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COFFEIE.K. 

 Ovary 2-9- {renj rarely \-)cclhd, l/ic solitary ovules erect or attached to the middle 

 of each cell. Berry consisting of 2 or more {rarely a single) 1-seedcd coriaceous or churta- 

 ceotts pyrenes. 



■\ Ovules erect and haxal. Alhumon often feshy. Corolla rahate. 

 X Ovary 1-9- (rarely '2-)celled {Lasiatithiece). 

 Lasiaxthcs, Jack. 

 Calyx more or Ics^ tootlicd. Styles and ovary-cells 4-9. Flowers clustered or 

 cymosc, axillai y. Shrubs. 



* Flowers in clusters or short pedunclcd cymes, the hracts very minute and usually 

 deciduous. 



L. rxciDus, Bl. Upper Tenasserim. 



Flowers sessile. Caly.x; glabrous, the lobes about as long as the tube. Drupes 

 crowded by the liuear-laneeolato calyx-teeth. 



L. CONSTBICTUS, Wight. Tropical forests of Tenasserim and the Andainans. 



Flowers very shortly pedicellcd or almost sessile. Calyx puberulous, the limb 

 broad witli very short teeth. Drupes crowned with the cyathiform contracted almost 

 truncate ealyx-limb. 



Habit of L. stercorarius, but ditlers in the inflorescence and in the shape of the 

 calyx-limb (Kurz). 



**■ Flowers in densely Iracted sessile clusters, the hracts more or less conspicuous and 

 often persistent. 



X Calyx-segments abuul a line long or shorter. Stipules small. 



L. STERCORiBirs, Bl. Upper Tenasserim and the Andaman?. 



Leaves shortly petioled, puljerulous beneath. Outer bracts broad and blunt, but 

 short. Calyx-lobes lanceolate. 



L. (ilKrarTiDEA) Wallicuii, W. A. Upper Tenasserim and the Andamans. 



Sparingly stiJl-hairy. Leaves almost sessile, oblique. Bracts all linear-subulate, 

 hirsute. 



X X Caly.v-segments linear to linear-subulate, 3-5 lines long, hirsute. 

 + Stipules very large and leafy, oval. 

 L. sTii'ur.Auis, Bl. Tenasserim (or tlie Andamans). 



Leaves glabrous or nearly so. Stipules persistent, infolding the ilower-heads. 



-f -f Stipules more or less lanceolate, small, not leafy. 

 L. CYAXorARPA, Jack. Chittagong. Tropical forests of South Andaman. 



L. hracteatus, Wight. 

 Triosteum hirsutum, Ro.\l). 

 L. RvxhurgJtii, Wight. 



All parts brown-hirsute. Outer bracts very large, leafy, ovate, acuminate. 

 L. L-EVICAUUS, Kz. Tropical Forests of Kamorta. 



X X Ovary 2- {very rarely \-)celled {Psychotriect). 

 Civi'UAiais, Linnaus. 



Corolla funnel-slia]K-d, the tube long. Caly.r 4- or .5-toothed or lobed. Flowers 

 in heads or solitary, axillary. Herbs or under shrubs. 



C. (PsYcnoTRiA) iiKRiiACKA, L. Southom Pcgu liango, Tenasserim, 



Geophila reniformis, Don. and the Andamans. 



