LXXV. RUBIACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 47 



in short axillary nodding 1 racemes or heads; bracts simple or 3-toothed or 

 -partite. Calyx-lobes 5, broad, membranous, reticulate. Corolla rotate ; lobes 

 shorter and narrower than the calyx-lobes, valvate. Stamens 5, filaments 

 very short; anthers connate in a conical tube, bursting inwards. Ovary 2- 

 celled ; style filiform, stigma capitellate ; ovules numerous on swollen peltate 

 placentas. Fruit coriaceous or fleshy, usually irregularly bursting, many- 

 seeded. Seeds minute, globose, testa crustaceous pitted; embryo obovoid in 

 fleshy albumen. DISTKIB. Species 6-8, on the Dekkan Mts., Ceylon, and 

 Borneo. 



1. N. zeylanicus, Hook. Ic. Pl.t. 174; glabrous, leaves oblanceolate 

 acuminate narrowed into slender petioles, nerves beneath and inflorescence 

 puberulous, flowers racemose, calyx-lobes lanceolate. 



CEYLON ; Suffragam district, ascending to 4000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Stem woody, 2-8 in., clothed with spreading subspinescent stipular segments. 

 Leaves 4-8 by 1-2 in. ; nerves about 20 pair. Peduncles numerous, half as long as 

 the leaves. Flowers in. diam. Corolla not half as long as the calyx, lobes lanceo- 

 late. 



2. N. Wight!!, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 22 ; leaves sessile oblanceolate 

 acuminate glabrous above, nerves beneath and inflorescence furfuraceous, flowers 

 racemose, calyx-lobes ovate acute. N. Hookeriana, Wt. Ic. t. 52. Argo- 

 stemma calycinum, Sr. in Benn. PL Jav. Ear. 97 ; Wall. Cat. 8397.' 



Southern Mountains of the WESTERN PENINSULA ; Wynaad, Hamilton, &c. ; Nil- 

 gherris, Munro. CEYLON, ascending to 2000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Stem 2-4 in., woody, tortuous. Leaves 6-9 by 1^-3 in.; nerves 12-15 pair; 

 stipules lanceolate, membranous. Peduncles not half so long as the leaves. Flowers 

 | in. diam. Corolla nearly as long as the calyx, lobes ovate. 



3. N. capitata, Benth. tnss. ; leaves oblanceolate narrowed into long 

 stout petioles, nerves beneath and inflorescence pubescent, flowers capitate, 

 calyx-lobes ovate acute. 



CEYLON, Walker, Champion. 



Stem erect, stout, a foot or more high, with distant pairs of large leaves, glabrous. 

 Leaves 10-12 by 2-4 in.; nerves 15-20 pair; stipules membranous, 2-partite, 

 segments ovate caudate -acuminate, Peduncles axillary, shorter than the petioles; 

 heads of flowers globose or oblong. Flowers ^ in. diam. Corolla-lobes broadly ovate, 

 obtuse, half as long as the calyx. Very different from N. Wightii in the long stout 

 stem, much larger petioled leaves with more numerous nerves, and larger flowers. 



4. N. Championii, Benth. in Thiv, Enum. 139 ; leaves sessile or 

 petioled obovate-lanceolate obtuse bullate above, nerves beneath and inflores- 

 cence villous, flowers racemed, calyx-lobes ovate acute. 



CEYLON ; Kokool Cosle, Thwaites. 



Stem very short, woody. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., midrib hairy above, base obtuse 

 or narrowed into the petiole; nerves about 10 pair; stipules membranous, 2-partite. 

 Racemes half as long as the leaves. Flowers in. diam. Corolla-lobes narrow, 

 oblong, equalling the broadly ovate acute calyx-lobes. 



6. JN. Gardner!, Thw. Enum. 139; leaves obovate-lanceolate with 

 rounded apiculate tips narrowed into a very short petiole hairy above and 

 beneath, inflorescence racemose villous, calyx-lobes ovate- or orbicular-cordate. 



CEYLON; Pasdoon Corle and Hewetsea, Gardner, Thwaites. 



Stem short, stout, woody, villous. Leaves 4-10 by l-3 in., very membranous, 

 ciliate, obscurely crenulate ; nerves 15-18 pair; stipules 2-partite, segments caudate- 

 acuminate. Corolla not seen. 



