64 RUBIACE/E 



MUSSAENDA. f.b.i. 75 xxix. 



Shrubs of the usual rubiaceous type, and distin- 

 guished among all ours by the large white or yellow 

 leaf-like sepal, against each flower. Corolla valvate. 

 Ovary two-celled. Fruit a many-seeded berry. 



Species about 50, in tropical Africa, Asia and Polynesia. 



Mussacnda frondosa Linn. ; F.B.L iii 89, XXIX 9. var. 

 hirsutissma. Very hairy all over. Leaves ovate acute 

 shortly stalked, 2 to 4 in. Calyx lobe (sepal) as large, 

 white. Corolla tube 1 54 to ij^, limb stellate, orange- 

 brown, I inch across, with lighter very hairy mouth. 



Abundant on the lower slopes up to 6,000 feet. Fyson 305, 

 645, 1428. 



Gen. Dist. From Nepal to South India, and to Malaya. 



WEBERA. 

 Wcbera corymbosa Willd.\ Vol. I p. 19T. t. 361. 



KNOXIA. 



See Vol. I p. 192. 



Knoxia mollis W.&A.; Vol. I p. 193. t. 362. 



Knoxia wightiana Wall ; Vol. I p. 193- t. 363. 



CANTHIUM. F.B.I. LXlll 



Shrubs and trees, sometimes spiny, with entire 

 opposite leaves, short triangular combined stipules, and 

 small flowers in axillary fascicles or corymbose cymes. 

 Corolla white with a ring of re-flexed hairs inside ; lobes 

 valvate. Stamens on the mouth of the corolla. Fruit 

 globose ortwo-lobed, with one stone in each cell ; embryo 

 long, with short cotyledon and radicle pointing upwards. 



Species about 70, in the tropics of the old world. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 

 Flowers in dense peduncled umbels ; ruit 



J inch ; leaves thick C. umbellatum. 



Flowers few ; fruit f inch ; leaves thin . , C. neilgherrensis. 



