Adenosacme.'] IAXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 95 



PENANG ; on the hill, Wallich. 



Branches cylindric, with pale smooth bark. Leaves 4-5 by 1^-2 in., elliptic, 

 *ubacute, brown and shining when dry, nerves few; petiole i~|in. Peduncles 1-2 in.; 

 flowers few, small, shortly pedicelled. Corolla in., fleshy, lobes longer than the 

 tube. This curious plant has been collected by Wallich alone in 1822. 



35. ADENOSAC1VIE, Wall. 



Small shrubs. Leaves very membranous, many-nerved ; stipules oblong or 

 lanceolate or foliaceous, sometimes toothed and* glandular. Flowers white, 

 yellow or greenish, in axillary and terminal panicled cymes with spreading 

 tranches; bracts often glandular. Calyx-tube globose or hemispheric, lobes 

 4-6, persistent. Corolla tubular, short or long ; lobes 4-6, triangular, valvate 

 an bud, with everted margins. Stamens 4-6, inserted in the tube, filaments 

 short ; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 2- or 5-6-celled ; style slender or thickened 

 above, stigmas 2- or 5-6 linear; ovules very numerous, on fleshy peltate 

 placentas. Berry small, globose, 4-6-lobed, coriaceous or fleshy, 2- or 5-6- 

 celled, indehiscent or loculicidal at the crown, many-seeded, placentas globose. 

 Seeds minute, angled, testa dotted; embryo minute, in fleshy albumen. 

 DISTRIB. Species 4-5, Indian and Malayan. 



The flowers of this genus are di- or tri-morphic. 

 * Berry 2-celled, white. 



1. A. long-ifolia, Watt. Cat. 6280; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed 

 to a long acuminate point pubescent or puberulous beneath, stipules small 

 oblong-lanceolate, cymes terminal and axillary sessile or shortly peduncled, 

 "branches slender divaricating, corolla J-f in. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 160. A. 

 malayana, Wall. Cat. 6282. Bertiera javanica and fasciculate, Blume Bijd. 

 4)87; DC. Prodr. iv. 392. Mycetia javanica, Reinw. Rondeletia longifolia, 



Wall, in JRoxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey Wall. ii. 137 ; Don Prodr. 138. Wend- 

 landia longifolia, DC. 1. c. 412. W. malayana, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 519. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA and mountains of Eastern Bengal from KUMAON, alt. 

 4000 ft., to SIKKIM, alt. 2-5000 ft. ; KHASIA Mrs., alt. 0-5000 ft. ; ASSAM, CACHAH, 

 CHITTAGONO, MUNXIPORE, TENASSERIM, MALACCA, and PEKING. 



A bush with very brittle branches, covered with smooth yellowish shining spongy 

 bark. Leaves 4-10 in., very variable in width, narrowed into the slender petiole 

 3~2 in. long, above glabrous puberulous pubescent or with small scattered hairs, 

 beneath always more pubescent or tomentose than above ; stipules oblong-lanceolate 

 entire or 2-fid, glabrous hairy or with marginal glands. Cymes often 6-8 in. across, 

 3-chotomously branched, glabrous or pubescent ; branches very slender, zig-zag ; 

 bracts and bracteoles small, glandufer; flowers pedicelled, solitary or fascicled. 

 Calyx-tube in., hemispheric or subglobose ; teeth about as long, ovate subulate or 

 lanceolate and sinus glandular, persistent. Corolla fleshy, 5 in., glabrous or pubes- 

 cent, tubular, yellow ; lobes small, broadly ovate. Berries % in. diam., always white. 

 Flowers (as observed by "Wallich and C. B. Clarke) di- or tri-morphous ; one form has 

 short styles and stamens inserted over the ring of hairs above the middle of the tube ; 

 in another the style is long, and the stamens basal inserted below the ring of hairs ; 

 the third has a short wide corolla with the stamens about its middle. In diseased 

 specimens the bracts and calyx-teeth become very hard short broad and toothed, 

 reflcxecl, white like the bark, and shining. 



2. A. stipulata, Jfook.f.; leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, nerves puberulous beneath, stipules very large foliaceous, cymes terminal 

 with their peduncles pubescent shorter than the leaves, bracts linear, flowers 

 .shortly pedicelled corymbose. 



E. NIPAL and SIKKIM, alt. 2-5000 ft. in very wet places, J. D. H., C. B. Clarke, &c. 



