178 LXXV. RUBIACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) \_GeopTiila. 



Drupe fleshy, pyrenes 2, plano-convex. Seeds plano-convex, not grooved ven- 

 trally; embryo basal, minute, radicle inferior. DISTKIB. Species 8 or 10 

 tropical. 



1. Cr. reniformis, Don Prodr. 136; pubescent, leaves orbicular deeply 

 cordate, umbels 1-3-flowered peduncled. DC. Prodr. iv. 537 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 

 433; Wt. Ic. t. 54; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 111. G. diversifolia, DC. I c. ; 

 Watt. Cat. 8325. Psychotria herbacea, Linn. ; Roxl. Fl. Ind. i. 533. Cephaelis 

 herbacea, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 140. Rheede Hort. Mai x. t. 21. 



SILHET and KHASIA HILLS, Roxburgh, De Silva. TENASSERIM and ANDAMAN 

 ISLANDS, Griffith, Kurz. Western Peninsula ; or the Grhats from the Concan south- 

 wards. CEYLON, common. DISTBIB. Malay Archipelago, S. China, Polynesia, Tropical 

 Africa and America. 



Stems a foot or less long. Leaves f-1^ in. diam., more or less pubescent ; petiole 

 1-3 in. ; stipules ovate, obtuse. Peduncle %-!$ in. ; bracts subulate-lanceolate. 

 Calyx-teeth herbaceous, persistent. Corolla ^-% in., glabrous. Fruit small, globose, 

 purple. 



78. CEPHAELIS, Swartz. 



Characters of Psychotria, but flowers in involucrate heads, ovary rarely 3-4- 

 celled. Albumen equable. DISTRIB. Species 70, all tropical. 



The cultivation of Ipecacuanha (Ceph&lis Ipecacuanha, Rich.), an American plant, 

 has been introduced into India, but with hitherto scanty success. 



l.C. G-riffithii, Hook. f. ; leaves long-petiole^ oblanceolate acuminate, 

 nerves 16-20 pair glabrous beneath, stipules 1 in. diam., heads sessile, bracts 

 orbicular connate. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3032), Maingay (928). 



Branches (or stem?) as thick as the little finger. Leaves 12-16 by 3-5 in., 

 brownish when dry, narrowed into a petiole often 3 in. long, coriaceous ; stipules 

 very coriaceous, orbicular, upper half withered and discoloured. Head 1-2 in. diam. ; 

 bracts like the stipules. Calyx-teeth obtuse. Corolla in., glabrous, throat villous. 

 Fruit ^ in. long, obovoid-oblong, 4-angled, crowned by the tubular calyx-limb ; 

 pyrenes with a broad dorsal rib, ventrally concave. Seed very thin, pyrene dorsally 

 ridged. The more numerous nerves and sessile large heads distinguish this from 

 the closely allied Malayan C. stipulacea, Bl. 



2. C. cuneata, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 248 ^ leaves very nar- 

 rowly oblanceolate acuminate, nerves quite glabrous beneath, stipules in. 

 diam., heads stoutly peduncled, bracts connate. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 311. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3085), Maingay (929). 



Stem simple, as thick as a goose-quill or less. Leaves 6-12 by |-1| in., mem- 

 branous, greenish when dry, narrowed into very long petioles ; nerves very variable 

 in number, ascending ; stipules small, much withered and discoloured. Heads % in. 

 diam.; peduncle stout, simple, 2-4 in.; bracts connate in a coriaceous cup; flowers 

 smaller and fewer than in C. Griffithii. Calyx-teeth rounded. Fruit ^- in. long, 

 almost globose, very fleshy, calyx-limb inconspicuous ; pyrenes and seeds as in G. 

 Griffithii. 



79, ZiASXANTKUS, Jack. 



Shrubs, often foetid ; branches terete, compressed at the nodes. Leaves 

 opposite, distichous, usually caudate-acuminate with arching nerves and close- 

 set transverse veins, which are simple or forked or branched and reticulate : 

 stipules interpetiolar, broad, rarely narrow. Flowers small, in axillary rarely 

 peduncled often bracteate clusters, cymes or heads. Calyx-tube short; limb 



