426 LXI. RUBIACES. [Lasianthus. 
ably, the arog usually drying black. Stipules interpetiolar, pointed, 
with a broad base. Flowers small, in dense clusters or heads, axillary or, in 
some species not Australian, terminal. 
The genus extends over tropical Asia, but is chiefly abundant in the Archipelago. The 
only Australian species appears to be the same as one extending from Ceylon over a part at 
least of the Archipelago. 
strigosus, Might in Ke Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 512. An erect 
shrub, the branches and under side of the leaves more or less hirsute with 
short rigid hairs. Leaves very shortly petiolate, mostly oblong in the Aus- 
tralian specimens, broader in some others, 3 to 5 in. long, with about 6 or 7 
ve ique veins "em underneath on each side of the midrib, and 
transverse veinlets. Flow essile and clustered, about 3 in each axil. 
Bracts small. Calyx Bon H ‘ites AN the limb obscurely toothed, longer 
than the adnate tube. Corolla rather e than 2 lines long; lobes 4 or bo 
scarcely so long as the tube. Stamens ar exserted. Onur usually 4-celled, 
with a very thick fleshy concave epigynous disk. Fruit pete about 
3 in. diameter.—Mephitidia strigosa, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. Pl. 
` Queensland. a pam Eus Dallachy. These gësch, 2 agree e in ngilese 
ones. Blume's charaeter € Bl. Bij E 999, ag well with our plant, 
but not the ^ 80 med b uel- L. chinensis, Bent h: "n x k. 160, may 
possibly prove to be the chek: as ioe ved ‘Thw aites, the whol requires much 
further acia pg the extent of uio to which ths ag pi 
satisfactorily ascertained. 
20. PSYCHOTRIA, Linn. 
(Grumilia, Ger£z.) 1 
Calyx-limb short, truncate, toothed or lobed. —Corolla-tube short ; lobes 5, 
or rarely 4, Sie? in t the. ud. An thers included in the tube or shorty Bir 
serted. Ov e: 
Shrubs or small trees. Stipules interpetiolar, 1 on each voe lion 
and often connate within the petioles, and very deciduous in the “Austra 
species, me pud and 1 or 2 on each side in many American oar 
Australian, 
nus, ranging over the tropical regions both of the eh and the Old Le 
KS — appear to be all endemic. The limits of the-g " merits ` br 
e above d t ili y PIA l 
c po er includes Grumilia, usually but y differing bid by the length of 
Section I. FRE — Calyz- bn) (a least in > Australian ege vier) 
sinuate-toothed. Pyrenes not furrowed. Seeds rum hila. 
Leaves obtuse. RACH divaricate. Corolla 2 to 3 lines Di priko ex 
Leaves acumi Cymes paniculate. Corolla 1 line lon (vri ade 
: inetly 
Section II. Mapourea.—Calyz-limh (at least in the Australian species) disli S 
liable can be 
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