614 LXX. RUBIACE.I. 



membranous. Flowers white, in dense ovoid heads over 1 in. long: 

 peduncles solitary (rarely 2-3 together), usually leaf-opposed, 1-2 in. 

 long. Calyx-limb truncate. Corolla iufundibuiiform ; tube | in. long, 

 the mouth hairy ; lobes 5, lanceolate, acute. Stamens 5 ; filaments 

 hairy ; anthers about |-exserted. Fruit white when ripe, smooth and 

 glossy, about the size of a small egg ; pyrenes ovoid, compressed, 

 -concavo-convex, winged on the edge. Fl. B. 1. v. 3, p. 155 ; Grab. Cat, 

 p. 90; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 114; Gfertn. Fruct. v. 1, t. 29; WaU. Cat. 

 8418 ; Eoxb. FL Ind. v. 1, p. 541 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 196 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 046 ; Watt, Diet, Econ. 

 Prod. V. 5, p. 261. — Flowers : May-June. Veun. A'l- Bdrtondi. 



Cultivated widely in many places tbrougliout India, found also as an escape, but 

 not truly wild. — It has not been mucli cultivated in the Bombay Presidency except in 

 Khandesh and less commonly at Pandarpur in the Deccan. The roots furnish a 

 valuable red dye. A very full description of the mode of cultivation of the tree and 

 of preparing and using the dye may be found in Watt's Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



Yar. 1. bracteata, Hook. f. FI. B. I. v. 3 (1880) p. 156. Anthers 

 included within the hairy mouth of the corolla-tube. Calyx-limb often 

 with a lanceolate or spathulate white foliaceous lobe sometimes nearly 

 5 in. long. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 196 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. 646. Morinda bracteata, Koxb. Hort. Beng. p. 15; 

 Fl. Ind. V. 1, p. 544 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 114, M. citrlfolia, Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 2, p. 354 {not of Linn.). 



KoNKAN : Malwan, Dalsell c|- Gihson ; Vingorla, Dahell ^- Gibson; coast of the 

 Konkan near the sea, Talhot ; near Marmagao close to the sea, JVoodrotv. 



This ouglit perhaps to take rank as a separate species. It is certainly indigenous 

 along the coast, while M. citrifolia is an introduction. 



Yar. 2. elUptka, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3 (1880) p. 156. Leaves 

 6-8 in. long, elliptic, polished, acuminate ; nerves strong on both 

 surfaces. 



I have seen no authentic specimens which can with certainty be referred to Bombay. 

 There is one specimen in Herb. Kew. marked " Herb. Stocks,'" but, like many of the 

 specimens in tiic Stocksian Herbarium, this has had no locality assigned to it. It is 

 merely a supposition that this specimen was collected in the Konkan. Otber specimens 

 of the var. in Herb. Kew. have come (rom Tenasserim, the Andamans, Birma, the 

 Malay Peninsula, Malacca. 



2. Morinda tinctoria, Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 15, var. 

 tomentosa, Hoolc f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 156. A small tree ; young 

 branches 4-angled, tomentose. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., elliptic, or 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, tomentose on both surfaces, one of the 

 pair of leaves near the peduncle usually suppressed or its place sometimes 

 taken by a small linear leaf from the axil of which the peduncle arises ; 

 petioles \-^ in. long, densely tomentose ; stipules often bifid, the lobes 

 triangular, acute. Flowers pure white, in globose heads ; peduncles 

 |-1 in. long, tomentose, solitary, leaf-opposed, or sometimes in the axil 

 of a small linear leaf which has taken the place of the suppressed leaf. 

 Calyx g in. long, truncate ; the limb sometimes (though rarely) with 

 a foliaceous oblong obtuse or subacute veined lobe reaching | in. long, 

 hairy outside. Corolla-tube g-1 in. long, very hairy outside, but not 

 hairy at the mouth : lobes |-jV by ^i in., oblong, obtuse or subacute, 

 hairy on the back. Anthers included within the tube. Fruit globose 



