152 LXXY. EUBIACEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pavettn-. 



6. P. naucleiflora, Jl'all. Cat. 6171 ; densely pubescent, greenish when 

 dry, leaves elliptic caudate-acuminate softly tomentose beneath, cymes open 

 terminating long axillary naked branches with a pair of leaves at the top,, 

 peduncles and pedicels crowded hirsute with dense white spreading hairs, calyx- 

 teeth subulate, corolla hairy or glabrous, tube f in. twice as long as the lobes. 

 G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 575. Ixora naucleiflora, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 19. 



BHOTAN; banks of the Kollery, alt. 2500 ft., Griffith. SILHET and PENANG, 

 Wattich. TESTASSERIM, Heifer, Kurz. 



A shrub or tree. Leaves 4-6 by 1-2 in., with short scattered hairs above, petiole 

 ^1 iu. Cymes sessile, 2-3 in. diam.; flowers very many, white, much like those of 

 P. indica, var. tomcntosa, of which it is perhaps only a form. Fruit hispid. 



** Calyx-teeth elongate, equalling or longer than the ovary. 



7. P. involucrata, Thw. Enum. 156; glabrous, almost black when; 

 dry, leaves elliptic obovate oblong or oblanceolate obtuse or subacute, cymes 

 terminating axillary naked branches sessile capitate surrounded at the base by 

 broad large sheathing stipuk.r bracts, calyx-teeth equalling or longer than the 

 ovary, corolla-lobes linear exceeding the tube, throat with a ring of hairs. 

 JBed'd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 100; Fl. Sylv. For. Man. 134/7. 



CEYLON; central province, alt. 5-7000 ft., Walker, &c. 



A large shrub; branches robust, bark yellowish. Leaves 2-3 by 1-1^ in., thinly 

 coriaceous, brown beneath when dry, narrowed into the short petiole. Cymes 1 in. 

 diam., globose or compressed ; branches 2-4 in., terminated usually by a pair of leaves ; 

 stipular bracts pale brown, often cuspidate; flowers sessile, white, densely crowded. 

 Calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, pubescent within. Corolla-tube \ in., campanu- 

 late, lobes acuminate. Style stout ; stigma hardly thickened. Fruit smooth. Seeds 

 orbicular, ventrally deeply hollowed. This has the black look and short flowers of a 

 Webera. 



8. P. Brunonis, Wall. Cat. 6172; softly tomentose, greenish when dry, . 

 leaves obovate or oblanceolate obtuse or acute softly hirsute beneath, cymes tei> 

 ininal sessile contracted densely tomentose, branches 3 very stout short with a 

 fastigate cluster of flowers, stipular bracts large, calyx-teeth lanceolate recurved, 

 corolla glabrous, tube ^ in. twice as long as the lobes, stigma narrowly clavate. 



NILGHERRY HILLS, Noton, Wight, G. Thomson. 



This resembles P. indica, var. tomentosa, but the cymes are dense with short stout 

 main branches, the calyx-teeth are entirely different, and the flowers are smaller. 

 One of Wallich's specimens was received from Wight, but I find none in the Herba- 

 rium of the latter botanist, where the specimen named Brunonis has the truncate 

 calyx and loose cyme of P. indica, var. tomcntosa. 



9. P. Wight!!, lie ok. f. ; nearly glabrous, pale greenish when dry, leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate acute puberulojis beneath with large oblong thickened glands, . 

 cymes terminating slender axillary naked branches open much divided glabrate,. 

 flowers long-pedicelled, calyx-tee'th slender lanceolate acuminate longer than 

 the ovary, corolla glabrous, tube in. slender 2-3 times as long as the narrow 

 acute lobes. 



NlLGHERRY HlLLS, Wight. 



This, but for the very long slender teeth of the calyx, would be put with P. indica. 

 The slender naked axillary flowering branches are compressed, but not so much as inr 

 P. invnlucrata, and are 2-3 in. long ; sometimes they are leafless at the summit, when 

 the inflorescence appears peduncled and axillary. The calyx-teeth are erect and twice 

 as long as the puberulous ovary, and the styles are very slender and glabrous. I have 

 seen only one specimen. 



10. P. Crleniei, Thw. mss. ; glabrous or velvety, leaves elliptic-lanceolate 

 or broadly elliptic obtuse or acute, cymes terminating axillary slender leafless- 



