HeJyotis.] LXXV. RUBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 53 



ft Stipules pectinate. 



8. K. stylosa, Br. in Wall. Cat. 853 ; glabrous, leaves petioled ovate or 

 elliptic-ovate acute glabrous or hairy on the distinct nerves beneath, stipules 

 connate pectinate with long subulate segments, cymes terminal, calyx-tube pro- 

 duced above the ovary, teeth short acute. W." # A. Prodr. 407 ; Wt Ic. t. 

 1027. II. P Leschenaultiana, DC. Prodr. iv. 422, excl. var. ft. Knoxia 

 Wightiana, Schlecht. in Herb. Hohenaek., not of Wallich. 



Mountains of MALABAR and TRAVANCORE, alt. 5-6000 ft., common, Noton, &c. 



A much branched shrub, yellow-green when dry. Leaves 1-2 in., very variable in 

 breadth and shape, coriaceous, margins flat or recurved, nerves few obscure above ; 

 stipules pubescent. Cymes short, flowers crowded. Corolla-lobes woolly within. 

 Capsules globose, many-seeded. 



9. H. articularis, Br. in Wall. Cat. 854 ; quite glabrous, leaves sessile 

 small lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate subacute, margins recurved, nerves below 

 very broad, stipules connate pectinate with long subulate segments, calyx-tube 

 produced above the ovary, lobes very short. W. 8f A. Prodr. 407 ; Wt. Ic. t. 

 1028. 



NILGHKRRY Mts., Soton, Wight, &c. 



A small rigid stout leafy bush, yellowish when dry. Leaves f-1 in., very rigid, 

 with 8-10 very broad and much raised longitudinal nerves beneath, marked by 

 channels above. Cymes terminal, small, dense-flowered. Calyx-limb a 4-toothed cup, 

 unaltered in fruit. Corolla puberulous, lobes glabrous, mouth woolly. Capsule very 

 variable, from in. globose to in., obovoid ; cells with 8-10 angular seeds. 



10. ZZ. pruinosa, W. $ A. Prodr. 408 ; leaves petioled ovate-lanceolate 

 or lanceolate acuminate glabrous, nerves distinct, stipules free pectinate, seg- 

 ments subulate, cymes pruinose, calyx-limb not produced, teeth subulate 

 recurved shorter than the capsule. H. corymbosa, Wall. Cat. 6202, chiefly; 

 837 a. H. lentigiiiosa, Bedd. Ic. PI. Lid. Or. t, 6. 



TRAVANCORE and MALABAR ; Quilon. Wight ; iu the backwaters, Beddome. 



A shrub, yellowish when dry. Leaves 2-2 in., margins flat ; nerves few, slender ; 

 petiole ^-\ in. ; stipules not connate, short. Cymes spreading, many-flowered, hoary. 

 Corolla-mouth woolly. Capsules small, obovoid, subclavate or globose, many-seeded. 



11. H. swertioides, Hook. f. leaves sessile glabrous elliptic acute 

 margins undulate, stipules free very long slender pectinate with distant subu- 

 late segments, cymes very many in the upper axils and terminal densely pubes- 

 cent, calyx-limb not produced, lobes lanceolate longer than the tube. 



TINNEVELLI; in the Pulney Mts., Wight (Kew Distrib. 359). 



A very fine and remarkable species, tall, erect, stout, with distant nodes, and a 

 profuse oblong head of cymes, yellow when dry. Leaves 3 by l|-lf in., coriaceous, 

 contracted at the base, but hardly petioled ; nerves few, hardly raised ; stipules ^-f 

 in., erect, stiff. Cymes very many-flowered. Corolla woolly at the mouth. Fruit not seen. 

 The stout strict branches and erect sessile broad coriaceous opposite leaves give 

 the plant a gentianoid aspect. 



12. XI. obscura, Thwaites Enmn. 14; glabrous except the youngest 

 vshoots and sometimes the nerves beneath, leaves sessile or petioled elliptic- 

 lanceolate or ovate or suborbicular acute obtuse or acuminate, stipules connate 

 pectinate, peduncles axillary filiform, cymes few-flowered, calyx-teeth subulate 

 shorter than the capsule. 



CEYLOX ; Central provinces, alt. 6-8000 ft., Walker, Gardner, &c. 

 A rigid woody shrub, black when dry, occurring under three very dissimilar forms, 

 which Thwaites unites . 1. leaves petioled lanceolate 1-3 in., nerves very obscure, 



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