148 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



consistent with the specific name, still less with B.'s description of 

 it as " a charming fragrant -flowered shrub.'* 



19. SPERMACOCE. 



1. S. stricta. A small erect rough plant with square hairy 

 stems, leaves sessile linear lanceolate, flowers very small, short- 

 tubed, white, crowded in the axils, capsule roundish, crowned 

 by the calyx, smooth below, rough above. 



Common in the rains at Rutnagherry, Bombay, and other places, 

 and throughout India (#.). Not in D. or G. 



2. S. hispida. A rather trailing plant, all rough, stems square, 

 reddish, leaves ovate sessile, flowers very small, few, in axillary 

 whorls, corolla long-tubed, blue or white, capsule as in the last. 

 Madnaghauti, Ghautiche bdji, dhoti. 



I noted the corolla tube as white, lobes lilac. 

 A common weed. Throughout India (ff.). 



Psychotria, shrubs, fruit of 2 pyrenes. *P. truncata (Grutnilea vagin- 

 nans, D.). Smooth, with large obovate leaves and very large sheath- 

 ing stipules, flowers small, white, fruit like black pepper. Chorla 

 Ghaut and Mahableshwar (D.). Matheran (Birdwood). H. has also 

 in Canara and southwards, P. Dalsellii, with very large broad oblong 

 or roundish stipules, and large persistent bracts. 



Chasalia, shrub, corolla tube long, curved. *C. curvijlora (Psychotria 

 amliyua, D.). Smooth, leaves oblong lanceolate, flowers white in 

 cymes, fruit size of pea. Parwar Ghaut (-D.). 



Geophila, small herbs, corolla tube long. *G. reniformis, creeping, 

 leaves roundish, deeply cordate, flowers very small, corolla lobes 

 recurved, fruit small, round, purple. Vingorla (D.). 



Saprosma, shrub, calyx limb dilated. *8. Indicum. Smooth, with 

 sessile oblong leaves, stipules sheathing, flowers few, terminal, berry 

 ovoid, blue, crowned with the calyx teeth, very fetid. Chorla Ghaut 

 (D.). 



(/) 20. RUBIA. 



R. cordifolia. A rough straggling climber, leaves in 4's, long- 

 petioled, ovate cordate pointed, strongly nerved, flowers minute 

 white, usually 5-cleft in large compound panicles, fruit size of 

 a small pea, black, sometimes twin. Manjit, itdri. Indian 

 madder. 



Mahableshwar and the higher Ghauts. Throughout the hilly dis- 

 tricts of India, very variable (H.). 



This is very much in the style of the common English goose grass 

 (Galium aperine], found also in the Himalayas. 



Co/ea arabica, the coffee shrub, Kawa, bun, belongs to the 

 same tribe as Ixora, &c. Sir E. Tennent describes the great 

 beauty of the shrub at every season. 



