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Loniccra ligustrina Wall., Cat. 479 ! ; KB. I. iii 12, VI 9 ; 

 False Privet. When not in flower very like Privet, but 

 the young leaves purplish and fringed with white hairs. 



Erect untidy shrub with grey bark ; branches nume- 

 rous, ascending, tufted ; the youngest from a persistent 

 sheath of decussate budscales, pubescent and purplish. 

 Leaves opposite, stalk ^ inch, blade 1/4 by J^ inch or 

 thereabouts, ovate, entire ; in bud erect and flat ; when 

 young purplish with distinctly revolute and ciliate 

 margin; when older spreading and quite smooth. 

 Flowers on the young shoots in opposite pairs, pendent : 

 peduncle of a pair ^ inch, axillary bracteoles ^ inch 

 linear : common, spherical part of calyx-tube ^ inch ; 

 free part 1/40 inch with minute teeth : buds clavate. The 

 two corolla-tubes of a pair divergent, with a very distinct 

 bend 1/16 inch above the base, then erect and parallel, 

 bulged at the bottom into a small sac outwards in each 

 case ; lobes unequal, cream coloured. Styles of the pair 

 bent abruptly inwards so that the stigmas nearly touch, 

 very hairy below, t. 136. Wight Ic. t. 1025, 111. t. 121. 



B. 3. 



In thickets and round sholas. Nilgiris : near Ootacamund 

 and on the plateau generally. Pulneys : near Kodaikanal. 

 Fpon 669, 1889. Bourfte 423. 



Gen. Dist. Khasia, Nepal and Western Ghats. 



RUBIACE/E. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs with opposite leaves connected 

 across the branch on each side by one combined stipule 

 (except in the tribe Stellatce) and flowers solitary or in 

 some form of cymose inflorescence, having an inferior 

 ovary of two to five one-seeded or many-seeded cells ; 

 calyx-teeth four or five ; corolla monopetalous with as 

 many equal lobes ; stamens as many ; and fruit dry, then 

 a capsule or of cocci, or fleshy, then a drupe or a berry. 



