372 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. J(JJi. 



Shrubs with Opposite Stipulate Simple Leaves 



Ixora eoocinea, 

 The Flame Tree. 



Rungan. 

 Rtjbiace^. 

 F. B. I, iii. 145, 

 The Plains. 



Samiltonxa suavolens 



Padena, kanera. 

 RUBIACEiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 197. 



Salt range, Himalaya, 

 2-6,000 ft. Valleys below 

 Simla (Collett). 



Dharmpur (Bomford) . 



LePtodermis lance- 

 olata, 



RT7BIA0E.a:. 

 F. B. I. iii. 198. 

 Himalaya, 4-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Dharmpur (Bomford). 



Lepto^ermls Tir^ata, 



RUBlACE.*!. 



F. B t. iii. 19S. 

 Himalaya, 4-7,000 ft. 



Petals United. 



medium size, branches stiff, rather stout ; leaves 

 2-4 by 1-2 ins., sessile, leathery, shortly oblong ; 

 stipules with stiff long points ; flowers scarlet, in 

 dense short .stalked bunches, calyx tube 4-toothed, 

 persistent, corolla tube, l-lj ins., lobes broad, 

 pointed, four, stamens 4, short, styles 2 branched ; 

 fruit sometimes fleshy | in. diam., crowned by the 

 calyx ; seeds concave. The root is used in native 

 medicine as a cure for dysentery, 



small, branches in threes, fetid when bruised ; leaves 

 .3-9: ins., long by 2-3| ins., rather rigid, stalked, 

 leathery, smooth, often rough ; stipules joined by their 

 margins, short, short pointed, persistent ; flowers 

 sessUe or shortly stalked, sweet scented, till crushed, 

 crowded in large three branching racemes, blue or 

 white, calyx lobes 5, persistent, corolla tube ^ in. long, 

 woolly, lobes short, pointed, spreading, stamens 5 ; 

 capsules oblong with round ends, ^^ in, long, 

 1-celled. 5-seeded ; seeds sharply three cornered. 



small, bark thin, grey ; leaves and young shoots 

 fetid when crushed ; leaves l-?> in., shortly stalked, 

 narrowed at both ends, finely pointed, both surfaces 

 covered with minute white hairs ; stipules short, 

 broad, pointed, persistent ; flowers | in. long, white 

 or purplish, in small bracteate heads at the end of 

 short branches forming a large branching raceme, 

 each flower half enclosed in a tube of two pointed 

 partially united, thin bracts, calyx 5-lobed, small, 

 fringed, persistent, corolla funnel-shaped, lobes 5, 

 short, spreading, stamens 5, short, style long, 5- 

 branched : capsule cylindric. i in. splitting into 5 

 valves ; seeds 5 each in a loose covering. 



slender, rigid, very bushy, white velvety ; leaves 

 i'i ^y r^'i ^^' Jio^'^'r, acute, margins flat or recurved, 

 white beneath, stipules triangular with stiff long 

 sharp recurved points, white ; calyx smooth, hairy, 

 corolla ^ in. long, velvety, purplish, stamens 5, style 

 as above : capsule ^ in. ; seeds with a few free fibres 

 attached to the covering. 



