192 LXXV. KUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [I^asiantlms. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



L. OBLIQUUS, Thw. Enum. 146 (Mephitidia oligantha, var. j8. obliqua); branches 

 slender with scattered strigose hairs, leaves subs'essile ovate or oblong-lanceolate 

 from a rounded or cordate oblique base caudate-acuminate membranous shining 

 above, nerves 5-6 pair very slender hardly distinguishable from the laxly reticulating 

 veins. Ceylon ; Saffragam district, up to 3000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites. The broad 

 leaves with rounded or cordate bases, and wide- spreading nerves of this plant, are 

 so different from any of the many forms of the preceding described species, that I 

 adopt Twaites' opinion of its being distinct. 



MEPHITIDIA, sp., Griff. Ic. PL Asiat. t. 476, is probably a Psychotria. 



80. SAFROSMA, Blame. 



Shrubs, foetid when bruised, with often subulate bristles at the tips of the 

 branches and bases of the peduncles. Leaves opposite or 3-4 whorled, mem- 

 branous ; stipules interpetiolar, usually connate, 1-3-pointed, deciduous. 

 Flowers small, white, axillary or terminal, solitary or fascicled, sessile or cymose 

 and peduncled; bracts and bracteoles minute, often connate. Calyx-tube 

 obconic; limb dilated, 4-6-lobed or -toothed, persistent. Corolla bell- or 

 funnel-shaped, throat villous ; lobes 4-5, broad, obtuse, valvate with inflexed 

 flat or crisped margins. Stamens 4-5 in the corolla-throat, filaments short or ; 

 anthers linear or oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, arms 2 short ; ovules 

 1 basal erect in each cell. Drupe small ; pyrenes 1-2 crustaceous. Seeds ellip- 

 soid and solitary or 2 and plano-convex, ventral face not grooved, testa mem- 

 branous ; cotyledons small foliaceous, radicle slender inferior. DISTKIB. Species 

 8, tropical Asiatic and Malayan. 



SECT. I. Eusaprosma. Flowers in small cymes. Anthers subsessile. 

 Seeds ellipsoid, usually solitary. Leaves opposite. 



1. S. indicum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 37; glabrous, leaves 

 sessile oblong or elliptic-oblong acuminate base narrowed or rounded, flowers 

 few terminal, calyx-teeth minute triangular. Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 112. 

 Dysodidendron glomeratum, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 3. S. 

 glomeratum, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 16. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; on the G-hats from Bombay southwards, ascending to 

 4000 ft. 



Branches pale, ultimate compressed. Leaves 3-5 by f-lf in., thin. ; stipules in., 

 connate, often 3-cuspidate. Flowers shortly pedicelled, with a basal toothed caly- 

 culus. Calyx unequally 4-5-toothed. Corolla in. long, white. Style shortly 2-fid. 

 Fruit %-j; in., ellipsoid. Seed solitary, broadly ellipsoid or globose. 



VAB. Gardneri; leaves usually broadly ovate-cordate. Serissa Gardneri, Thw. 

 Enum. 150. Ceylon ; forests about Gralagama, Thwaites. 



2. S. consimile, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 29; glabrous, leaves petioled or 

 sessile elliptic or lanceolate acuminate or caudate, base acute, flowers solitary 

 or few terminal, calyx-teeth lanceolate. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8351. Ooffea, 

 Watt. Cat. 8450. Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8467. 



KHASIA MTS., De Silva-, MARTABAN and TENASSERIM, in dry hill forests, alt. 

 3-5000 ft, Falconer, Kurz. 



Branches pale, ultimate minutely strigose or glabrate, not compressed. Leaves 

 3_5 by \-\\ in., membranous, pale greenish when dry ; petiole \-\ in. ; stipules 

 connate, mouth bristly. Flowers sessile and shortly pedicelled, pedicels with basal 

 bristles. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped ; lobes lanceolate, spreading. Corolla 5- in. long. 

 Style subentire. Fruit " broadly obovoid, smooth, and seed usually solitary," Kurz. 

 Some of the Tenasserim specimens have quite sessile leaves and look different, but, 

 having no flowers, it is impossible to say whether they are so specifically. 



