DisTRIE. 
Sumatra, Java. 
Branches almost black when dry, hairs spreading, soft. Leaves 4-7 by 1-2 in., 
greenish brown when dry, smooth and opaque above, with the midrib often pubescent, 
beneath pubescent on and between the nerves; petiole 1-3 in.; stipules 2 in., oblong- 
triangular, substrigose. Flowers not numerous; bracts scattered, j—1 in. ; calyx-limb 
cleft to the base. Drupe glabrous, ‘‘ snow-white,” Parish; pyrenes 5.— The Moulmein 
specimen precisely accords with the Sumatran and Javanese. 
19. L. Kurzii, Hook. f.; branches petioles and nerves beneath hoary 
with minute appressed pubescence, leaves shortly petioled elliptic-oblong or 
lanceolate finely acuminate, base acute, nerves 9-10 pair, veins faint straight not 
reticulate, bracts outer ovate inner lanceolate equalling the fascicled sessile stri- 
gose flowers, calyx-teeth 5-7 lanceolate. L. stercorarius, Kurz For. Fil. ii. 31, 
not of Blume. Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8310, 8311. 
Marraan, at Chappedong, Wallich; TExAssERIM and ANDAMAN IsrANDS, frequent, 
Kurz; Penane ? Wallich. 
Branches pale reddish-brown, smooth. Leaves 5-8 by 13-2 in., firmly membranous, 
pale brown when dry, smooth and opaque above, finely softly pubescent on the nerves 
beneath, veins close-set; petiole }-4 in.; stipules 4-3 in., oblong-lanceolate, pubes- 
cent. Bracts glabrous or ciliate, small, outer more or less confluent, membranous, 
shorter than the flowers, inner ovate. Calyx strigose; limb dilated, deeply cleft. 
Corolla infundibular, 2 in., slender. Drupe very small, glabrous; pyrenes 5-7.— 
Wallich’s 8310 and 8311 appear conspecific, and as his habitat of Penang is given 
with a doubt, they probably both come from Martaban; No. 8310 has a 6-7-cleft 
