192 LXXV. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Lasianthus. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
L. OBLIQUUS, Thw. Enum. 146 (Mephitidia oligantha, var. B. obli 
slender with scattered strigose hairs, leaves subsessile ovate or oblpg-lanceolate 
from a rounded or cordate oblique base caudate-acuminate membrgfious shining 
above, nerves 5-6 pair very slender hardly distinguishable from the laxly reticulating 
veins.—Ceylon; Saffragam district, up to 3000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites,—The broad 
leaves with rounded or cordate bases, and wide-spreading nerves of this plant, are 
so different from any of the many forms of the preceding described species, that I 
adopt Twaites’ opinion of its being distinct. 
_Mepuitipy, sp, Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 476, is probably a Psychotria. 
); branches 
80. SAPROSMA, Blume. 
Shrubs, foetid when bruised, with often subulate bristles at the tips of the 
branches and bases of the peduncles. Leaves opposite or 3-4 whorled, mem- 
branous ; stipules interpetiolar, usually connate, 1-3-pointed, deciduous. 
Flowers small, white, axillary or terminal, solitary or fascicled, sessile or eymose 
and peduncled; bracts and bracteoles minute, often connate. ^ Calyr-tube 
obeonic; limb dilated, 4-6-lobed or -toothed, persistent. Corolla bell- or 
funnel-shaped, throat villous; lobes 4-5, broad, obtuse, valvate with inflexed 
flat or crisped margins. Stamens 4-5 in the corolla-throat, filaments short or 0; 
anthers linear or oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, arms 2 short; ovules 
1 basal erect in each cell. Drupe small; pyrenes 1-2 crustaceous, Seeds ellip- 
soid and solitary or 2 and plano-convex, ventral face not grooved, testa mem- 
branous ; cotyledons small foliaceous, radicle slender inferior.—Drsrrin. Species 
8, tropical Asiatic and M-layan. 
Sect. I. Busaprc sma. Flowers in small cymes. Anthers subsessile, 
Seeds ellipsoid, usually solitary.—Leaves opposite. 
1. S. indicum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 87; glabrous, leaves 
sessile oblong or elliptic-oblong acuminate base narrowed or rounded, flowers 
few terminal, calyx-teeth minute triangular. Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 112. 
Dysodidendron glomeratum, Gardn. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 9. S. 
glomeratum, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 16. 
WrsrERN PENINSULA; on the Ghats from Bombay southwards, ascending to 
4000 ft. 
Branches pale, ultimate compressed. Leaves 3-5 by ł-1ł in., thin. ; stipules 3 in., 
connate, often 3-cuspidate. Flowers shortly pedicelled, with a basal toothed caly- 
culus. Calyx unequally 4-5-toothed. Corolla 1 in. long, white. Style shortly 2-fid! 
Fruit 4-4 in., ellipsoid. Seed solitary, broadly ellipsoid or globose, | 
Var. Gardneri; leaves usually broadly ovate-cordate. Serissa Gardneri, Thw. ` 
Enum. 150.—Ceylon; forests about Galagama, Thwaites. | 
2. S. consimile, Kurz For. Fi. ii. 29; glabrous, leaves petioled ov 
sessile elliptie or lanceolate acuminate or caudate, base acute, flowers solitary 
or few terminal, calyx-teeth lanceolate. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8351. Coffea, 
Wall. Cat. 8450. Kubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8467. ; 
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Kuasta Mrs, De Silva; ManrABPAN and Trnassermm, in dry hill forests, alt, ` 
3.5000 ft., Falconer, Kurz. 
Branches pale, ultimate minutely strigose or glabrate, not compressed. Leaves | 
3-5 by i-14 in., membranous, pale greenish when dry; petiole 1—4 in.; stipules 
connate, mouth bristly. Flowers sessile and shortly pedicelled, pedicels with basal 
bristles. Calya-tube funnel-shaped ; lobes lanceolate, spreading. Corolla } in. long. 
Style subentire. Fruit “ broadly obovoid, smooth, and seed usually solitary,” Kurz. 
—Some of the Tenasserim specimens have quite sessile leaves and look different, but, 
having no flowers, it is impossible to say whether they are so specifically, 
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