Morinda.] LXXV. EUBIACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 157 



tapering into the petiole, peduncles long- or short solitary leaf-opposed rarely 2-3- 

 nate and terminal, drupes free. Wall. Cat. 8420; DC. Prodr. iv. 447; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 61. M. squarrosa, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 535; DC. I. c, 

 Morinda sp., Wall. Cat. 8423 in part, 8420, 8427, and Psychotria (? Moriuda), 

 8365. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, wild and cultivated, from Nip.il eastwards, ascending to 6000 

 ft. in Sikkim. ASSAM and KHASIA MTS., ascending to 4000 ft. CHITTAGOXG and 

 TENASSERIM. 



An erect bush or small tree. Leaves often a foot long, narrowed into a petiole 

 sometimes 1^ in., glabrous or puberulous on the nerves beneath; stipules acute or ob- 

 tuse, entire or 2-fid. Flowers very numerous, white, fragrant. Corolla-tube | in., 

 glabrous ; lobes globose in bud. Fruit 1 in. diam. or less ; drupes turbinate, black. 

 Foliage often like that of M. citrifolia. 



4. BZ. persicaefolia, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 535 ; glabrous or 

 scaberulous, leaves obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate or linear caudate-acumi- 

 nate narrowed into the petiole, peduncles short solitary leaf-opposed, drupes 

 coalescent. DC. Prodr. iv. 447; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 61. " M. lanceolata, Wall. 

 Cat. 8435. 



CHITTAGONG and PEGU, Hamilton, M'Clelland. BIRMA, Wallich. TEKASSEIUM, in 

 savannah forests, Kurz. SINGAPORE, Maingay. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Siam. 



A small low diffuse shrub ; branches flexuous. Leaves 2-6 in., very variable in 

 breadth, tapering into the slender petiole or rarely rounded at the base ; stipules subu- 

 late. Flowers rather small, white. Corolla funnel-shaped, quite glabrous. Fruit the 

 size of a cherry, smooth. Leaves in Kangoon specimens very narrow 5 by ^ in. 



* Corolla 4- rarely 5-merom ; tube short, not % in. 



5. M. umbellata, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 449; leaves membranous from 

 broadly obovate to elliptic- or linear-lanceolate obtuse acute or caudate-acumi- 

 nate glabrous pubescent or tonientose beneath, nerves very distinct, heads in 

 terminal sessile umbels, drupes connate. W. $ A. Prodr. 420; Wall. Cat. 

 8431 ; Kurz Foi: Fl. ii. 62. M. scandens, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 548; DC. Prodr. 

 iv.449. M. tetrandra, Jack in Mai. Misc. \. 13; Wall. Cat. 8432; Ro.i-b. Fl. 

 Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 203; DC. 1. c. M. Padavara, Juss. Morinda, Wall. 

 Cat. 8429.meede Hort. Mai. vii. t. 27. 



Hills of EASTERN BENGAL and the MALAY PENINSULA, from the Khasia Mts., 

 ascending to 4000 ft. to Penang and Singapore. WESTERN PENINSULA ; South Concan, 

 Xilgherry, and Travancore mts. CEYLON, ascending to 4000 ft. DISTRIB. Malay 

 Archipelago, China, Japan, N. Australia. 



A diffuse shrub, with sometimes tomcntosc climbing branches. Leaves extremely 

 variable, rarely 5 in., sometimes obcuneate with a retuse apex, usually elliptic-lanceo- 

 late and quite glabrous, or scaberulous, or sometimes even softly tomento.se beneath 

 in both eastern and western specimens, narrowed into the slender petiole ; stipules 

 acute, connate. Peduncles 5-10, ^-lh in., glabrous or tomentose. Corolla almost 

 rotate, throat bearded. Fruit size of a largo pea or larger, irregularly lobed. Some 

 Nilgherry Mt. specimens have the leaves not shining. A Singapore specimen from 

 Dr. Anderson has leaves more coriaceous, softly villous beneath, with the nerves ob- 

 .scure on the upper surface, thus approaching M. rigida, but the nerves are distinct 

 beneath, and the heads are those of M. umbellata. 



6. HZ. rigi$.SifMiq. FL Ind. Bat. ii. 24G ; leaves very coriaceous elliptic 

 abruptly obtusely acuminate glossy above brown and sometimes puberulous be- 

 neath, nerves obscure on both suriaces, heads axillary solitary or 2-4-nate aud 

 terminal subsessile, drupes connate. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. DISTBIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



Branches cylindric, polished, glabrous. Leaves very uniform, 3-1 by H-'2 in., dark 



