m.] LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 133 



WKSTKHX PEXINSITA, on the Ghats, alt. 4-8000 ft., from the Concan southwards. 

 TJSKASSEBIM. Wallich, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 2972) ; AVA, Wattich. 



An evergreen tree, 50 ft. Leaves very coriaceous, similar to the ordinary form 

 of C. didymvm, of which this is probably a variety. Korthal's C. itmbellatum, with a 

 slender peduncle, is a very different plant. 



4. C. neilg'herrense, Wight Ic. t. 1064 Us; unarmed, leaves elliptic- 

 ovate obtuse glabrous or setose beneath, flowers 5-merous, pedicels very short 

 axillary fascicled, fruits obovoid or obcordate compressed subdidymous, putamen 

 smooth. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 221 A. ; For. Man. 134, 6 (Plectronia). 



NILGHERRY and PTJLNEY MTS., Wight, G. Thomson. 



An evergreen shrub or tree ; branches opposite, glabrous. Leaves 3i-4 by 1J-2 

 in., rather coriaceous, dark green or black when dry; petiole - in. Flowers shortly 

 pedicellcd, sometimes on a very short peduncle ; pedicels - \ in. Fruit nearly f in. ; 

 pericarp thin. 



VAR. 1 ; leaves coriaceous glabrous, stipules 4-4 in. Nilgherrys, Wight (Kew 

 Distrib. 1424, 1425). 



VAR. 2 ; leaves less coriaceous hirsute beneath or covered with scattered rigid 

 hairs, stipules small. Pulney Mts. (Kew Distrib. 1422, 1426). 



5. C. ficiforme, Hook. /. ; unarmed, glabrous, leaves elliptic obtusely 

 acuminate, flowers 5-merous fascicled on a very short peduncle, fruit very large 

 pyriform stoutly pedicejled, putamen thick woody very deeply sinuously 

 grooved. 



MYSORE ; Shevagherry hills, Wight. 



Branches very stout, and leaves almost black when dry. Leaves 3-4 by l-l in., 

 very thickly coriaceous, narrowed into a very stout petiole ; nerves oblique, slender ; 

 stipules short, broad. Peduncles | in. or less, sometimes branched ; pedicels as long. 

 Fruit 1-1 in., somewhat compressed, narrowed into a pedicel % in. long; putamen re- 

 sembling a small walnut. 



6. C. glabrum, Blume Bijd. 967 ; unarmed, glabrous, leaves large ovate 

 subacute, cymes small compressed shortly pedimcled, flowers 5-merous, fruit 

 large ellipsoid or subovoid with 2 very smooth 3-gonous pyrenes. DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 474; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 35 (Plectronia). Vangueria ? atroviridis, Wall. Cat. 

 8412. Hubiacea, Wall Cat. 8303. 



From TENASSERIM, PEGU, and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, to SINGAPORE and PENANO, 

 Wallich, &c., Maingay (Kew Distrib. 863). DISTRIB. Java. 



A small tree; branches stout, upper compressed. Leaves 4-6 by 1^-3 in., dull 

 green when dry, thinly coriaceous ; nerves few, distant ; petiole ^- in. ; stipules 

 short. Cymes with short spreading branches; flowers small, shortly peduncled. 

 Corolla-tube subglobose, ^ in. ; lobes as long. Stigma mitriform, notched. Fruit f-1 

 in. long ; pyrenes abruptly narrowed and compressed parallel to the ventral face at 

 the top. 



7. C. confertum, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 235; unarmed, 

 glabrous, leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate obtusely caudate-acuminate, flowers 

 fascicled shortly pedicelled 5-merous, fruit small obovoid or obcordate subconi- 

 pressed, putamen woody rugose. C. glomerulatum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat., suppl. 

 685. Memecylon pauciflorum, Wall. Cat. 4114. 



PENANG, SINGAPORE, and MALACCA, Wallich, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2973), Maingay 

 (862, 942). DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago. 



Branches slender. Leaves 3-5 by ^-2 in., dull green when dry, opaque, coriaceous ; 

 nerves slender ; petiole and stipules short. F.lowers small, often unisexual ; buds ob- 

 tuse ; pedicel i- in. Corolla-tube and lobes very short. Style glabrous. Fruit % 



