612 Lxx. nrBi.vcE.'E. 



Salsette, Graham; Tliana, Wood row ; Ratuagiri, Kanii/^-ar \ Deccan : Kolhapur, 

 Cooke ! Kanaka : common in the moist forests of N. Kanara near the sea-coast, 

 'Talhot; Kula naddi, liifchic, 348 !— Distrib. Cultivated throughout India as an 

 oruamental shrub, indigenous in the W. Peninsula; Cejlon. 



23. PAVETTA, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, petiolate, usually mem- 

 branous ; stipules intrapetiolar, usually connate into a lax sheath, 

 deciduous. I'lowers in axillary or terminal 3-chotomously branched 

 usually many-flowered corymbose cymes, \^•hite or greenish, bracteolate. 

 Calyx-tube ovoid, turbinate or campanulate; lobes 4 (very rarely 5), 

 short or long. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube slender, cylindric ; throat 

 naked or bearded ; lobes 4 (very rarely 5), frequently longer than the 

 tube, twisted. Stamens 4 (very rarely 5), inserted in the throat or 

 mouth of the corolla ; filaments short or long, or 0. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules solitary in each cell, attached to the middle of the septum, 

 amphitropous, the placenta fleshy, often tumid ; style long, much 

 exserted ; stigma fusiform or somewhat clavate, undivided or 2-dentate. 

 Berry pisiform, fleshy, with 2 pyrenes which are convex on the back and 

 concave on the face. Seeds conform to the pyrenes ; testa membranous ; 

 albumen horny ; cotyledons foliaceous ; radicle inferior. — Distrib. 

 Tx"opics of the Old World and S. Africa ; species about 60. 



A genus very closely allied to Ixora from which it may be dis- 

 tinguished by the stipules, the very long style, and the tumid placentas. 



Leaves pale when dry ; corolla-tube ^ in . long 1 . P. indica. 



Leaves black when dry ; corolla-tube 1 in. long 2. P. hispidula, 



[var. si])honantha, 



1. Pavetta indica, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 110. A stout bushy 

 shrub 2-4 ft. high ; bark thin, smooth, yellowish ; young branches 

 terete, glabrous. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2| in., membranous, variable in 

 shape and size, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, acute or acuminate, glabrous on both sides, base tapering; 

 main nerves 8-10 pairs ; petioles |-| in. long ; stipules connate, 

 triangular, acute, thin, deciduous. Tlowers white, odorous, in terminal 

 sessile corymbose pubescent cymes ; pedicels \-\ in. long, densely pubes- 

 cent ; bracts broad, membranous, the lower cupular ; buds ohlong-clavate. 

 Calyx densely pubescent, ^ in. long ; tube narrow ly campanulate ; teeth 

 -\r in. long, triangular, acute, slightly reflexed at the tip. Corolla-tube 

 ^ in. long ; lobes ^-f"-^ in. by -^ in., linear-oblong, subacute. Style 

 white, glabrous or nearly so ; stigma green, narrowly clavate, puberulous. 

 Fruit |-| in. in diam., globose, black, smooth. In all the specimens 

 I have examined from the Bombay hills I have found the pedicels 

 and calyx to be densely pubescent even though the leaves were quite 

 glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 150 ; Grab. Cat. p. 92 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 112 ; Wight, Icon. t. 148 ; Trim. El. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 349 ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. ed. 2, p. 195 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 646 ; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 114. — Flowers: Mar.-May. 

 Yehn. Pdpat. 



Very common on hills throughout the Presidency. Konkan : Matheran, H. M. 

 Birdvood, Woodrow; Karanja liill, Balzell 6; Gih&on. Deccan : Maliableshwar, 

 very comnion, Cooke I, Graham ; Kliandala, Woodrow ! ; Igatpuri, Kanitkar ! — Distkib. 

 Throughout India ; Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, S. China, N. Australia. 



