Lasiantlius.'] LXXV. KUBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 183 



** Bracts much shorter than the flowers. 



16. L. tubiferus, Hook. f. ; glabrous, or nerves beneath and bracts 

 puberulous. leaves petioled elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate narrowed and acuminate 

 at both ends, nerves 5-6 pair, veins sparingly branched, flowers sessile clustered 

 longer than the orbicular coriaceous bracts, calyx-limb campanulate shortly 5- 

 toothed tubular after flowering. Mephitidia, No. 9 Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. T. 



KHASIA and JYNTEA HILLS, alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. (Kew Distrib. 2923, 

 4,5). 



Branches dark brown or black when dry. Leaves 5-7 by l^-2 in., rather rigid, 

 brown when dry, opaque above ; petiole -| in. ; stipules small, in., triangular. 

 Bracts coriaceous, glabrous and ciliate or pubescent. Calyx the largest of the Indian 

 species, in., black, glabrous or pubescent; limb cylindric after flowering, and as long 

 and nearly as broad as the ovary, coriaceous, with 5 erect triangular or lanceolate 

 hispid teeth. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, pubescent, throat villous. Drupe \ 

 -in., ovoid, black, crowned by the broad calyx-limb ; pyrenes 5. 



17. Xi. oblong-ifolius, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 11 ; branches glabrous, 

 petioles and nerves beneath and stipules strigose, leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong 

 abruptly caudate-acuminate, base rounded or subacute, nerves 7 pair, veins 

 close-set prominent sparingly branched, petiole and subulate bracts and flowers 

 sessile fascicled hispid, calyx-teeth 5 triangular-lanceolate. 



TINNEVELLY ; in the Pampanussam hills, alt. 2500 ft., Beddome. 



Shrubby. Leaves 6-7 by 2 in., midrib and prominent nerves slightly strigose, 

 veins parallel and venules also very prominent ; petiole ^ in. ; stipules triangular. 

 Flowers 2-5 in a cluster. Corolla-tube very short, lobes 4. 



18. Zi. ofoscurus, Blume in DC. Prodr. iv. 453 (Mephitidia) ; branches 

 petioles stipules and nerves beneath softly tomentose, leaves petioled elliptic- 

 lanceolate finely acuminate, base acute, nerves 7-8 pair, veins faint rarely forked, 

 flowers fascicled sessile, bracts strigose outer ovate or oblong inner filiform or 

 subulate, calyx-teeth lanceolate. Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 317. 



MARTABAN, at Moulmein, Parish; SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. DISTKIB. 

 Sumatra, Java. 



Branches almost black when dry, hairs spreading, soft. Leaves 4-7 by 1-2 in., 

 greenish brown when dry, smooth and opaque above, with the midrib often pubescent, 

 beneath pubescent on and between the nerves ; petiole \-\ in. ; stipules \ in., oblong- 

 triangular, substrigose. Flowers not numerous; bracts scattered, ^ in. ; calyx-limb 

 cleft to the base. Drupe glabrous, " snow-white," Parish ; pyrenes 5. The Moulmein 

 specimen precisely accords with the Sumatran and Javanese. 



19. Xi. XLurzii, Hook. f. ; branches petioles and nerves beneath hoary 

 with minute appressed pubescence, leaves shortly petioled elliptic-oblong or 

 lanceolate finely acuminate, base acute, nerves 9-10 pair, veins faint straight not 

 reticulate, bracts outer ovate inner lanceolate equalling the fascicled sessile stri- 

 gose flowers, calyx-teeth 5-7 lanceolate. L. stercorarius, Kurz For. FL ii. 31, 

 not of Blume. Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8310, 8311. 



MARTABAN, at Chappedong, Wallich ; TENASSERIM and ANDAMAN ISLANDS, frequent, 

 Kurz ; PENANG ? Wallich. 



Branches pale reddish-brown, smooth. Leaves 5-8 by 1^-2 in., firmly membranous, 

 pale brown when dry, smooth and opaque above, finely softly pubescent on the nerves 

 beneath, veins close-set ; petiole -| in. ; stipules - in., oblong-lanceolate, pubes- 

 cent. Bracts glabrous or ciliate, small, outer more or less confluent, membranous, 

 shorter than the flowers, inner ovate. Calyx strigose ; limb dilated, deeply cleft. 

 Corolla infundibular, in., slender. Drupe very small, glabrous ; pyrenes 5-7. 

 Wallich's 8310 and 8311 appear conspecific, and as his habitat of Penang is given 

 with a doubt, they probably both come from Martaban; No. 8310 has a 6-7-cleft 



