96 LXXV. KUBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Adenosacme. 



A lax rooting shrub, bark green opaque. Leaves 7-10 in., black when dry ; petiole 

 1^-3 in.; stipules |-1 in. diara., orbicular, obtuse, glabrous. Flowers in rounded 

 corymbs at the ends of the horizontal cyme-branches. Calyx-tube hemispheric, teeth 

 oblong-ovate recurved. Corol'a in the only flowers seen shorter than the calyx-teeth, 

 -with lanceolate lobes and exsertod stamens. Berries 2-celled, white. 



3. A. xnacrostachya, Hook, f. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate- 

 quite glabrous on both surfaces, stipules very large foliaceous, cymes terminal 

 with their peduncles glabrous very slender longer than the leaves, bracts ovate, 

 flowers on slender pedicels lax. 



MISHMI hills, in Upper Assam, Griffith. 



Very similar to A. stipulata, but the leaves, which are a foot long, are quite 

 glabrous, the glabrous cyme far more slender, a foot long, with a peduncle 8 in. long 

 and very distant slender branches 3-5 in. long, bearing loose 3-chotomous peduncles 

 with slender pedicels ; the bracts, too, are short and broad. 



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Berry 5-6- celled. 



4. A . Xiawii, Hook. f. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate puberulous 

 beneath, stipules small oblong-lanceolate, cymes terminal and axillary sessile or 

 shortly peduncled pubescent, branches divaricating. Lawia acuminata, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1070, and in Cede. Jaurn. Nat. Hist. vii. 15. 



Mountains of the CARXATIC and TRAVAXCORE, Law, Wight, &c. 



So similar to A. longifolia that I doubt its being other than a form of that plant, 

 with a 5-6-celled ovary. The corolla in the only flowers seen is very shortly tubular, 

 shorter than the subulate-lanceolate calyx-teeth and basal stamens ; no doubt thera 

 are other forms (as in the case of A. longifolia), 



36. fclYRIONEUIlON, Wall. 



Small shrubs with stout branches and spongy bark. Leaves and stipule* 

 large. Floivers white, in large peduncled terminal rarely axillary capitate or 

 corymbose cymes ; bracts rigid, lanceolate. Calyx-tube ovoid ; lobes 5, lanceo- 

 late, exceeding the corolla, rigid, persistent. Corolla small, tubular, throat 

 villous ; lobes short, erect, hispid, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, in the tube of the- 

 corolla, filaments short, subulate ; anthers linear, included. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style short, stigmas 2 linear-oblong coherent ; ovules very numerous, on hemi- 

 spheric placentas. Berry ovoid, white, dry or fleshy, with 2 many-seeded cells. 

 Seeds minute, angled, testa pitted ; embryo minute in fleshy albumen. DISTKII?.. 

 Species 6 or 8, in India beyond the Ganges and Borneo. 



1. UK. nutans, Wall. Cat. 6225; leaves broadly elliptic or obovate 

 abruptly acuminate, nerves 15-20 pair nearly horizontal, heads terminal and 

 axillary shortly peduncled dense-flowered, calvx- teeth subulate-lanceolate rioid,. 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 55. 



ASSAM, Hamilton ; KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-3000 ft., De Silva, &c. ; CHITTAGONG 

 HILLS, C. B. Clarke. 



A small erect shrub, 2-3 ft. ; branches very stout, woody, with thick pale spongy 

 bark. Leaves 5-10 by 3^-5^ in., coriaceous, green when dry, nerves often pubescent 

 beneath; petiole ^-f in.; stipules ^-f in., triangular-lanceolate. Heads 1-1 1 in. 

 diam., tisually globose, rarely loose with the peduncles exposed, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent ; bracteoles and calyx-teeth \ in., subulate, rigid, persistent, longer than tho- 

 tubular corolla, which has short obtuse lobes pubescent on the back. Fruit dry. 



VAR. parviflora ; flowers corymbose smaller. Birma, Griffith. 



2. Itt. Clarkei, IfooJc. f. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, nerves 

 12-15 pair slender very obliquely arched, peduncles simple or branched, calyx- 

 teeth filiform. 



