156 LXXV. EUBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Morinda;* 



VAR. 1. citri folia proper; calyx-limb without a foliaceous lobe. M. citrifolia, Linn. ; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 541 ; Hunter in As. Res. iv. 35 ; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 533 ; 

 W. ^ A. Prodr. 419; Wall. Cat. 8418; Dale. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 114; Brand. For. FL 

 277 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 60, var. 1 ; Ehcede Hort. Mai. i. t. 52 ; Gaertn. Fruct. i. t. 29. 

 Truly wild in Malacca, Maine) ay. 



VAR. 2. bracteata ; stipules more acute, calyx-limb often with a lanceolate or spa- 

 thulate white foliaceous lobe sometimes 3 in. long. M. bracteata, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 

 15; Fl. Ind. i. 544; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 534; DC. Prodr. iv. 447; W. $ 

 A. Prodr. 419; Wight 111. t. 126; Wall. Cat. 8419; Thw. Enum. 144; Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 114 ; Brand. For. Fl. 277. Wild and cultivated in various parts of India 

 and Ceylon. Not unfrequent in the forests of the Andamans, Kurz, who ascribes more 

 acute stipules to this form and smaller fruit. 



VAR. 3. elliptica ; leaves 6-8 in. elliptic polished acuminate, nerves strong on both 

 surfaces. Tavoy, Gomes, Wall. Cat. 8434. Concan, Stocks. Malacca, Griffith. This 

 looks intermediate between angustifolia and citrifolia in foliage. The drupes are par- 

 tially free in the Tavoy specimen. 



2. Itt. tinctoria, Eoxb. Hort. Seng. 15 ; Fl. Ind. i. 543 ; leaves usually 

 4-8 in. broadly or narrowly elliptic acute at both ends, base very rarely cordate 

 glabrous or pubescent or toruentose beneath or on both surfaces not shining, 

 peduncles solitary or 2-nate leaf-opposed rarely terminal and panicled, flowers 

 5-merous ; fruit of many drupes coalescent into a globose or ovoid fleshy head 1 

 in. diam. or less. 



Throughout India from the Sutlej eastwards, and southwards to Ceylon and 

 Malacca. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago. 



Considered by many Indian botanists to be the wild form of M. citrifolia ; but if 

 M. bracteata is truly wild in India, as is asserted on good authority, it may be safer 

 to regard tinctoria as a separate plant, characterised by its smaller foliage, which is 

 never shining. The following are prevalent forms, but are neither constant nor always 

 recognisable (in a dried state at any rate) from one another and from M. citrifolia. 



VAR. 1 . tinctoria proper ; often shrubby, leaves glabrous rarely pubescent beneath^ 

 peduncles leaf-opposed. M. tinctoria, Roxb. 1. c. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 447 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 

 419; Brand. For. Fl. 277. M. aspera, W. $ A. Prodr. 420. M. Coreia and nodosa, 

 Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 537 ; DC. 1. c. 448. M. leiantlia, Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. 1872, ii. 313; For. Fl. ii. 59, M. citrifolia, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 220. M. Zollin- 

 geriana and Teysmanniana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 243, 244. Morinda, Wall. Cat. 

 8430. 



VAR. 2. tomentosa ; leaves tomentose on both surfaces, peduncles leaf-opposed. M. 

 tomentosa, Heyne in Both Nov. Sp. 147 ; DC. I. c. 448 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 420 ; Dalz. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 114 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 60. M. Naudia and Chacuca, Ham. in Trans* 

 Linn. Soc. xiii. 536. M. stenophylla, Spr. ; DC. and W. $ A. II. cc. M. angustifolia, 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 147, not of Eoxb. 



VAR. 3. multiflora ; leaves glabrous or pubescent, peduncles axillary and terminal 

 simple and paniculate. M. multiflora, Roxb. Hort. Bcng. 15; Fl. Ind. i. 546; DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 447 ; Brand. For. Fl. 227. 



VAR. 4. aspera ; leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate and branches 

 uniformly seabed, stipules broad reflexed cleft to the base into two oblong obtuse 

 lobes, peduncles leaf-opposed or axillary slender scabrid, corolla pubescent. M. aspera, 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 420. Morinda, Wall.. Cat. 8429, ex Herb. Wight. 



FORMA exserta. M. exserta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 15 ; Fl. Ind. \. 545 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 447 ; Wall. Cat. 8421 ; W. <?- A. Prodr. 419 ; Brand. For. Fl. 276 ; Thw. Enum. 145* 

 and 436 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 59. Under Koxburgh's descriptions and the above cita- 

 tions are included various forms of Morinda with exserted anthers, of which some 

 are referable to citrifolia and others to the varieties of tinctoria ; and as the character 

 of the anthers is sexual, this form must be abandoned even as a variety, as Thwaites 

 has pointed out. 



* 3. Itt. angustifolia, Eoxb. Hort. Beny. 15; Cor. PL t. 237; FL Ind. 

 i. 547 ; glabrous, leaves .large elliptic or obovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate- 



