RUBIACE^. 195 



the ovary ; teeth longer. Corolla tube ^ by 1/20 inch, 

 petals % inch, spreading or at length reflexed close 

 against the tube. Anthers linear, 1/16 inch, attached to 

 the mouth. Style exserted i/io inch, bifid. Fruit nearly 

 round, of two cells, /^ by J^ by J4 inch, crowned by the 

 small remains of the calyx ; seeds two, hemispherical, 

 attached by the middle to the axile placenta ; endosperm 

 curved round the outer margin of the seed, 1/30 inch 

 thick in the middle where lies the embryo ; cotyledons 

 thin and flat, radicle comparatively long, pointing down- 

 wards, t. 142. <2. anther ; b. bud; c. opened flower; 

 y. fruit ; s. seed ; e. embryo ; /a. two fruits in section. 



In shuias. Nilgiris : not perhaps at the highest levels ; 

 Pykara, flowers May ; Kotagiri. A very pretty tree, when in 

 flower, and fragrant. Pulneys : at lower levels. Fyson 11 94, 

 1737. Bourne 213, 302. Not elsewhere. 



PAVETTA. F.B.I. 75 Lxvii. 



Shrubs and small trees with terminal cymose corymbs 



of flowers. Similar to IXORA, but distinguished by large 



stipular bracts at the base of the lower branches of the 



inflorescence, stipules more united into a tube, style 



much longer and protruding from the corolla, and ovules 



on large placentas. 



Species about 60 in the tropics of the Old World. One 

 species P. indica is common on the plains, about Madras. 



Pavctta breviflora Z)C. ; F.BJ. iii 151, LXVII 5. A 

 shola shrub, distinguished from all others of this order, 

 by the long, thickened, undivided style projecting ^ inch 

 beyond the corolla, by the rather long buds white with 

 green tips, and by the broad stipules at the lower branches 

 of the cymose corymbs. 



Branches smooth, shining, light yellowish grey, 



conspicuously marked at the nodes by the scars of the 



stipules. Leaves elliptic, bluntly acuminate, narrowed to 



the short petiole, 3 to 5 by I J4 to l^ inches, quite glabrous, 



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