Lasianthus.] LXXV. RUBIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 191 
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g very coriaceous, base rounded, nerves 7-9 spreading, veins cly reticulated, 
subulate, 
flowers sessile or pedicelled and subracemose on a short stout peduncle, bracts 
x-teeth subulate. Wight Ic. t. 1032 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. 
t. xvii. LR Santia venulosa, W. & A. Prodr. 492. Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 
8324, in part (locality of Silhet erroneous), 8459. 
NirauknnY Mrs., alt. 6-8000 ft., common. 
A very robust leafy much-branched shrub; branches black when dry. Leaves 
1-3} by 3-1 in., reddish-brown when dry, midrib and petiole (3-4 in.) very stout, 
nerves prominent on both surfaces; stipules small, 4 in., triangular or narrower. 
Peduncles longer than the petioles, pedicels hairy. Calyx hirsute, teeth 4-5, erect 
or recurved. Corolla 4 in., yellowish, glabrous without, throat and lobes within 
villous. Drupe à in. diam., blue, crowned by the calyx-teeth; pyrenes 3-65, thick- 
walled. 
50. L. capitulatus, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 511; branches 
strigose pubescent or glabrate, leaves petioled lanceolate acuminate base acute 
coriaceous, nerves 7-9 pair, veins sparingly branched and reticulate, flowers 
sessile on a short peduncle bracteate, calyx-teeth small. 
Nueuerry Mrs.; Sisparah, Wight; Conoor, alt. 7000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 
A much larger and longer-leaved plant, with a narrower leaf-base than L. venu- 
losus, not so stout, with less reticulated veins, the flowers capitate and corolla 
hirsute without; but my specimens are very incomplete. Leaves 4-6 by 1-1} in. in 
one of Wight’s specimens, 4-5 by 13-2] in. in another, which has the veins scarcely 
branched, Peđuncles shorter than the petioles; bracts subulate; flowers pubescent. 
Drupe globose, Z in. diam., crowned by the recurved calyx-teeth, smooth, glabrous; 
pyrenes 2-4, larger and much thinner-walled than in L. venulosus. 
51. L. dichotomus, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 508 ; glabrous, 
leaves petioled oblong or ovate- rarely obovate-oblong base rounded or cordate, 
nerves 6-8 pair, veins very close-set straight, flowers sessile and on the branches 
of a slender peduncle, bracts subulate, calyx-teeth long lanceolate. Bedd. Ic. 
. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 13. 
TRAVANCORE; Shevagherry and Courtallam hills, Wight, Beddome. 
Branches pale. Leaves 2-4 by 3-1} in. pale brown when dry, rather thin, 
nerves strong, veins faint; petiole d in., sometimes strigose on the upper face; 
stipules small, 4; in., lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Cymes including the very slender 
peduncle 1-13 in., irregularly sparingly dichotomously branched; bracts AA in. 
long. Calyx } in. long, teeth 3-4, spreading tips hairy. Corolla-tube exceeding the 
mnc at length glabrous, lobes hirsute within. Ovary 3-4-celled. Drupe not 
een. 
52, L. varians, Thw. Enum. 146 (Mephitidia), partly; quite glabrous, 
leaves small petioled shortly oblong apiculate base subacute or rounded, nerves 
6-8 pair hardly distinguishable from the loosely reticulated veins, flowers few 
. sessile or shortly pedicelled on the top of a rigid filiform peduncle, bracts subu- 
late, calyx-teeth subulate. 
Cryton; Central Province, Galagama, alt. 5-8000 ft., Thwaites. 
Branches slender, black when dry. Leaves 13-2 by $-1j in., coriaceous, black- 
| brown when dry, midrib excurrent as a firm point; petiole long and slender for 
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, the genus, 4 in.; stipules very small, A in., triangular. Pedwneles very slender, 
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strict, 1 in. less, surmounted with a pair of subulate bracts #4; in. long. Calyx 
glabrous, tube urceolate glabrous, longer than the subulate teeth. Corolla and Drupe 
| not seen. Ovary 3-celled.—Thwaites includes under this species some states of 
| strigosus, which differs in the inflorescence and calyx, as does its much nearer ally 
L. Walkerianus, which has a similar venation and excurrent midrib, and specimens 
of which are also included by Thwaites under L. varians. 
