186 LXXY. EUBIACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lasianthus. 



28. Xi. parvifolius, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 612; quite 

 glabrous, leaves small petioled elliptic acute shining above coriaceous, base acute, 

 nerves 2-3 pair strong, veins very close much forked, flowers 2-3 sessile 4- 

 merous, bracts minute or obsolete, calyx-teeth small obtuse, corolla glabrous 

 externally. 



TEAVANCOEE; Courtallam, Wight. 



Branches slender. Leaves 1^-2 by f-1 in., pale brown when dry; petiole - in. ; 

 stipules ^- in., triangular, acute. Flowers very small. Calyx glabrous ; teeth 

 minute, triangular. Corolla-tube % in., glabrous ; throat and lobes within hairy. 

 Drupe " size of a pea," Wight, globose, glabrous ; pyrenes 3-4. 



29. Xi. obovatus, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 10 ; glabrous, leaves small 

 petioled obovate obtuse coriaceous, nerves 4-5 pair and veins very indistinct, 

 flowers 1-3 sessile ebracteate, calyx-teeth ovate or triangular. 



TBAVANCORE, on the Athramallay Mts., alt. 5000 ft., Beddome. 



Shrubby, much branched; branches very short with short internodes, black. 

 Leaves hardly distichous, 1 by f in. almost black when dry, with recurved margins ; 

 petiole ^ in. ; stipules triangular, ^ in. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx campanulate, 

 puberulous ; teeth ovate or triangular. Corolla-tube very short, glabrous, throat 

 villous. Drupe not seen. 



30. I.. Walkerianus, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 512 ; quite 

 glabrous or young shoots puberulous, leaves petioled elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate 

 or obovate apiculate acute or acuminate very coriaceous, nerves 7-8 pair very 

 slender, veins copiously reticulate hardly parallel, flowers fascicled sessile, bracts 

 0, calyx-teeth 4 small triangular obtuse. Mephitidia Walkeriana, Thw. Enum* 

 146. M. varians, Thw. 1. c. in part (0. P. 290). 



CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 5-6000 ft., Macrae, Walker, &c. 



Thwaites distinguishes this doubtfully as a species from L. strigosus by the nar- 

 rower more acuminated leaves almost or wholly glabrous beneath, and shorter flowers ; 

 but these are not the characters of Wight's authentic specimens, which have shorter 

 more coriaceous leaves than L. strigosus, with very much reticulated venules ; in small 

 specimens the leaves are only 2 in. long, obtuse and apiculate, with a longer petiole 

 in proportion. It looks more like a mountain dwarf form of L. strigosus with rigid 

 leaves and small flowers, but the calyx is quite different ; it accords with Thwaites" 

 sessile flowered form of Mephitidia varians. 



VAR. lanceolatus ; leaves narrowly lanceolate 3-5 by ^-1 in. Ceylon, Macrae and 

 Thwaites (C. P. 80, 340, 1728). 



81. Xi. olig-anthus, Tliw. Enum. 146 (Mephitidia); branches slender 

 tips and petioles appressed pubescent, leaves elliptic-lanceolate long- acuminate 

 membranous shining, nerves 5 pair very slender hardly distinguishable from the 

 laxly reticulating veins, flowers subsolitary ebracteate. 



CEYLON ; Hantani district, Thwaites. 



Very closely allied to L. strigosus, and, as Thwaites remarks, probably a form 

 growing in poor dry soil, but the nervation of the leaf is different. The only speci- 

 mens seen have no flowers ; Thwaites describes them as in few-flowered heads, small, 

 with short acute calyx-teeth. 



32. Xi. G-ardneri, Thw. Enum* 145 (Mephitidia) ; stem stout glabrous 

 or nearly so, leaves large petioled oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base acute 

 glabrous or hairy on the 8 pair of nerves beneath, veins faint and reticulated, 

 flowers crowded sessile ebracteate, calyx substrigose, teeth ovate-lanceolate 

 acute. 



CEYLON ; Newera Ellia and Adam's Peak, Gardner. 



Branches black, as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 3-8 by 1|-2J in., brown when 

 dry, coriaceous, opaque; petiole %-^ in., glabrous or strigose; stipules very small, 



