92 LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Miissanda. 



glabrousness of tlie corolla and the very large stipules. I have seen neither of these 

 last in fruit, or from their native locality ; they may be forms of the protean M. 

 frondosa. Wight and Arnott refer Roxbxirgh's drawing marked M. frondosa (from 

 the Indian Museum collection) to M. corymbosa, Roxb., I do not know on what autho- 

 rity. M. corymbosa hence remains a doubtful plant, allied to M. Roxburghii, differ- 

 ing in the very large persistent stipules, and large glabrous flowers with broad not 

 appendaged corolla-lobes. As Roxburgh does not describe the calyx-teeth as per- 

 sisting on the berry it may be assumed that they are caducous, as in M. frondosa. 



M. CUNEIFOUA-, Don Prodr. 139; branches and cuneate*obloug acuminate leaves 

 on both surfaces pubescent, bracts lanceolate, calyx-teeth linear acute 5 times shorter 

 .than the corolla. Nipal, Walllch. This is probably M. incana, but the description 

 applies as well to Af. frondosa, Roxburghii, glabra, and macrophylla, all Nipalese 

 specie*. 



30. ACItANTJIERA, I 



Hairy herbs or low undershrubs. Leaves large, membranous, stipules 

 triangular. Flowers blue, in sessile or stoutly peduncled subterminal bracteate 

 cymes. Calyx-tube oblong; segments 5, usually very long and persistent. 

 Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped, hairy without ; lobes short, valvate in bud 

 with everted margins. Stamens 5, included within the tube, filaments filiform ; 

 anthers included, cohering in a tube, pointed and spurred at their tips. Ovary 

 1-celled; style filiform, stigma clavate furrowed; ovules numerous, on 2 parietal 

 2-lamellate placentas. Berry oblong or fusiform, 2-celled, many seeded. Seeds 

 minute, subglobose, testa crustaceous pitted ; embryo clavate, in dense albumen. 

 DISTEIB. Species 10, Indian and Malayan. 



1. A. I&Zaing-ayi, Hook. f. ; stem slender woody, leaves elliptic abruptly 

 acuminate glabrous, cymes terminal, calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, corolla-tube 

 very slender tomentose, lobes ovate-lanceolate. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 940). 



Stem branched. Leaves 5-7 by 2| 4 in., very membranous, base acute or rounded, 

 petiole slender ; stipules triangular-lanceolate, 2 -fid. Cymes subsessile. Calyx-lobes 

 \ in., puberulous, acute, deciduous. Corolla-tube \\ in., throat not swollen; limb 

 11 in. diam., divided nearly to the base into pubescent lobes. Berry % in., ellip- 

 soid, 2-celled, areolate, not crowned by the calyx-lobes. 



2. A. Griffith!!, Hook. /. ; stem slender woody, branchlets and petioles 

 silky, leaves broadly elliptic abruptly acuminate finely pubescent beneath, 

 cymes terminal, calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, corolla-tube very slender tomen- 

 tose, lobes lanceolate acuminate. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3089). 



This so closely resembles A. Maingay i that I doubt its locality being correct ; it 

 differs in the silky branchlets and petioles, the much longer narrower calvx-lobes 

 in. long, and the larger corolla with the limb 2^ in. diam. with lanceolate lobes, 

 ;ind the throat dilated and cylindrical. 



3. A. tomentosa, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8398 (Androtropis) ; hirsutely 

 tomentose, stem very stout, leaves elliptic or oblanceolate acute hirsute on both 

 surfaces, cymes short-pedimcled subterminal, calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, 

 corolla villous, tube funnel-shaped, lobes short rounded. 



KHASIA MTS., De Silva, Griffith. CACHAR, Kcenan. 



Stem short (epiphytic, Keenan) cylindric. Leaves 4-10 in., black when dry, 

 rugose ; stipules broad, acute. Calyx-lobes f-1 in. Corolla l in. long, blue ?, densely 

 villous. Ovary long, fusiform. Berry 1% in., with persistent calyx-lobes. 



4. A. zeylanica, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 21 ; hirsute, stem very 

 ehort, leaves oblanceolate tip rounded hirsute on both surfaces, cymes subteiv 



