158 LXXV. RUBiACEjE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Morinda.. 



blackish-brown and highly polished above, rusty-brown and very opaque beneath, nar- 

 rowed into a slender petiole ; stipules connate, ovate. Peduncles stout, glabrous or 

 pubescent. Corolla-tube ^ in., puberulous. Heads 1 in. diam. and under, with few 

 very large pyrenes. 



7. Z. villosa, Hook. f. ; "branches and leaves beneath hirsute, leaves 

 elliptic-obovate or -lanceolate acuminate opaque and pubescent above, nerves 

 distinct, peduncles terminal umbellate long or short ; drupes confluent. Morinda ? 

 Wall. Cat. 8425. 



KHASIA MTS., De Silva ; at the Bor Panee river, J. D. H. $ T. T. 



A climbing shrub. Leaves greenish when dry, 3-4 by l- If in., membranous ; 

 nerves numerous; petiole very short; stipules connate with subulate points. Peduncles 

 i-2 in., stout or slender, villous. Heads in flower small. Corolla small, pubescent. 

 Fruit 1 in., pale red. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



M. WALLICHII, Kurz, For. Fl. 61 ; a small quite glabrous evergreen tree?, leaves 

 3-5 in. oblong-lanceolate to linear acuminate at both ends pale beneath, petiole ^-1^ 

 in., flowers rather small white in small heads forming a terminal glabrous stiff> 

 peduncled small cyme, calyx truncate, the tube (in bud) only ^ in. long, lobes as long 

 oblong-linear rather blunt. Tenasserim, Kurz. Probably in the above description, 

 copied from Kurz, the tube alluded to and lobes are those of the corolla, which word 

 has been omitted accidentally. 



70. RENNEXiliZA, Korthals. 



Characters of Morinda, but the terminal heads few-flowered and paniculate,, 

 ovules peltate, and seeds orbicular thin and much dorsally compressed. Dis- 

 TRIE. Species 2 or 3, Malayan. 



1. XL. speciosa, Hook. f. in Gen. Plant, ii. 118; quite glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate acuminate. Morinda speciosa, Wall. Cat. 8436 ; Kurz For. 

 FL ii. 62. 



TENASSERIM ; Cheppedong hills, Wallich. MALACCA, Griffith, Main gay. 



A stout evergreen climbing shrub. Leaves 6-9 by 2-2| in., brown or pale green 

 when dry, thinly coriaceous, tapering into a petiole -|-1 in. ; stipules free or connate, 

 short. Inflorescence 13 in., erect, quite glabrous ; peduncle rachis and short branches 

 very stout; heads pedicelled, 3-6-flowered. Calyx-limb short, cupular, truncate. 

 Corolla-tube |-| in. ; limb glabrous within, lobes linear-oblong. Fruit \ in. diam., 

 globose. 



71. X> A BEN ACANTHUS, Gaertn. 



A small rigid much-branched shrub covered with slender spines. Leaves 

 small, subsessile, ovate, acuminate ; stipules minute, 3-cuspidate. Flowers 

 small, white, axillary, solitary or in pairs, pedicels short, bracteolate. Calyx- 

 tube obovoid ; limb 4-5-tid, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, throat villous ; 

 lobes 4-5, triangular-ovate, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-5, on the throat of the 

 corolla ; filaments short, anthers with a broad connective, exserted. Ovary 2-4- 

 celled; style filiform, stigma 2 -4-cleft; ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous by a 

 broad base from above the middle of the septum. Drupe small, globose, with 

 1-4 hard plano-convex pyreues. Seeds peltate, testa thin, albumen horny; 

 embryo minute, radicle inferior. DISTRIB. Species 1 or 2, East Bengal, China, 

 and Japan. 



1. 1>. indicus, Gaertn.f. Fruct. iii. 18, t. 182; DC. Prodr. iv. 473. 

 MISHMI HILLS (Upper Assam), Griffith. DISTRIB. Japan. 



Branches slender ; spines straight, needle-like. Leaves in. long in Griffith's 

 specimens, often longer in Japanese ; nerves obscure. Corolla-tube \ in., segments 



