G20 LXX. RUBIACE.E. 



1. Geophila reniformis, D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. (1825) p. 136. 

 A small creeping herb ; stems prostrate, 1 ft. long or less, rooting 

 at the nodes, filiform, puberulous. Leaves 2-I5 in. in diam., orbicular, 

 deeply cordate, pubescent or glabrous ; petioles h-2 in. long, pubescent ; 

 stipules broadly ovate, obtuse. Flowers terminal, solitary, or in 

 peduncled 2-3-lio\vered umbels; peduncles 5-I5 in. long; pedicels 

 very short ; bracts lanceolate-subulate. Calyx -^ in. long ; teeth longer 

 thau the tube, lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Corolla glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent outside ; tube dilated upwards, hairy in the throat ; lobes 

 ovate-oblong, acute, shorter than the tube, recui'ved. Berry ^-f in. in 

 diam., globose, crowned with the large calyx-limb, smooth, pulpy, red 

 when ripe ; pyrenes small, flat and smooth on the ventral, rough and 

 bluntly keeled on the convex dorsal surface. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 178; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. Ill ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 363 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 3, p. 488. Psychotria lierhacea, Jacq. Enum. PL Carib. (1760) 

 p. 16 ; Grab. Cat. p. 92. 



R;iro. KoNKAN : S. Konkan, Nimmo ex Graham ; Vingorla, Balzcll cf- Gibson. 



The plant is said by Kurz to possess properties similar though inferior to those of 

 CepJitelis Ipccacucmha. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. — Distrib. India (Silhet and 

 Kliasia hills, Tenasserim, the Andamans, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



29. LASIANTHUS, Jack. 



Shrubs often fetid ; branches terete, compressed at the nodes. Leaves 

 distichous, opposite, shortly petiolate, usually caudate-acuminate, with 

 arching nerves and closely-set transverse veins which are simple or 

 forked, or branched and reticulate ; stipules iuterpetiolar, broad, rarely 

 narrow. Flowers small, in axillary, rarely peduncled, often bracteate 

 clusters, cymes or heads. Calyx-tube short, subglobose, ovoid or oblong ; 

 limb short or long, 3-7 -toothed or -lobed, persistent. Corolla infundi- 

 buliform or hypocrateriform, throat villous ; lobes 3-7, valvate. Stamens 

 4-6 on the corolla-throat ; filaments short ; anthers included, often 

 apiculate. Ovary 4-9-celled ; ovules solitary in each cell, erect from the 

 base, anatropous. Drupes of 4-9 pyrenes ; pyrenes cartilaginous or 

 criistaceous, triquetrous, sometimes k<?eled or winged on the back, 

 1-seeded. Seeds narrowly oblong, slightly curved ; testa membranous ; 

 albumen fleshy; embryo terete, elongate; cotyledons short, obtuse; 

 radicle elongate, inferior. — Distrib. Chiefly Tropical Asian ; species 

 about 80. ; . . 



Cymes sessile ; corolla hairy outside ; drupe black ..' 1. L. sessilis. 



Cymes peduncled ; corolla glabrous outside ; drupe black 2. L. vcnulosus. 



1. Lasianthus sessilis, Talbot, Trees (^- Sh-iibs, Bomb.ed. I (1894) 

 p. 114. A stout gregarious shrub usually branched from the base ; 

 branchlets appressedly hairy. Leaves opposite, 2-5 by 1-2 in., elliptic, 

 acuminate, ghibrous above, hairy on the nerves beneath, base acute 

 or rounded ; main nerves 6 pairs, prominent beneath, curved upwards ; 

 petioles \ in. long, hairy ; stipules broad, acuminate, hairy. Flowers 

 small, white, sessile, in axillary fascicles ; bracts triangular, hairy. 

 Calyx-tube short ; teeth triangular, hairy. Corolla tubular, slightly 

 hairy outside, villous inside. Ovary 4-celled ; style with 4 branches. 

 Drupe fleshy, black ; pyrenes 4, triangular, dorsally tubercled. The 



