Adina.~\ LXXV. RUBIACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 25 



more flaccid and broader leaves than the Khasian, with 8-9 pairs of nerves, and a 

 longer peduncle; its corollas have fallen away. 



4. A. polycephala, Benth. Fl. Hongkong, 146 ; leaves shortly petioled 

 lanceolate caudate-acuminate glabrous, heads in trichotomously branched 

 panicles, corolla glabrous. Nauclea polycephala, Wall. Cat. 6100; G. Don 

 Gen. Syst. iii. 467 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 65. 



SILHET and KHASIA Mts., De Silva, Griffith, &c. CHITTAGONG, J. D. H. $ T. T. 

 TENASSERIM, Kurz. Moulmein on Thounggyun, alt. 4000 ft., T. Lobb. 



A small evergreen tree. Leaves 3-5 by 1-1 in., rather thin, glossy above; 

 nerves 5-9 pair, caudate apex obtuse and variable in form and length, sometimes 

 strap- shaped ; petiole ^-f in! ; stipules long. Heads ^ in. diam. ; peduncles and 

 pedicels slender, glabrous or puberulous. Capsule obovoid. 



VAR. macrophylla ; leaves broader 6-9 by 2^-4 in. oblanceolate with more nume- 

 rous nerves (10-12 pairs) and much shorter tips. N. microeephala, Wall, in Herb. 

 Hook. Cephalanthus aralioides, Zoll. $ Morr. Syst. Vcrz. 61 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 

 152, 344. Nauclea trichotoma, Zoll. $ Morr. I.e. X. aralioides, Miq. I. c. Suppl. 

 538. Silhet, Wallich; Mergui, Griffith. Sumatra and Java: probably the Silhet 

 habitat is erroneous, the authority being a garden specimen. 



5. STEPHEGYNE, North. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves petioled ; stipules large, caducous. Flowers crowded 

 in globose axillary and terminal solitary panicled or subuinbelled heads united 

 by their confluent calyx-tubes, each peduncle with 2 deformed leaves at the top, 

 within which are 2 caducous bracts ; bracteoles paleaceous. Calyx-tube short ; 

 limb cupular or tubular, truncate or 5-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube 

 long, throat hairy or glabrous ; lobes 5, short, valvate. Stamens 5, on the throat 

 of the corolla, filaments short. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate 

 or mitriform ; ovules imbricated upwards on pendulous placentas. Fruit of 2 

 dehiscent cocci, many-seeded. Seeds small, testa winged, albumen fleshy. 

 DISTEIB. Species 10, tropical African and Asiatic. 



1. S. parvifolia, Korth. in Verh. Gesch. Nat. Sot. 161 ; leaves orbicular 

 oblong ovate or cordate, tip rounded acute or acuminate, calyx-limb very short, 

 corolla-tube much exceeding the lobes. Brand. For. FL 262. Nauclea parvi- 

 folia, Willd. ; Ro.rb. Hort. Beng. 14 ; Cor. PL i. 40, t, 52 ; FL Ind. i. 513 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 6093, excl. ft. partly, W. $ A. Prodr. 391 ; Wt. III. t. 123; Bedd. 

 FL Sylv. t. 34. N. parviflora, Pers. ; Dah. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 118. Cepha- 

 lanthus pilulifer, Lamk. 



Dry forests of the TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from the Chenab to Birma, ascending to 

 4000 ft., and throughout the drier parts of India to CEYLON. 



A small or large tree, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves extremely variable in size 

 and shape, deciduous, 2-6 in., with 6-8 pair of oblique nerves ; petiole short; stipules 

 obovate. Heads about 1 in. diam., with 2 linear-oblong leaves at the base ; 1 racts 

 caducous ; peduncles ^-3 in. Corolla glabrous within, stamens inserted in the tube. 

 Capsules ~ in. 



2. S. tubulosa, Hook. f. in Gen. PL ii. 31; leaves elliptic-oblong or 

 ovate-cordate shortly acuminate, calyx- limb tubular truncate, corolla-tube 

 much exceeding the lobes. Bedd. Fl. Sylv., Anal. Gen. 128, t. xxix. f. 1 (excl. 

 name parvifolia). Nauclea tubulosa, Arn. in Th wattes Enum. 137; Bedd. Ic. 

 PL Ind. Or. t. 18. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Cochin, Johnson. CEYLON, Macrae, &c. 

 A small glabrous tree. Leaves 2-6 in., rather membranous, sometimes pubescent 

 beneath, variable in shape, rarely acute at both ends, sometimes cordate ; nerves 



