19. Ham* .onia. ] Si. RUBIACEM. [21. Khoxia. 



Singbhnm, on rocks on northern aspects, Manbhum ; Hazaribagh ; 

 Ranchi ; Santal Parganahs. Fls. Aug.-Jany. 



L. elliptic-lanceolate or -oblong, or ovate acute, more or less pubescent 

 beneath with 15-20 prs. strong sec. nerves and reticulate nervnles. 

 Petiole H". Fls. capitate on the branches of the panicle H" long 

 pubescent. Calyx hairy with linear sepals. Ovary 5-celled. Style 

 filiform, 5-fid above. Ovule basal erect in each cell. 



The root is used in diarrhoea and cholera. The flowers are much 

 frequented by Humming-bird Hawk moths. 



20. Psecteria, L. 



1. P. fffltida, L. Gandhali, E.; Gandha bhadulia, Beng. 

 (in allusion to the smell). 



A slender wiry climbing foetid shrub with ell. -ovate acute 

 or acuminate leaves 3-4" by 2", nearly sessile dingy- 

 purple tubular-funnel-shaped fls. §* long in axillary and 

 terminal cymose panicles. Fruits dry compressed with a thin 

 fragile veined epicarp separating from 2 oblong compressed 

 winged pyrenes. 



Mixed forest and scrub. , Eanchi-Manbhunr ghats ; Ranchi Hill near 

 Pitorea, Wood. Fls. Aug.-Od. Fr. Dec. 



L. glabrous with rounded or snb-cordate base. Petioles 1-2* often 

 twisted. Panicles 4-6" pubescent. Calyx-lobes 4-5 small obtuse. Petals 

 ith as long as the corolla tube oblong with white incurved crisped 

 margins, tube glandular hairy within. Bt. in the tube. Ovary 2-celled. 



21. Rnoiia, L. 



Erect herbs or undershrubs, stems with 2 lines of hairs. 

 Stipules connate with the petioles into an entire or bristly 

 sheath. Fls. very small cymosely or spicately arranged on the 

 branches of the corymbose cymose panicles. Sepals 4 minute. 

 Corolla-tube long, throat villous, petals 4. St. in the tube. 

 Ovary 2-celled. Fruit dry of 2 indehiscent cocci, which 

 8ometimes remain united, the whole fruit separating from a 

 slender persistent columella which leaves a perforation 

 through the axis, or columella deciduous. 



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