RUBIACEJE. 427 



Weukra, Schreler. 



Stigma simple. Slijle not thickened, filiform. Berries small, not pulpy. Erect 

 trees or shrubs, unarmed. 



* Cymes terminal or in the fvrks of the branchi»i/s. 

 W. GLOMKRiFLORA, Kz. Pegu llangc. Sources of the Toung-nyo stream. 



Glabrous. Inllorosccnco grey pubescent. Unarmed evergreen tree. 



*■ * Cymes or corymbs leaf -opposed. 



■W. opposiTi FOLIA, Ivoxb. Chittagong. Pegu. Tenasserim, the 



W. di-nsijlora, Wall. Andamans and Katchall. 



Gynopacliys axiUiJiorus, Micj. 

 All parts glabrous. Cymes pubcrulous. Unarmed evergreen tree. 



var. a genuina. Calyx 2 linos long or somewhat longer, the limb more bell- 

 shaped, almost glabrous, riowers in shorter cymes. Berries the size of a large pea. 

 ?var. ji Jhrihuiida. Calyx about li lines long or shorter, densely pubescent, 

 the limb shorter. Flowers in densely pubescent slender divaricate corymbs. Berries 

 half the size. 



Sub-genus Griffithia, W. A. 



Stigma 2-lobod. Shrubs, often scandent, armed with straight or recurved spines. 



•■" Spines recurved. Scandent shrubs. 

 X Inflorescence quite glabrous. 



"W. (Randia) i,o>'giflora, Lamk. Tropical forests of Chittagong, 



Griffithia fragrans, Mi(|. Tenasseiim, and the Andamans. 



Corolla-tube |— 1.} inch long. 



This, as other species of Griffithia, has the cymes not strictly asillaiy, but 

 arising from the end of, or laterally from, the transformed spine-like branchlets 

 (Kurz). 



■\V. (GujFFiTniA) SiAMEXsis, iliq. Upper Tcnasscrim. 



Corolla-tube hardly longer than tlie calyx (2 lines long"). 



X X Inflorescence and calyx oppressed-pubescent. 



"W. (Styi.ocorvne) iusitn'osa, Griff. Tropical forests of Pegu Range, 



Eastern slopes, and Tenasserim. 

 Corolla-tube about 3 lines long. 



W. (Raxiha) fasciculata, DC. Jlaulmain (fule Parish). 



P. rigida, Wall. 



** Spines straight. Erect or straggling shrubs. 



W. FASCICULATA. 



Flowers sessile or almost sessile between 2 conuate bractlets. 



"W. (Gaedexia) mvktifolia, Wall. Swampy forests of Pegu and Tenasserim. 



Flowers solitary, on a slender bractless pedicel. 



Kurz adds : 



"W. (Gmffituia) ccuvata, Kz. Kamorta and Katchall. 



Diplospora, De Candollc. 



Style 2-cleft. Berries rather large, not pulpy. Seeds in 2 rows in each cell. 

 Erect trees or shrubs, unarmed. 



D. srs-GULARts, Korth. Tropical forests of the Pegu Range, Eastern 



Discospermum spharocarpum, Dalz. slopes. Tenasserim and the Andamans. 



