190 RUBIACE.E. 



Stem terete, almost glabrous, with internodes of 2 

 to 4 inches, green or reddish, but white and swollen 

 under the nodes, and never rooting there. Stipular 

 bristles long, J^ inch. Leaf-stalks J^ inch : blades 

 oblong ovate, up to 2 by % inch, covered with short hairs 

 on the upper side and on the nerves underneath : nerves 

 eight to nine pairs, the more basal ones closer together 

 than the distal, all curving forwards and reaching the 

 margin. Panicle with fewer flowers than in A. 

 leschenaultiana, not regularly trichotomous, bracts and 

 bracteoles with hairy teeth. Calyx-tube nearly glabrous, 

 J^ inch, the teeth more than twice as long, and half 

 as wide, ciliate. Corolla tube ^ to J^ inch, white or 

 pale pink : lobes four, % inch, white; ciliate. Stamens 

 four erect, on short filaments at the mouth of the corolla. 

 Stigma purple parted in the bud before the flower opens. 

 Seed one only in each cell. t. 140. 



In sholas among other shade-loving plants. Pulneys : above 

 Kodaikanal, flowering September, at night, fading by lo a.m. 



Quite distinct from A. leschenauUiatia, though the leaves have a super- 

 ficial resemblance. It seems nearest to the HedyoHs sHpiilata quoted 

 above, but in its fetid leaves is certainly an Anotis. 



Anotis monosperma Hooker, Wight's Herb. Prop. 1295 ! ; 

 F.B.I, iii 75, XXII 17. A very delicate, shade-loving 

 plant with slender stem and thin leaves and pale mauve 

 flowers nearly sessile on the long capillary branches of 

 a loose cymose inflorescence. 



Stem and leaves pubescent. Leaf-stalk % to l inch ; 

 blades ovate, I to 2 inches by 5^ to I inch, or occasion- 

 ally much less, acute or acuminate broadest near the base 

 and then narrowed suddenl}^ and cuspidately to the stalk. 

 Inflorescence axillary ; branches capillary and divergent. 

 Flowers nearly sessile in twos and threes, in irregular 

 corymbose cymes, white tinged with pink or mauve. 

 Fruit 1/12 inch, rather broader than long broadest at 

 the top and crowned by the small calyx-teeth. Capsule 



