Grumika] lxix. rubiace.-e. 497 



pallid-green on both faces, slightly paler beneath, 3 to 5 in. long 

 by 2 to 3 in. broad; lateral veins 10 to 12 on each side of the 

 midrib, inconspicuous; petioles |^ to 1 in. long; stipules ovate, acute, 

 bidentate, puberulous at the back, ^ in. long, deciduous ; flowers 

 pentamerous, white, i in. long when expanded, on sliort puberu- 

 lous pedicels, several together in little clusters arranged in umbel- 

 liform or pyramidal-corymbose compound pedunculate terminal 

 cymes 1 to 1^ in. in diameter ; bracts and bracteoles small or 

 obsolete ; common peduncle li to 2 in. long, rather slender, 

 puberulous; calyx campanulate-hemispherical, somewhat com- 

 pressed, yV ill- long, minutely puberulous outside ; the limb 

 shorter than the ovary, with 5 broadly ovate lobes, glabrous 

 inside or very nearly so ; corolla minutel}- pubescent outside ; the 

 tube |- in. long, straight, glabrous inside except 5 patches of 

 whitish hairs about the top making the throat densely hairy ; 

 lobes oval-oblong, equalling the tube, puberulous inside, reflexed 

 in open flower ; stamens 5, glabrous ; anthers ellipsoidal-oblong, 

 exserted ; filaments longer than the anthers, inserted about the 

 throat of the corolla ; disk fleshy, elevated, glabrous ; ovary 

 fleshy, 2-celled ; cells 1 -ovulate ; ovules oval, compressed, erect ; 

 style glabrous, straight, bilobed at the stigma, equalling the 

 corolla-tube. 



HuiLLA. — In the more open forests of Monino ; fl. Jan. 1860. 

 No. 3193. 



5. G. subsuccosa Hiern, sp. n. 



A small tree, often a robust shrub of 3 or 4 ft. in height but 

 then perhaps only young, glabrous nearly throughout ; branches 

 sub-terete ; branchlets somewhat compressed towards the extremi- 

 ties ; leaves opposite oval or somewhat obovate, cuspidate at the 

 apex, more or less wedge-shaped, sometimes very shortly so 

 towards the base, thinly and dryly coriaceous, glossy, rather rigid 

 in the living state, deep-green above, paler beneath, 4 to 7^ in. 

 long by 2 to 4 in. broad ; lateral veins 9 to 13 on each side of the 

 midrib, slender, spreading at a wide angle, pale beneath ; petioles 

 ]r to 2 in. long ; stipules broadly ovate, pointed or acute, bidendate 

 at the tip, ^ to |^ in. long, puberulous at the back, deciduous ; 

 flowers pentamerous, about ^ in. long, on very short puberulous 

 pedicels or subsessile sevei-al together, arranged in branched com- 

 pound sub-umbelliferous terminal pedunculate minutely puberulous 

 cymes 2 to 3 in. in diameter ; common peduncle about ^ in. long ; 

 bracteoles small, subulate from a broad base, puberulous at the 

 back, deciduous ; calyx broadly campanulate, about y ^ in. long, 

 green, puberulous outside ; the limb about as long as the ovary, 

 glabrous inside, 5-cleft ; the lobes broadly ovate, apiculate ; 

 corolla glabrous or nearly so, about ^t ^^- ^^^S when expanded, 

 campanulate, rather fleshy, whitish-yellow, 5-cleft half way down ; 

 the throat densely bearded ; the lobes oval, hooded-apiculate at 

 the apex, about as long as the tube, valvate in the bud, indupli- 

 cately so at the apex, reflexed at the time of the open flower ; 



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