112 LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Randia. 



not the plants thus numbered in the Linnsean Society's Herbarium, have very much 

 larger flowers, the calyx i-f in. long, with a cylindric tube above the ovary ^ in. long 

 and irregularly cut at the top into 5 triangular teeth ; the corolla-tube 1 in. and lobes 

 in. long: the same, but with shorter calyces, is in Maingay's Herbarium. 



8. It. CS-riffithii, Hook. f. ; erect, glabrous, spines short straight or 0, 

 leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate, stipules subulate, berries globose. 

 Griffithia, sp. 13, 14, Herb. Ind. Or. II. f. 8> T. 



KHASIA MTS., alt, 2-4000 ft. ; Mamloo, Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2800) ; Nurtiuug 

 and Nunklow, J. D. H. $ T. T. 



A small bright green tree ; spines ascending, % in. Leaves green or pale when dry, 

 2-5 by 1-lf in., gradually acuminate, base acute ; petiole - in. Cymes few-flowered, 

 subsessile ; "bracts as in R. malabarica. Flowers not seen. Calyx-tube after flowering, 

 urn-shaped ; limb dilated, minutely toothed, deciduous. Berries size of a pea, areo- 

 late, black. Seeds few, smooth ; albumen even. A very distinct species. 



SECT. IV. G-ynopachys. Shrubs or trees, erect or scaudent, unarmed. 

 Leaves in equal pairs except sometimes those at the flowering nodes. Cymes 

 axillary, leaf-opposed. Calyx-lobes small. Corolla-tube rarely exceeding the 

 lobes. " Berry globose, usually small and soft. 



9. XI. densiflora, Benth. Fl. Ilongk. 155 ; glabrous, unarmed, branches 

 4-angled, leaves elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, cymes leaf-opposed or from leafless 

 nodes, bracts persistent, corolla-tube much, shorter than the lob'es, throat villous, 

 berries globose many-seeded. Webera densiflora, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. eel. 

 Carey $ Wall. ii. 536. W. oppositiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 098 ; Kurz For. Fl. 

 ii. 47. Stylocoryne densiflora, Wall. Cat. 8404 excl. A. : Miq. in Ann. Mm. 

 Lugd. Bat. iv. 128, t. 5 A. S. dimorphophylla, Tcysm. $ Binn. PL Nov. Hort. 

 Bof/or. 4. Cupia densiflora and oppositifolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 394. Gynopachis 

 axilliflora and oblongata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 221. Urophyllum coriaceum, 

 Miq. I. c. Suppl. 542. Ixora Thozetia, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 132. Psychotria 

 sp. Wall. Cat. 8332. Eubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8455, 8456, 8465. 



ASSAM and NAGA hills, Griffith ; CACHAB, Keenan ; TENASSERIM, Wallich ; ANDA- 

 MAN and NICOBAB ISLANDS, Heifer, Kurz; MALACCA, SINGAPORE, and PENANG, Wallich t 

 Griffith, Maingay, &c. ; TBAVANCOBE, Wight, Bcddome. DISTBIB. Malayan Archi- 

 pelago, N. Australia, Hongkong. 



A large shrub or small tree, " sometimes epiphytal " (Keenan) ; branches glabrous 

 or puberulous. Leaves dark brown when dry, 4-8 by 1-3 in., coriaceous, smooth ; 

 petiole -1 in. ; stipules triangular, acuminate. Cymes sessile or shortly peduncled, 

 solitary or opposite from leafless nodes, or solitary and opposite a reduced leaf, or from 

 the axil of a reduced leaf and opposite a developed one, branched from the base ; 

 branches flattened, divaricate, glabrous, puberulous or pubescent; bracts small, tri- 

 angular. Flowers numerous, pedicelled. Calyx \ in. ; teeth minute or 0. Corolla. 

 |-^ in. cliam, ; lobes glabrous or silky externally. Stigma slender, exserted. Berry 

 size of a pea, areolate ; cells 8- or more-seeded. Seeds rugose ; albumen ruminate. 

 The inflorescence is that of Anomanthodia. 



10. XI. Gardner!, TJno. Enurn. 158 (Griffithia) ; erect, glabrous, un- 

 armed, leaves lanceolate acuminate, cymes axillaiy, bracts persistent, corolla- 

 tube much longer than the lobes, throat pubescent or villous, berries longer than 

 broad many-seeded. Griffithia Gardneri, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 38. llaudia 

 Gardneri and laurifolia, Ilooh.f. in Gen. PL ii. 88. 



CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 2-4000 ft., Gardner, &c. 



Very closely allied indeed to 1?. densiflora, and perhaps better considered as tlio 

 Ceylon form of that plant, but the leaves are more strictly lanceolate, the cymes always 

 from the axils of fully formed leaves, and the berry is not globose but evidently, 

 though slightly, elongated ; the flowers are quite glabrous, except at the throat of tLe 

 corolla, which is less villous than in 7?. densiflora. 



