Damnacanthus.'] i.xxv. nuwACE-ffi. (J. D. Hooker.) 159 4 



half as long. Fruit % in. diam. Griffith's is the only Indian specimen I have seen,, 

 and no further habitat is given than Mishmi. Considering the confusion in which 

 Griffith's collections were when received at Kew, the locality may be doubtful, and 

 the specimen a Garden one : it is an extensively cultivated plant, but being Chinese, 

 may be indigenous in Mishmi. 



72. PXIXSXKATOIKERXS, Thwaites. 



Shrubs with compressed 4-gonous branches. Leaves opposite ; stipules 1-2- 

 cuspidate. Flowers unisexual, in axillary and terminal fascicles, white. Calyx- 

 tube of $ small, turbinate ; of $ larger, cupular, persistent. Corolla-tube 

 cylindric, throat glabrous ; lobes 4-5 spreading, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-5,. 

 in the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; anthers linear, included. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style filiform, branches 2 free or united ; ovules 1 attached above the middle 

 of the septum in each cell. Berry small, 1-2-celled, 1-2-seeded. Seeds sub- 

 globose, peltate, ventrally excavated, testa membranous ; embryo small, coty- 

 ledon reniform, radicle 'inferior. DISTRIB. 2-3 species, tropical Indian and 

 Malayan. 



1. P. albidifiora, Tine, in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 268, t. vii. ; Enum. 

 154, 421 ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate shining. Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. 

 t. 93 ; and Anal. Gen. i. 29, f. 4. Coffea tetrandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 538 ;. 

 Wall Cat. 6242; DC. Prodr. iv. 499; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 28. Rubiee, Wall 

 Cat. 8470. 



KHASIA MTS., ascending to 4000 ft., and southwards to MALACCA. CEYLON, 

 ascending to 4000 ft. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago. 



An evergreen tree or shrub ; branches slender, 4-gonous ; bark yellow, polished. 

 Leaves pale when dry, 3-5 by 1-1 in., coriaceous; nerves slender; petiole -1 in.; 

 stipules triangular, acuminate. Flowers subumbellately fascicled, rarely in peduncled 

 axillary umbels, pedicels filiform, ^-1 in., ebracteolate. Calyx-limb truncate. Corolla 

 white, tube f-1 in. ; lobes linear-oblong. Fruit globose, % 'in. diam. 



2. P. Ferguson!!, Thw. mss. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv., For. Man. 134/10 ; very 

 similar to P. albidifiora, but leaves rather larger, pedicels shorter all terminal 

 and more numerous and the corolla much, less fleshy. 



CEYLOX, near Colombo. 



The above is all the information I have as to this species, except an observation 

 by Beddome, that " the imbrication of the corolla-lobes is easily seen in this species." 

 In reference to this point, Beddome also says in the generic character, " Corolla-lobes 

 subimbricate (or valvate ?)." Finding the corolla to be strictly valvate in P. albidi- 

 fora, as Thwaites first described it, I suspect P. Fergusonii may not be congeneric. 



73. CCEXiOSFEXU&TJaX, Blumc. 



Scandent glabrous trees or shrubs ; branchlets compressed. Leaves opposite ;-. 

 stipules connate, rarely free. Flowers in terminal cymose thyrsoid or panicled 

 cymes, white or yellowish, often scented. Calyx-tube short ; limb short, per- 

 sistent. Corolla " coriaceous, funnel- or salver-shaped ; lobes 4-5, narrow, 

 spreading or reflexed, valvate. Stamens 4-5, on the throat of the corolla, 

 filaments filiform; anthers versatile, exserted, slender. Ovary 2 or 4-celledj 

 style filiform, branches 2 short or long ; ovules 1 in the 4-celled, geminate in 

 the 2-celled ovaries, pendulous. Drupe globose, with 2-4 pyrenes. Seeds erect. 

 DISTRIB. Species 4-5, Malayan and Australian. 



1. C. scandens, Blumc Bijd. 994; leaves broadly elliptic acuminate 

 coriaceous. DC. Prodr. iv. 468. 



