12G LXXV. RUBIACE5!. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Jacliia. 



Ovary 2-celled ; style capillary, exserted, thickened and hairy in the middle, 

 branches 2 short narrow ; ovules 2 in each cell, inserted on the top of a basilar 

 erect placenta. Fruit dry, 2-celled, cells 1-seeded. Seeds unknown. 



1. J. o*nata, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 321 ; PI. As. 

 Mar. t. 293; Cat. 6284; DC. Prodr. W. 621. 



MALACCA and SINGAPORE, Wallich, &c. 



Branchlets as thick as the middle finger, and all young parts, the petiole, midrib, 

 and inflorescence, rufous-tomentose. Leaves 518 in.; brown when dry, coriaceous, 

 tip rounded, narrowed into the short robust petiole, shining above, hairy beneath or 

 glabrate; stipules short, cylindric, coriaceous, bristles ^-1^ in. long. Cymes in 

 slender peduncles 5-6 in. long ; branches slender, spreading, primary opposite with 

 sheathing stipular bracts ; bracteoles broadly ovate, silky, imbricate. Calyx-lobes 

 minute in flower. ^ in. long, oblong-lanceolate iu fruit. Corolla ^ in., villous. 



H. OUETTARDEJE. 



57. G-UETTARDA, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or 3 in a whorl ; stipules intra-petiolar, 

 deciduous. Flowers secund on the branches of axillary forked ped uncled usually 

 opposite cymes. Calyx-tube short ; limb tubular, toothed, usually deciduous. 

 Corolla-tube long, cylindric, straight or curved, throat naked ; lobes 4-9, oblong, 

 imbricate in bud. Anthers 4-9, subsessile within the tube, linear. Ovary with 

 4-9 elongate cells ; style filiform, stigma subcapitate ; ovules solitary in each 

 cell, pendulous, funicle thickened. Drupe globose or ovoid, endocarp 4-9-celled, 

 and -grooved or -angled, perforated at the top opposite the cells, which are 

 often displaced. Seeds pendulous, testa membranous, albumen scanty or 0; 

 embryo slender. DISTRIB. About 45 species, all but 1 American. 



1. G-. speciosa, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 455; leaves broadly obovate base 

 obtuse or cordate pubescent beneath, corolla silky. Lamk. III. t. 154, f. 2 ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 686 ; Wall Cat. 6219 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 422 ; Wt. Ic. t. 40 ; 

 Sedd. Fl Sylv. Anal. Gen. t. 17, f. 2 ; Kurz For. Fl ii. 37. Cadamba jasmini- 

 flora, Sonner. Voy. Ind. ii. t. 128. Nictanthes hirsuta, Linn. Sp. PI 8. Jas- 

 miiium birsutum, Willd. Sp. PL i. 36 ; Eheede Hort. Mai t. 47, 48. 



Littoral and tidal forests of the WESTERN and EASTERN PENINSULAS, the ANDAMAN 

 ISLANDS, and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Tropical shores of the old and new world. 



A small evergreen polygamous tree ; branchlets stout, short, petioles leaA'es 

 beneath and usually inflorescence pubescent. Leaves. 5-10 by 4-7 in., tip acute 

 obtuse or rounded, green when dry; petiole 1-1^ in.; stipules ovate, pubescent, 

 caducous. Cymes usually from the axils of fallen leaves, long-pecluncled, with spread- 

 ing dichotomous few-flowered branches. Calyx velvety, truncate. Corolla l-l in., 

 softly pubescent; limb 1 in. diam., segments obovate. Drupe woody, globose, ob- 

 scurely lobed. Roxburgh observes that he never met with hermaphrodite flowers. 



58.* ANTIRRHJEA, Comm. 

 59. TXXKONXUS, Humph. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite; stipules ovate-lanceolate, deciduous. 

 Flowers polygamo-dioecious in axillary cymes ; $ cymes with few or many- 

 secuud flowers, <j> 1-3-flowered, pedicels 2-bracteolate. Calyx-tube short, limb 



* This genus is introduced into the Key (p. 20) because a common Sumatraa< 

 species probably occurs in the Malayan Peninsula, though hitherto unrecorded. 



