Ill 



opposite or verticillate, 4-angled, jointed equal between the joints ; 

 flowers sessile, opposite or verticillate at the joints; berries nearly 

 globose. Chorla Ghaut, growing on Olea paniculata; flowers in 

 April. 



LXXIII. RUBIACE.E. 



1. SPERMACOCE, Linn. 



1. HISPIDA, Linn. Maut. p 558. Herbaceous, diffuse, hairy or 

 scabrous; leaves from obovate-oblong to roundish ; bristles of the 

 stipules longer than the hirsute sheath; flowers few, axillary sessile, 

 white ; tube of the corolla wide ; capsule 2-seeded. A common weed. 



2. KNOXIA. 



1, CORYMBOSA, Willd. sp. 1, p 582. Stem somewhat shrubby, 

 erect, more or less hirsute; leaves lanceolate, hispid on the upper- 

 side, under pubescent; cymes corymbose, often very compound; 

 flowers white, numerous ; fruit 2-celled ; cells one-seeded. On 

 Wag Donger, near Vingorla ; flowers in August. Syn. K teres, 

 DC. Prod. 4, 569; K exserta, DC. loc. cit ; Spermacoce teres, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 367; S exserta, Roxb. loc. cit; S sumatrensis, 

 Retz.Obs. iv, p 23. 



3. GEOPHILA, Don. 



1. G RENIFORMIS, Don. Herbaceous creeping plant ; petioles 

 and peduncles hirsute or pubescent ; leaves roundish-cordate ; 

 peduncles 2 to 3-flowered, shorter than the leaf; corolla tubular, 

 hairy in the throat, with 5 ovate recurved lobes. At Vingorla. 

 Syn. Psychotria herbacea, Linn. sp. p 245. 



4. PSYCHOTRIA. 



1. AMBTGUA, W. and A. Prod. 1, p 433. Shrubby, erect, 

 glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate, tapering at the base ; corymbs 

 terminal, peduncled, trichotomous, lax, somewhat fleshy ; flower-bud 

 clavate and curved ; corolla tubular, white, 6 to 8 times longer than 

 the calyx ; fruit globose, with ten small ribs. Parwar Ghaut. 



5. GRUMILEA. 



1. VAGINNANS, Dalz. Mss. Shrubby, erect, glabrous; leaves 

 large obovate ; stipules ovate or lanceolate-acute, caducous, 1 to 2 

 inches long, combined into a sheathing tube ; corymb terminal 

 peduncled, panicle-shaped, trichotomous, puberulous ; flowers small, 



