192 RUBIACE^. 



five waxy, spreading petals, slender anthers, and thick 

 style ; and remarkable for the hard glossy leaves, fur- 

 rowed by the deeply impressed main nerves. 



Branches nearly round, with smooth reddish brown 

 bark, not lenticelled, slightly swollen at the nodes : 

 stipules forming a complete, short, tube ^ inch long 

 above the insertion of the leaves. Leaf-stalk % inch, 

 stout, puberulous ; blade about 4 by 2 inches, larger 

 or smaller, elliptic, bluntly acuminate, entire, hard, 

 glabrous, very glossy, deeply furrowed ; nerves about 

 ten pairs, impressed on the upper side, raised on the 

 lower often (? always), with perforations at the axils ; 

 veins inconspicuous. Corymbs terminal, regularly three- 

 branched ; peduncle one inch, branches stout, pedicels 

 1/30 inch, calyx-tube % inch, campanulate, lobes half as 

 long triangular. Corolla tube not as long as the calyx ; 

 petals spreading out flat from just inside it, /4 by J^ 

 inch, ovate, waxy. Anthers slender, % inch, nearly 

 sessile in the mouth of the corolla. Style projecting 

 about 1/5 inch above, thickened upwards and ridged. 

 Ovary two-celled, with two or more ovules in each cell. 

 Fruit a small round berry, J4 inch, surmounted by the 

 very conspicuous calyx-teeth (like a diminutive Guava 

 fruit). Seeds few or many, angular with one side 

 rounded. 



In sholas. Nilgiris : Ootacamund to Pykara, flowering May. 

 Pulneys : Shembaganur. Fy soft ^00, 2 4g2. Bourne 482^ 2665. 



Gen. Dist. Western Peninsula and Central Provinces. 



KNOXIA. F.B.I. 75 LXi. 



Herbs with ovate or lanceolate many-veined leaves, 



bristly stipules, terminal corymbs of blue or purple 



flowers and in each cell of the two-celled ovary a single 



pendent ovule with its stalk swollen and spread out into 



