11. Hyptihttheba. ] 84. RUBIACEM. [12. Ixoba. 



L. often undulate glabrous and shining both sides, (or nerves beneath 

 pubescent F.B.I.) sec. n. 6-7 prs. slender, others obscure. Petiole {-y. 

 Stipules acuminate persistent, hairy. Corolla-tube £" hairy within, with 

 4-5 spreading lobes. Style included 2-fid. Ovary 2-celled. Seeds 4-5 

 in each cell, somewhat angled with a characteristic fibrous testa, about 

 f diam. Flesh of unripe fruit viscous. 



13. Iiora, L. 



Small trees or shrubs with opp. or ternate leaves and 

 flowers in terminal 3-chotomous often corymbose cymes, li- 

 very rarely 5-merous. Calyx-tube ovoid, limb persistent. 

 Corolla-tube very long and slender with 4 spreading lobes. 

 Stamens on the mouth with usually very short filaments and 

 slender linear anthers. Ovary 2-celled style filiform, exsert j 

 stigma slender fusiform with 2 branches. Fruit with 2 

 coriaceous pyrenes. Seeds peltate. 



L. acuminate. Lower cyme-branches 2" long or more . 1. undulata. 

 L. rounded at apex. Lower cyme-branches under 2 V long . 2. parvijlora. 



1. I. undulata, Roxb. Kota, K.? 



A large shrub with oblong or lanceolate shining leaves 

 5-9" by l|-3 7 and lax brachiate panicles with slender-peduncled 

 branches of white flowers T V long with linear petals. 

 Fr. j" dian? dull-Durple or slate, with two plano-convex 

 pyrenes. 



Near streams ; Saranda forests and also in Manbhnm and Huzari- 

 bagh ; Santal Parganahs common. Fls. April-May. Fr. ripens Aug.-Sept. 

 Evergreen. 



L. with undulate margins, glabrous, acute or acuminate. Petiole \-V. 

 Stipules broad with slender compressed cusps. Panicles pubescent with 

 a pair of reduced leaves at their base, sessile or long pedoncled, 6-8'' with 

 iow«r internodes 2-3'' long. .FlAuds \'' slender. 



2. I. parviflora, Vahl. Pete, K. ; Merom met', 8.; 

 Datranjin, Kharw, ; Kholan, Ohatw. ; Konthra, Mai Pah ; 

 Kota Gandhal, Loha jangia, if. ; Rangan, Beng. 



Usually a small tree with smooth very coriaceous oblong 

 or elliptic sub-sessile leaves 3-6* by JJ-2J 7 and compact 



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