Myrionciii'on.'] LXXV. RUBIACEJG. (J. D. Hooker.) 9? 



CHITTAGOXG, J. D. H. T. T., C. B. Clarke. 



Very near M. nutans, if not a variety of it ; tlie leaves are much narrower, and 

 longer petioled with fewer and much less prominent obliquely arching nerves, and 

 the bracteoles and calyx-teeth are much more slender and not rigid. 



3. BK. ang ustifolium, Hook. f. ; leaves narrowly elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute, nerves 12-15 pair slender very obliquely arched, bracteoles and calyx- 

 teeth subulate-lanceolate rigid. 



BIRMA ; hills west of the Hookhoom valley, Griffith. 



This again is very near M. nutans, differing in the form of its leaves and their 

 nervation, but agreeing in the bracteoles and calyx-teoth. 



37. ATJLACODISCUS, Hook. f. 



A small glabrous tree, branches thick. Leaves coriaceous; stipules tri- 

 angular, long-acuminate. Flowers small, polygamous, in short axillary panicled 

 pedimcled cymes, ebracteate. Calyx-tube broadly hemispheric; limb short, 

 truncate. Corolla coriaceous, rotate, 8-16-partite, throat hairy ; segments tri- 

 angular, valvate in bud with incurved tips, margins webbed. Stamens 8 or 1C, 

 alternate ones irregularly imperfect, filaments flexuous; anthers minute, 

 didymous. Disk large, prominent, 8-16-lobed, lobes opposite the petals witli 

 hooked tips. Ovary 6-16-celled ; style very short, thick, stigma large peltate 

 fleshy, 6-16-lobed ; ovules numerous, on prominent placentas in the inner angles 

 of the cells. Eerr-y small, globose, areolate, usually 8- (6-1 6-) celled, main-- 

 seeded. Seeds minute, subglobose, testa thick crustaceous pitted; embryo 

 pyriform, in fleshy and oily albumen. 



1. A. premnoides, Hook. f. in Gen. PI. ii. 71. Axanthes emieandra, 

 Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 144. 



MALAY PENINSULA, from Tenasserim or the Andaman Islands, Heifer (Kcw 

 Distrib. 2938), to MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 938). 



Branches stout, obtusely 4-angled. Leaves 5-9 by lg-2^ in., linear-oblong, acute, 

 pale brown when dry, nerves numerous ; petiole ^-^ in. ; stipules \-% in. Cymes 

 1-1^ in. diam., corymbose, trichotomous, pubescent; peduncles |-1 in., suberect; 

 bracts leafy. Flowers ^ in. diam. Berry % in. diam., globose. 



38. UHOFHYLLUBX, Wall. 



Trees or bushes with slender terete branches. Floivers (sometimes uni- 

 sexual) small, in axillary sessile or peduncled heads cymes or corymbs, pedicels 

 short bracteolate at the base. Calyx-tube short ; limb cup-shaped, 6- (4-7-) 

 toothed, persistent. Corolla coriaceous, tube short, throat villous; lobes 5 

 (4-7) triangular, valvate in bud. Stamens 5 (4-7) on the throat of the corolla, 

 filaments short; anthers linear, acute. Ovary 5- (4-7-) celled; style short, 

 often swollen at the base, stigma various ; ovules numerous, placentas" attached 

 to the inner angles of the cells. Berry small, 4-5-celled, many-seeded. Seeds 

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

 DISTRIB. Species about 35, tropical Asiatic and African, and 1 Japanese. 



* Branches and leaves beneath glabrous. (See also Sp. 6, 7, and 8.) 



1. 17. ellipticum, Thw. JEnum. 419; quite glabrous, leaves 6-9 in. 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate, stipules long, cymes sessile dense-fld., flowers uni- 

 sexual glabrous without, petals bearded within. Axanthes elliptica, Wight in* 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 147, t. 2, f. 3 ; Ic. t. 1164; Thw. I. c. 139. 



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