122 LXXV. RUBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Nargedici. 



A slirub or small tree, 5-10 ft., branching from the base, branchlets decussate. 

 Leaves 3-9 by -! in., lanceolate or ovate or linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 

 coriaceous, glabrous or nerves beneath pubescent, brown when dry ; petiole - in. ; 

 stipules triangular, persistent. Flowers % in. long ; bracts 2-3. Kerry size of a pea. 



52. MARGEDIA;77<wfi. 



A glabrous unarmed shrub. Leaves elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate ; stipules 

 triangular, acuminate, persistent. Flowers small, axillary, or supra-axillary, 

 solitary or fascicled. Calyx-tube ovoid; limb short, irregularly 4-5-lobed. 

 Corolla-tube short, cylindric, hairy within, longer than the 4-5 orbicular lobes, 

 which are twisted in bud. Anthers 4-5, sessile, linear, glabrous. Ovary 2- 

 celled ; style short, stigma fusiform 2-cleft or -grooved ; ovules 4 in each cell, 

 pendulous from subapical placentas. Fruit pedicelled, nearly globose, 1-celled, 

 2-few-seeded. Seeds much compressed, testa ?, albumen deeply ruminate ; coty- 

 ledons ovate, radicle slender. 



1. N. macrocarpa, Bedd. FL Sylv. cxxxiv. t. 328. Ilyptiauthera 

 macrocarpa, Thw. JEnum. 157, 421. 



CEYLON; Ambagamowa, and between Galle and Ratnapoora, Walker, Thwaites. 



A shrub 8-10 ft. Leaves 5-8 by 1^-2^ in., rather coriaceous, brown when dry, 

 nerves reticulate ; petiole ^ in. Calyx-tube rounded, apiculate. Corolla-lobes hairy 

 down the middle. Fruit about 1 in. long, pedicelled. I have only imperfect -speci- 

 mens, and have taken the character of the fruit from Thwaites. 



53. SCVPKOSTACZZVS, Thwaites. 



Erect shrubs, branches terete. Leaves short-petioled, linear- or oblong- 

 lanceolate; stipules connate. Flowers small, in axillary or supra-axillary 

 peduncled spikes, bracteate and with connate sheathing bracteoles. Calyx-tube 

 short ; limb produced, persistent, obtusely 4-lobed. Corolla-tube short, throat 

 villous ; lobes 4, short, recurved, twisted in bud. Anthers 4, subsessile, oblong. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; style short, branches short pilose ; ovules about 4 in each cell, 

 pendulous, placentas small on the septum. Berry ovoid or oblong, 1-celled, 

 areolate. Seeds few, pendulous, ovoid, testa coriaceous grooved ; embryo 

 small, in fleshy albumen. DISTRIB. Confined to Ceylon. 



1. S. pedunculatus, Thw. Enum. 157 ; branches scabrous, stipules and 

 bracteoles cuspidate striate hairy internally, corolla hairy externally. 



CEYLON ; at Pasdoon Corle, at no great elevation, Thwaites. 



Leaves 3-6 by 1-1^ in., brown when dry, glabrous or pubescent on the nerves 

 beneath ; petiole short. Peduncles ^-f in. Spike like a small catkin, bracts 5-8, 

 imbricate. Fruit % in. long, ovoid, purplish-black. Seed usually solitary, linear- 

 oblong. 



2. S. coffeoides, Thw. Enum. 157; branches glabrous, stipules and 

 bracts obtuse glabrous internally, corolla glabrous externally. 



CEYLON; Eatnapoora district, at no great elevation, Thwaites. 



Leaves 34 by f-lj in., brown when dry, petiole very short ; stipules ovate, 

 scarious. Peduncles very short or 0. Spikes ovoid, few-flowered. Berry red. Seeds 

 oblong, striate. 



54. DXFX.OSFORA, DC. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees, branches terete. Leaves shortly petioled ; stipules 

 triangular, long pointed or acuminate. Flowers small in axillary fascicles or 

 short cymes, polygamo-dio3cious, white or greenish ; bracts free or connate in a 



