Leptodermis.'] LXXV. RUBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 199 



KHASIA Mrs., alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2964), &c. 



A small rigid bush ; branches stout ; branchlets slender, furfuraceous. Leatfi 

 -! in., brown when dry, nerves 2-3 pair, glabrous or nearly so beneath. Calyx- 

 teeth nearly glabrous, lanceolate. Corolla white, in. long. Capsule % in. long, 

 brown. Seed enclosed in an adnate reticulate fibrous coat. 



4. Xi. scabrida, Hook. /. ; leaves small elliptic-lanceolate subacute 

 scabrid above coriaceous, stipules with, recurved pungent points, capsules ovoid 

 twice as long as the bracteoles, much longer than the short obtuse glabrous 

 calyx-teeth. 



MISHMI HILLS (Upper Assam), towards the summit of Thumathya, Griffith. 



Evidently nearly allied to L. Griffithii, having a turgid capsule, but this and the 

 leaves are smaller, the calyx-teeth shorter and more obtuse, and the utricle quite 

 loose. " Corolla tinged with purple," Griffith. Seeds enclosed in a loose reticulate 

 fibrous coat. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



L. sp. ? ; an excessively branched shrub, branches slender hispid interlaced, leaves 

 f-1 in. linear or linear-lanceolate acute hispid above or on both surfaces, stipules 

 small appressed, bracteoles short pubescent, capsules cylindric in. long, calyx-teeth 

 very short. Nipal, Wallich (Cat. 6241 A., in part}. Habit of L. virgata, Edgw. 



L. sp. ? ; branches stout, leaves in. elliptic or ovate obtuse hirsute on both sur- 

 faces, stipules small appressed, capsules cylindric \ in., calyx-teeth broad short. 

 Bhotan near Telagoung, Griffith. Specimens of an allied species or variety from 

 below Chupcha, 70UO ft., Griffith, have very slender branches and obovate or oblong 

 leaves ^ ^ in. 



TRIBE XV. S FERIVI ACOCE JE. 

 86. HVDROPHVIiAX, Linn. JU. 



Creeping glabrous stout succulent herbs, branches terete. Leaves opposite, 

 sessile, ovate-oblong ; stipules combined with the petioles into an entire or 

 toothed cup. Flowers solitary, axillary, shortly pedicelled, lilac. Calyx-tube 

 4-angled ; segments of limb ovate-lanceolate, persistent; Corolla rather fleshy, 

 between bell- and funnel-shaped, tube with a ring of hairs within ; lobes 4, 

 ovate, valvate. Stamens 4 on the corolla-throat, filaments filiform ; anthers 

 linear. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, pubescent, stigma obscurely 2-lobed ; 

 ovules 1, peltately attached to the septum in each cell. Fruit large, corky, 

 oblong-ovoid, compressed, curved, acutely 3-4-keeled between the acute margins, 

 1-2-celled, 2-seeded. DISTRIB. An Asiatic, a Natal, and a Madagascar species. 



1. K. maritima, Linn.f. ; leaves obovate acute. Roxb. Cor. PL t. 233; 

 Fl. Ind. i. 373; DC. Prodr. iv. 576; Wall. Cat. 6205; W. *f A. Prodr. 441; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 760. Sarissus anceps, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 118, t. 26. 



Sand-hills on the shores of the WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. 



Stems a foot long, sparingly branched. Leaves \-\ by \-% in., often recurved, 

 sometimes papillose or subscabrid, stipules broad sheathing. Calyx-tube % in., 

 longer than the lobes. Corolla ^-\ in. long, and as broad across the lobes. Fruit 

 5~| in. long, crowned with the enlarged calyx-teeth. 



87. SPER1VIACOCE, Linn. 



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Herbs or low undershrubs; branches usually square. Leaves opposite; 

 stipules connate with the petioles into a broad truncate tube with marginal 

 bristles. Flowers small or minute, solitary or in axillary or terminal fascicles 

 heads or cymes. Calyx-tube various, limb of 2-4 (rarely 5) teeth with often 

 interposed teeth or bristles. Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped ; lobes 4, valvate. 



