Lasianthus."] LXXT. KUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 179 



short or long, 3-7-toothed, rarely truncate, persistent. Corolla funnel- or 

 salver-shaped, throat villous ; lobes 3-7, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-6 on the 

 corolla-throat, filaments short; anthers linear or oblong, often apiculate, in- 

 cluded. Ovary 4-9-celled; style short or long, glabrous or hairy, arms or 

 stigmas 3-9 short obtuse; ovules 1 linear basal erect in each cell. Drupe 

 small, pyrenes 3-9, 3-quetrous and 1-seeded. Seeds narrow, testa membranous ; 

 embryo terete, radicle slender inferior. DISTKIB. Species about 80 tropical 

 Asiatic, with single species in Japan, Australia, W. Africa, and Cuba. 



A very difficult genus to describe, though the nervation and venation of the leaves 

 afford very good characters. The foliage closely resembles that of Urophyllum. 



SECT. T. Stipulares. Cymes sessile, embraced by the large coriaceous 

 stipules. 



1. Ii. Griffith!!, Wight in Cede. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 505; robust, leaves 

 large elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate narrowed into a very short petiole 

 pubescent beneath, nerves 18-20 pair, veins reticulate, clusters of flowers large 

 capitate very dense villous involucrate by the very large broad stipules, bracts 

 densely filiform villous equalling the flowers. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2935). 



Branches as thick as a swan's-quill, black when dry, glabrous. Leaves 10-12 

 by 3-3ij in., brown when dry, coriaceous, glabrous above, rusty beneath; nerves 

 16-20 pair; petiole very short and stout; stipules f in. diam., broadly triangular, 

 with rounded angles, acute or obtuse, very coriaceous and persistent, glabrous. Heads 

 densely villous; bracts close-packed, filiform, equalling the flowers. Calyx-limb 

 large, glabrous, funnel-shaped, about 7-cleft, teeth villous. Corolla-tube glabrous ; 

 limb villous, 7-cleft. Drupe small, nearly globose, about in. diam., glabrous ; 

 pyrenes about 7. 



2. Xi. stipularis, Blume Bijd. 997 ; slender, glabrous except the bracts, 

 leaves subsessile oblanceolate-oblong caudate-acuminate, nerves 9-10 pair, veins 

 faint sparingly branched, clusters of flowers small sessile involucrate by the 

 large and broad stipules, bracts lanceolate ciliate exceeding the flowers. Kurz 

 For. FL ii. 32. Mephitidia stipularis, DC. Prodr. iv. 453. 



TENASSEBIM or ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 2937). DISTRIB. Sumatra, 

 Java, Borneo. 



An evergreen low shrub. Leaves 4-6 by 1-2 in., rather narrowed towards the 

 subacute or rounded oblique base, greenish-brown when dry, membranous ; midrib 

 beneath sometimes with scattered hairs; nerves 10-12 pajr, slender; petiole very 

 short ; stipules ^ \ in. diam., rounded or broadly triangular- ovate or oblong coria- 

 ceous, glabrous, very persistent, concealing the flowers. Bracts 1 in. long, often 

 exceeding the stipules. Calyx-teeth hirsute, sometimes in. long. Corolla white. 

 Drupe in. diam., subglobose, smooth ; pyrenes 4-5. 



SECT. II. Bracteeetae. Cymes sessile, not embraced by the large 

 stipules, accompanied by evident long or short bracts. (Cymes peduncled in 

 5. L. Moonii.) 



* Bracts equalling or exceeding thefloivers. Branches hirsute or tomentose. 



3. Xi. cyanocarpus, Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 125 ; hirsute, leaves 

 petioled elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate caudate-acuminate, nerves 8-12 pair, 

 veins lax sparingly branched, base acute, cymes sessile, bracts many ovate- 

 lanceolate leafy exceeding the sessile flowers. Kurz For. FL ii. 32. L. brac- 

 teatus and L. Roxburghii, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 501, 502. L. 

 oculus-cati, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. ii. 315. L. laevicaulis, Kurz in Trimen. Journ. 

 Bot. 1875, 327. Lasianthus, ? Wall. Cat. 8440. Mephitidia cyanocarpa, DC. 



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