186 LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lasianthus. 
28. L. parvifolius, Wight in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 512; quite 
glabrous, leaves small petioled elliptic acute shining above coriaceous, base acute, 
nerves 2-3 pair strong, veins very close much forked, flowers 2-3 sessile 4- 
merous, bracts minute or obsolete, calyx-teeth small obtuse, corolla glabrous 
externally, : 
Tnavawconn; Courtallam, Wight. 
Branches slender. Leaves 13-2 by 2.1 in., pale brown when dry; petiole 4-1 in. ; 
stipules A A in. triangular, acute. Flowers very small. Calyx glabrous; teeth 
minute, triangular. Corolla-tube i in, glabrous; throat and lobes within hairy. 
Drupe “ size of a pea,” Wight, globose, glabrous ; pyrenes 3-4, 
29. L. obovatus, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind, Or. t. 10; glabrous, leaves small 
petioled obovate obtuse coriaceous, nerves 4-5 pair and veins very indistinct, 
flowers 1-3 sessile ebracteate, calyx-teeth ovate or triangular. 
TRAVANCORE, on the Athramallay Mts., alt. 5000 ft., Beddome. 
Shrubby, much branched; branches very short with short internodes, black. 
Leaves hardly distichous, 1 by 2 in. almost black when dry, with recurved margins ; 
petiole 3-2 in.; stipules triangular, 4 in. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx campanulate, 
puberulous ; teeth ovate or triangular. Corolla-tube very short, glabrous, throat 
villous. Drupe not seen. ? 
30. L. Walkerianus, Wight in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 512; quite 
glabrous or young shoots puberulous, leaves petioled elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate 
or obovate apiculate acute or acuminate very coriaceous, nerves 7-8 pair very 
slender, veins copiously reticulate hardly parallel, flowers fascicled sessile, bracts 
0, calyx-teeth 4 small triangular obtuse. Mephitidia Walkeriana, Thw. Enum. 
146. M. varians, Thw. l c. in part (O. P. 290). 
Czvrox; Central Province, alt. 5-6000 ft., Macrae, Walker, &c. 
Thwaites distinguishes this doubtfully as a species from L. strigosus by the nar- 
rower more acuminated leaves almost or wholly glabrous beneath, and shorter flowers ; 
but these are not the characters of Wight’s authentic specimens, which have shorter 
more coriaceous leaves than L. strigosus, with very much reticulated venules ; in small 
specimens the leaves are only 2 in. long, obtuse and apiculate, with a longer petiole 
in proportion. It looks more like a mountain dwarf form of L. strigosus with rigid 
leaves and small flowers, but the calyx is quite different; it accords with Thwaites" 
sessile flowered form of Mephitidia varians. 
Van. lanceolatus; leaves narrowly lanceolate 3-5 by 3-1 in.—Ceylon, Macrae and 
Thwaites (C. P. 80, 340, 1728). 
31. L. oliganthus, 7/w. Enum. 146 (Mephitidia); branches slender 
tips and petioles appressed pubescent, leaves elliptic-lanceolate long-acuminate 
membranous shining, nerves 5 pair very slender hardly distinguishable from the 
laxly reticulating veins, flowers subsolitary ebracteate. 
Cryton ; Hantani district, Thwaites. 
Very closely allied to L. strigosus, and, as Thwaites remarks, probably a form 
growing in poor dry soil, but the nervation of the leaf is different. The only speci- 
mens seen have no flowers; Thwaites describes them as in few-flowered heads, small, 
with short acute calyx-teeth. 
32. L. Gardneri, Tw. Enum. 145 (Mephitidia); stem stout glabrous 
or nearly so, leaves large petioled oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base acute 
labrous or hairy on the 8 pair of nerves beneath, veins faint and reticulated, 
owers crowded sessile E bo calyx substrigose, teeth ovate-lanceolate 
acute. 
Cryton; Newera Ellia and Adam's Peak, Gardner. 
Branches black, as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 3-8 by 13-21 in., brown when 
dry, coriaceous, opaque ; petiole 4-4 in., glabrous or strigose; stipules very small, à 
