Acranthera.'] LXXV. KUBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 9# 



minal usually long-peduncled, calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, corolla villous, tube 

 funnel-shaped, lobes oblong rounded. Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 24. 



CEYLON ; central province, alt. 3-5000 ft. on shaded banks, Macrae, &c. 



A low herb. Leaves 4-7 by l|-3 in., rugose, black when dry, narrowed into the- 

 petiole. Cyme and its stout peduncle densely hirsute. Calyx-lobes %-% in. Corolla 

 1 in. long. Berry hirsute, | in., fusiform. 



5. A. grandiflora, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 25; silkily villous, stem 

 short, leaves elliptic or oblong-obovate tip rounded glabrate above pubescent on 

 the nerves beneath, cymes subterminal long-peduncled silky, calyx-lobes linear 

 acute or obtuse, corolla villous, tube very long narrowly funnel-shaped, lobes 

 oblong rounded. 



TINNEVELLY; in moist forests, alt. 2-3000 ft., Bcddome. 



Very near A. zeylanica, but the pubescence of the stem and peduncle and cyme is 

 more silky, the leaves glabrous or with soft hairs above, quite glabrous beneath 

 between the nerves ; the calyx-lobes are under in. and quite linear, and the pale 

 blue corolla-tube H in. long. 



6. A . anamallica, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 25 ; almost stemless, leaves 

 elongate obovate-oblong tip rounded with scattered bristly hairs above, pubes- 

 cent on the nerves beneath, cymes subsessile silkily pubescent, calyx-lobes short 

 ovate or elliptic spreading, corolla funnel-shaped pubescent, lobes oblong- 

 rounded. 



TINNEVELLY ; Anamallay Mts., alt. 4500 ft. in moist woods, Beddome. 



Stem -1 in., with strong roots from the base. Leaves 2-6 by 1^ in., black when 

 dry, narrowed to the base but not into the petiole, which is |-f in., and densely 

 tomentose. Cymes many- flowered, flowers pedicelled. Calyx-lobes ^ in. Corolla 1 in. 

 long, deep blue. 



31. XiUCXNJEA, DC. 



Erect or twining glabrous shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, stipules small or large. 

 Flowers white, 6-10 together, crowded on peduncled discoid receptacles which 

 are axillary or terminal and solitary or umbelled. Calyx-tube turbinate, limb 

 annular or cupular, quite entire persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube broad, 

 throat bearded , lobes 4, coriaceous, valvate in bud. Stamens 4, in the tube of 

 the corolla, filaments short villous ; anthers narrow, included. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style filiform or thickened below the middle, stigmas 2 linear or spathulate ;. 

 ovules numerous, on fleshy peltate placentas. Befry globose or turbinate, 2- 

 celled, many-seeded. Seeds compressed, testa thickly coriaceous smooth ^ 

 embryo minute in fleshy albumen. DISTRIB. Species 6, Malayan. 



1. Zi. XHorinda, DC. Prodr. iv. 368 ; branches flexuous, leaves elliptic 

 or ovate acute shortly petioled, stipules triangular. Wall. Cat. 8437. Morinda 

 polysperma, Jack in Mai. Misc. i. 14 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 204, 



Littoral. SINGAPORE, Jack] Malacca, Griffith, Maingay; PENANO, Wallich. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago. 



Erect, glabrous or nearly so, branches stout. Leaves 2-3 in., brown when dry, 

 nerves slender; petiole | in. Peduncles solitary in opposite axils, or terminal and 

 often subumbellate. Heads f in. diam., few-flowered. Corolla -^ in., densely hairy 

 within. Berries crowded, 6-8 in a head, broadly turbinate, areolate. 



32. XiEUCOCODON, Gard.i. 



A climbing glabrous epiphytic rooting shrub. Leaves coriaceous ; stipules 

 large, oblong, connate at the base, tip 2-toothed. Flowers white, in solitary 

 terminal peduncled involucrate heads ; involucre bell-shaped with the flowers 



