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Lasianthus.] LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 187 
in. triangular strigose. Flowers rather numerous; bracts 0 or minute, subulate.. 
Calyx black, tube obconie; teeth coriaceous, hispid at the tips. Corolla “ somewhat 
hairy without, villous within, tube short," Zhwattes.—I have seen but one specimen 
from Adam’s Peak (C. P. 348), which differs from Thwaites’ description in the glabrous 
branches, and in the veins being only obscurely parallel (for the genus); it a good 
deal resembles a form of L. strigosus. 
HA 33. L. inconspicuus, Hook. f.; glabrous, leaves petioled elliptic caudate- 
acuminate opaque above, base acute, nerves 5-6 pair spreading and veins incon- 
spicuous, flowers clustered sessile small ebracteate, calyx-teeth 5 triangular acute. 
Hyptianthera stricta, Wall, Cat. 8313 L. 
St nr, Wallich. 
Branches very slender, strict, quite glabrous except the youngest tips. Leaves 34-5 
by 11-to 13 in., rigid, dull greenish when dry, tip very long and slender; nerves very 
obseure above, veins beneath visible rather distant branched; petiole slender, } in., 
puberulous ; stipules small, triangular, tips pubescent. Flower in very small pubes- 
cent axillary clusters, Calyxglabrous ; limb dilated, cup-shaped ; teeth erect. Corolla- 
tube slender, pubescent (seen in bud only about 3 in. long). Drupe à in. diam., globose, 
smooth, crowned by the calyx-teeth ; pyrenes 4-6. 
34, L. lancifolius, Hook. f.; branches above petioles and midrib beneath 
hoary-puberulous, leaves petioled long narrowly oblong-lanceolate caudate- 
acuminate membranous, nerves 9 pair very slender, veins horizontal sparingly 
forked, flowers sessile ebracteate, calyx-teeth subulate short.  Mephitidia, 12° 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
Kuasta Mrs., alt. 3-4000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2916), J. D. H. 4 T. Säi 
Branches pale. Leaves 7-9 by 1-1} in., greenish when dry, somewhat shining on 
both surfaces; petiole }—} in.; stipules 4-4 in., narrowly triangular, villous. Flowers 
crowded. Calyx puberulous. Corolla-tube 4 in., puberulous, slender; lobes hairy 
within. JDrupes X in. diam., globose, blue; pyrenes 5. 
35. L. chinensis, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 160; branches short petioles nerves: 
beneath and flowers finely appressed pubescent, leaves large stoutly petioled 
elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate coriaceous, base acute, nerves 10-12 pair,. 
veins much reticulated, flowers sessile clustered ebracteate, calyx-teeth small 
narrow ovate-lanceolate. Mephitidia chinensis, Champ. in Kew Journ. Bot. 
iv. 196. 
Maracca; Pulo Bissar forest, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2920), Maingay (865).— 
Distr. Hongkong, Formosa. 
Branches as thick as a goose-quill, black when dry. Leaves 6-8 by 12-21 in., 
brown when dry, rather shining and quite glabrous above; nerves not strong above, 
prominent beneath; petiole j-j in.; stipules small, 3 in. narrowly triangular. 
Calyz-limb campanulate, tomentose. Drupe subglobose, obtusely angled, A in. diam., 
pubescent, crowned by the calyx-teeth ; pyrenes 4-5. 
36. L. longifolius, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 514; branches 
stout glabrous, leaves very large shortly stoutly petioled elliptic-oblong or oblong-- 
lanceolate acuminate shining above scabrid xni base acute, nerves 15-18 
pair, veins much reticulated, stipules very coriaceous, flowers sessile crowded 
ebracteate or bracts minute, calyx-teeth short triangular. 
Maracca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2936), Maingay (867). 
Branches as thick as a goose-quill, black when dry. Leaves 12-16 by 33-44 in.,. 
thinly coriaceous, brown when dry, nerves moderately arching, scabridity of under- 
surface from rigid minute hairs on the nerves to microscopic points on the leaf-surface ; 
petiole 4 in., black, glabrous; stipules 4-5 in. long, oblong-ovate, obtuse, very coria- 
ceous, glabrous. Flowers sessile and subsessile; bracts minute, subulate, strigose. 
Calyx hemispheric, black, glabrous; limb shortly tubular, truncate or obscurely irre-- 
