Pcederia.~\ LXXV. RUBIACEJB. (J. D. Hooker.) 197 



** Fruit subglobose, pyrenes not separating from a filiform carpophore. 



7. P. tomentosa, Blume Bijd. 968 ; glabrous or sparsely 'pubescent, 

 leaves opposite petioled ovate or lanceolate acute or acuminate, base rounded or 

 cordate, calyx-teeth very short, fruit subglobose, pyrenes not winged. DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 471 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 76. P. barbulata, Miq. in Ann. Mas. Lugd. 

 Bat. 255. P. fcetida, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 162. Paederia sp., Griff. NotuL. iv. 

 268; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 479, f. 4. 



From the EASTERN HIMALAYA and KHASIA Mrs., ascending to 6000 ft. to SINGA- 

 PORE. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, S. China, Japan. 



Leaves 2-4 by 1-2^ in., above glabrous or sparsely liairy, beneath glabrous pubes- 

 cent or subtomentose ; petiole 1-3 in. Panicle as in P.foetida, but branches usually 

 shorter and the ultimate often scorpioid with secund sessile flowers. Calyx and 

 corolla as in- P. fcetida. Fruit ^-j in. diam., with 2 orbicular much compressed 

 pyrenes. 



? 8. P. linear is, Hook. f. ; glabrous, very slender, leaves opposite sub- 

 sessile narrowly linear acute, calyx-teoth minute, corolla pubescent. 



TBNASSERIM; at Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2911). 



Branches shining. Ltaves 2-3 by ^ in., nerves very obscure ; petiole in. or less. 

 Panicles spreading, broad ; branches very slender, repeatedly trichotomous; bra.-teoles 

 minute, flowers remote, often on long pedicels, like those of P. fcetida. Fruit 

 (unripe) subglobose, glabrous, in. diam. This is probably allied in the fruit to P. 

 tomentosa. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



P. RECURVA, Roxb. Hort. Bertg. 15; Fl. Ind. i. 684; DC. Prodr. iv. 471, appears 

 from Roxburgh's drawing to be Ixora recurva, Knrz. 



P. ERECTA, Roxb. Hort.Beng. 15; Fl. Ind. i. 685; 2>C. Prodr. iv. 471, is probably 

 a Psychotria.' 



84. HATCXX.TONZA, Roxb. 



A hispid pubescent or glabrate erect 3-chotomously branched undershrub, 

 foetid when bruised, branches terete. Leaves opposite, petioled, nerves many, 

 etout ; stipules intrapetiolar, short, acute, persistent. Flow&rs small, in broad 

 terminal 3-chotomously branched panicled or subumbellate cymes, white or 

 blue, sweet-scented, bracteate and bracteolate. Calyx-tube ovoid ; limb of 4-5 

 subulate persistent segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube long ; lobes 4-5, 

 short, valvate. Stamens 5, inserted in the corolla-throat, filaments- short subu- 

 late; anthers obovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary 5-furrowed, outer coat almost 

 free from the 5-celled inner coat; style filiform, arms 5 linear; ovules 1, basal, 

 erect in each cell. Capsule 1-celled from the absorption of the septa, 5-valved 

 at the top, 5 (or fewer-) -seeded. Seeds 3-quetrous, outer coat of testa reticu- 

 late 3-valved at the base, inner thick ; cotyledons cordate induplicate, radicle 

 inferior. 



1. K. suaveolens, Roxb. Hort. Bertg. 15 ; FL Ind. i. 554 ; DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 462; Brand. For. Fl. 278; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. 134/12, t. 17, f. 3. 

 H. scabra, Don Prodr. 137; DC. 1. c. H. mysorensis, W. $ A. Prafr..423; 

 Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 115. H. propinqua, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 91. 

 Lasianthus tubiflorus, Blume Bijd. 999. Spermadictyon suaveolens, Roxb. Car. 

 PL t. 236 ; Wall. Cat. 6239 ; Bot. Ren. t. 348. S. azureum, Wall, in Roxb. FL 

 Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 225; CH/6240; Bot. Reg. t. 1235. 



TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA and the Salt Range, alt. 2-5000 ft., from 

 Kashmir to Bhotan. CENTRAL INDIA and the WESTERN PENINSULA, ascending to, 

 4000 ft. from Marwar and Behar southwards to Mysore on dry rocky hills. DISTRIB. 

 China (probaoly introduced). 



