RUBIACE^. 191 



slightly convex and compressed laterally with entire, 

 not bilobed, crown ; when nearly ripe almost golden 

 yellow. Seed one or two, coarsely pitted. 



In sholas and shady places. Pulneys : on the plateau. 

 (Pillar rocks, Glen falls.) Fyson 2989. Bonnie 262, 263, 265, 

 974- 



Wight's type sheet, No. 1295, has leaf-blades one-fourth to three-fourth 

 inch, and appears to be a smaller plant altogether. Possibly the one 

 described here is a shade form of it. 



OPHIORRHIZA. F.B.L 75 XXV. 



Small shrubs with opposite entire leaves and white, 

 pink or greenish tubular flowers arranged along one side 

 only of the branches in terminal forking cymes, and 

 distinguished from all other of our genera by the fruit, 

 which is flat, much wider than long, and opens by a 

 split along the long narrow top. Stipules soon falling. 



Species about 50, mostly in tropical Asia. 



Ophiorrhiza brunonis Wight and Arnott ; F.B.L iii 79, 

 XXV 10. Leaves 2 to 3 inches ovate-elliptic, acute or 

 acuminate, narrowed to the slender I-inch stalk. Term- 

 inal cymes of flowers rounded. Corolla tube, ]/i inch, 

 with narrow lobes. Capsule /4 inch. 



Nilgiris : near Lovedale, flowering September to October. 

 Fyson 1352. Bourne 5253. 



WEBERA. F.B.L 75 XLii. 



Trees or shrubs with terminal corymbiform cymes 

 of bisexual flowers ; corolla lobes twisted in bud ; fila- 

 ments of stamens short and anthers long ; style stout, 

 stigma long and thick ; fruit a two-celled berry with 

 two or more seeds. 



Species about 40, in tropical Asia. 



Wcbcra corymbosa Willd. ; F.B.L iii 102, XLII i. 

 A shola shrub or small tree, distinguished by its term- 

 inal cymose corymbs of white fragrant flowers with 



