LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 145 



Shrubby. Leaves 5-8 by 2-3 in., coriaceous, pale when dry, variable, base always 

 cuncate or narrowed into the petiole, sometimes puberulous beneath ; stipules \-\ in. 

 Cymes and white flowers very much as in 7. villosa, but sessile or shortly pedicelled, 

 puberulous or glabrate, and the flowers shorter and corolla-lobes not notched. 

 Filaments slender. Fruit the size of a pea, red. Seeds ventrally concave with' no 

 median ridge (in Roxburgh's drawing). A very large specimen from Rangoon has 

 elliptic leaves 9 by 3^ in. Wight and Arnott describe the calyx-teeth as twice th 

 length of the ovary, which is not the case. Kurz enumerates 3 varieties : 1. 7?0.v- 

 burghii, with glabrous leaves and sessile or short^pednncled cymes; 2. puberula,Tviih 

 leaves puberulous beneath and larger peduncled cymes ; 3. piimita, 1-3 ft., flowers 

 often pale rose, cymes small short more slender. 



Branches glabrous. Cymes articulate at the ramifications, corymbiform, 

 rarely brachiate. 



24. I. coccinea, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl Ind. \. 375 : glabrous, leaves sessile 

 or subsessile shortly oblong, base rounded or cordate .rarely cimeate, tip rounded 

 or apiculate, cymes sessile corymbiform dense-flo-wei-ecl, calyx-teeth minute 

 snorter than the ovary, corolla-tube 1-lf in., lobes broad acute, mouth naked. 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 427 ; Wight Ic. t. 153 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 112 ; Brqmf. 



For. FL 275; Kurz For. 'FL ii L 26. I. granditiora, JBr. in &t. Rc</. t. 1^4 ; 



k. Bot. Misc. iii., Suppl. t. 35. I. pro jinqjia,' 

 Br. in Wall. Cat. 6119. " I. incarnata, DC. 1. c. ? 1. obovata, Hcyne ia tioih 



DC. Prodr. iv. 486 ; Wight in Hook. 



Nov. Sp. 90. I. Bandhuca, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10 ; Fl. Ind. i. 376 ; Wall. Cat. 

 <>120; DC. I.e.; Bot. Reg.t. 513; Wight Ic. t. 149. Pavetta coccinea and 

 P. incarnata, Blume Bijd. 950. P. Bandhuca, Miq..Fl Ind. Bat. ii. 2G6. 

 Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 12 ; Burm. Fl. Zeylt. 57. 



Cultivated throughout India, a native of the WESTERN PENINSULA, in the Concan, 

 c., Dalzell 8f Gibson. CHITTAGONG, apparently indigenous, J. D. H.Q 71 7". Culti- 

 vated in AVA, MARTABAN, and BURMA, Kurz. CEYLON ; common, ascending to 2000 

 ft., Thwaites. 



A branching shrub ; branches strict, rather stout. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., coria- 

 ceous, pale when dry; nerves 8-10 pair, distinct; stipules with rigid cusps. Cymes 

 rarely shortly peduncled ; ramifications -vu-ry short, articulate ; bracts and bracteolcs 

 subulate ; flowers scarlet, sessile or very shortly petioled. Filaments long and anthers 

 it for the genus. Stigma with short revolute arms. Fruit sometimes fleshy, size 

 i, crowned by the calyx-teeth. Seed very concave ventrally. Roxburgh dis- 

 .nishes /. Jiandhuca from 1. coccinea by being more branched, with stem-clasping 

 isfe leaves and ovate obtuse corolla-lobes. These characters should be Booked to 

 India: tjiey point to intermediates between I. coccinea and stricta. Ho further 

 : of coccincu as plano-convex. A yellow flowering variety is said to be 

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' <*> Brn.ic/tL-* ,, 7p 07 k HorL Bern/. 10; Fl Ind. i. 379; glabrous, leaves 



<* . to j> .' mfroyorm. obovate-oblong obtuse or aubacute base cuiieate, 



~. ** 32. T. undulata, " or peduncled, calyx-teeth shorter than the ovary 

 ^5 f ro os ptibe scent branc^*^ $-1 i n - lobes rounded, mouth naked. DC. Prodr. 

 - ^^V-'^emar--!]]-^./-. 427; Wu;h! Ic. t. 184; Kurz For. Fl ii. 26; Wall 



Cat. 6123. *f.' j .ecinea, lint. Muj. 100.- I. alba, Ro.cb. II cc.\ Wight Ic. t. 



707 ; Wdl. Cat. 6122. I. bland a,' Kcr in Bot. Reg. t. 100; DC. I c. 487. I, 



jneaitoata, Ro f vb. : D. C. I c. 4*6.- I. crocata, Lindl in Bot. Reg. t. 782; DC. 



I f. 486. I. rosea, Wall Cat. 0124 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2428 ; not of 'Wall in Ro.ib. 

 , Fl. Ind, 



( 1 altivated in various parts of India, but a native of the Moluccas and China, 

 according to Roxburgh. Kurz regards it as indigenous in RANGOON and Upper 

 TENASSKRIM. 



There is fittle to distinguish this from 7. coccinea but the smaller corolla-lobes 

 and form of the leaves. Roxburgh figures the seeds as plano-convex, a char.ioter I 

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