GIO LXX. RUBIACE.'E. 



Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 195 ; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1898) p. 646. — Flowers more or less throughout the year. Viiim. 

 Kat-lcuda. 



Common in thick shaded jungles of the Ghats, Dalzell ^- Gibson. Konkan : 

 Mivadonger neai' Pen, A'««i7/i«;- ! Deccan: LanoH, Woodrowl; Khaudala, Woodroiu; 

 Miihableshwar, C'ooA'fil, Woodrow. Kanaka: K\u\\\>ta., Wood row i Kk\a, miAAx, Rifch'e, 

 '6b\ ! ; com men in the evergreen forests of N. Kanara, Talbot. — Distuib. India (E. & 

 W. Peninsula, Birma) ; Malay Archipelago. 



\ KK. arffuta. Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 149. Leaves narrowly ob- 

 lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 4-5 by i-l^ in. 



S. M. CdUNTiiv: IVirva Ghat, Ritchie, ^ I 



4. Ixora elongata, Ileyne, in [Vail. Cat. (18"^8) 6131. A small 

 sbrub, glabrous except the calyx, bracts and corolla-lobes. Leaves 4-7 

 by lg-i^2 i"^-' elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, or subacute, glabrous, base 

 narrowed into the petiole ; main nerves 10-15 pairs ; petioles ^-f in. 

 long ; stipules broadly ovate, with a long slender cuspidate point. 

 Flowers pink, in peduncled brachiate cymes ; main peduncles 4-7 in. 

 long, with a pair of sessile leaves 1-4 in. long below the middle ; branches 

 of the cyme hairy, the lowest pair sometimes 3 in. long ; bracteoles 

 linear, J^ in. long, very hairy. Calyx yL in. long, hairy ; teeth 4, 

 triangular, subobtuse, hairy, ^-^ in. long. Corolla-tube ^-^ in. long, 

 without hairs at the mouth ; lobes 4, ovate-oblong, acute, | by j^ in., 

 usually hairy on the back. Filaments thick, short. Anthers sagittate 

 at the base, apiculate at the apex. Branches of the stigma -^ in. long, 

 linear. Fruit glabrous, slightly 2-lobed (Dahell), smooth, black when 

 ripe. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 141 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 194 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 645. I.vora pedimculata, Dalz. 

 in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1851) p. 121 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 113.— Flowers : 

 Feb. 



Konkan: Sfoclsl Deccan: Bhimashankar, Balzell\, Woodroiv. S. M. Country : 

 Parva Ghat, Dalzell ^~ Gibson, Kanaka : Ghats of N. Kanara, lalbot. — Distuib, 

 India (W. Peninsula). 



5. Ixora brachiata, Boxh. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 10. A small tree 

 15-30 ft. high; bark smooth, grey. Leaves 3-5| by l|-2^, pale when 

 dry, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, reticulately veined, glabrous, 

 usually attenuated at the base ; main nerves numerous, faint, very 

 slender ; petioles ^-f in. long, stout, rugose ; stipules short, broad, 

 shortly cuspidate. Flowers white, odorous, in sessile or shortly peduncled 

 cymes bracliiate with 2-3 pairs of long puberulous or sometimes nearly 

 glabrous branches ; Hower-buds globose ; the lowest bracts like the 

 stipules, the upper lanceolate-subulate united by a stipule-like membrane 

 across the nodes ; bracteoles minute, subulate. Calyx -gV ^^^' l<-'"g> 

 urceolate ; teeth 4, minute, triangular, membranous. Corolla-tube 

 4-4- in. long, without hairs in the mouth ; lobes yL by yL in., broadly 

 oblong, rounded at the apex, deflexed. Style clothed sparingly with 

 long white hairs, not much exserted ; branches of the stigma at first 

 connate, usually separating later. Fruit globose or didymous, the size 

 of a pea, smooth, purplish -black, edible. Seeds hemispheric, with a 

 deep pit on the ventral side within which the funicle was attached, 

 rugose. The flowers are the smallest of the genus and the only ones 



