198 LXXV. RUBIACE&. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Hamiltonia. 
An undershrub 4-12 ft. high, with spreading branches. Leaves rather rigid, 6-12 
by 2-4 in., elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, acute, glabrous or pubescent, base acute; 
petiole 3-1 in. Flowers in subglobose heads, most copiously produced in terminal 
trichotomous pubescent panicles, fragrant, white or blue, sessile or pedicelled; bracts 
subulate. — Calyz-teefh very variable in shape, longer than the ovary, glabrous 
pubescent or hairy, with often interposed gland-tipped processes. Corolla-tube ġ in., 
pubescent or woolly. Stamens and style more or less exserted according to sex. 
Capsule $-¢ in., ellipsoid.— Bhotan specimens have very short broad calyx-teeth. 
85. LEPTODER MIS, Wail. 
Shrubs, foetid when bruised; branches terete. Leaves opposite, the pairs 
often fascicled ; stipules small, acute or pungent, persistent. Flowers bracteate 
and bracteolate, 3-nate or in terminal fascicles, white or purplish, subsessile ; 
bracteoles connate into a 2-cuspidate scarious tube. Calyx-tube obconic, lobes 
5 (4-6), coriaceous, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube slender, hairy 
within; throat glabrous; lobes 5 (4-6), valvate with inflexed edges, Stamens 
5 (4-6), inserted in the corolla-throat, filaments short; anthers linear-oblong, 
d exserted, 9 included effete. Ovary 5-celled ; style filiform, arms 5 linear 
Q exserted; ovules 1, basal, erect in each cell. Capsule cylindric or ovoid, 
5-valved to the base, apex deciduous between the hardened persistent calyx- 
teeth, valves separating from 3-5 erect free fibrous pyrenes, the fibres simple 
or reticulating, loose or appressed. Seeds erect, testa membranous ; cotyledons 
orbieular, radicle short slender inferior.—DrsrRrB. Species 5 or 6, a Chinese, 
and the following. 
l. L. lanceolata, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 191; 
Cat. 6241; leaves ovate elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate puberulous or hispid above, 
stipules small acute appressed, capsule cylindric. DC. Prodr. iv. 462; Dene. 
in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 90; Brand. For. Fl. 279, Hamiltonia suaveolens, Don 
Prodr. 137. 
TEMPERATE Himaraya, alt. 4—10,500 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan, Wallich, &c. 
A rigid erect shrub; branches glabrous, scabrid or hispid. Leaves very variable, 
A A by 4-1} in., more or less hairy beneath, rigid or rather membranous; petiole 
UH in. Flowers subeapitate, terminal, and on short lateral branches, white, 4-6- 
merous. Bracts tubular, glabrous or puberulous. Calyx-teeth triangular, acute. 
Corolla $ in. long. glabrous or hairy. Capsule 1-1 in., eylindric, truncate, crowned 
by the persistent ciliate calyx-teeth; fibrous utriele enclosing the seed long and very 
lax. i 
2. L. virgata, Edgew. in Aitchison Cat. Punjab. Pl. 70; leaves very 
small linear or oblong acute scabrid above, stipules with long pungent recurved 
points, capsule cylindric. 
Western HiwALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft. from Murree, Falconer to Kulu, Edgeworth. 
Sart Ranor, Fleming. 
A slender rigid excessively branched shrub; branches very slender, erect or 
divaricate, white with spreading pubescence. Leaves 1-4 by A. A in., fascicled, 
straight. or somewhat faleate, margins flat or recurved, pale beneath, nerves obseure ; 
stipules triangular with rigid long pungent points and thickened margins, white. 
Bracts often equalling the capsule.’ Calyx glabrous, teeth lanceolate ciliate, much 
longer than in LL. lanceolata. Corolla } in. long, pubescent, purplish. Capsule } in., 
subeylindrie. Seed with a few free fibres attached to the integument, 
5. L. Griffithii, Hook. f.; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute narrowed into 
the petiole smooth or seabrid above, stipules small nat capsule ovoid 
twice as long as the bracteoles and as the lanceolate glabrous calyx-teeth, 
