RUBIACEAE. — PRISMATOMERIS 413 



Yunnan: Mengtsze, forests to southeast, alt. 1640 m., A. Henry (No. 10777; 

 tree 5 m. tall; flowers white); Szemao, east on the Tea Hills, A. Henry (No. 

 11934); same locality, mountains to south, alt. 1480 m., A. Henry (No. 11934"; 

 shrub 2 m. tall). 



MORINDA Linn. 



Morinda umbellata Linnaeus, Spec. 176 (1763). — De Candolle, Prodr. IV. 449 

 (1830). — Wight & Arnott, Prodr. Fl. /rjd. 420 (1834). — Walhch, Cat. No. 8431 

 (1847). — Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 159 (1861). — Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, U. 

 62 (1877). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 157 (1880). — Maximowicz in Bull. 

 Acad. Sci. St. PMersbourg, XXIX. 170 (1883); in Mel. Biol. XI. 795 (1883).— 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 386 (1888). 



Morinda Padavara A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 206 (1789). 



Morinda scandens Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. I. 548 (1820). — De Candolle, Prodr. 



IV. 449 (1830). 

 Morinda tetrandra Jack in Malay. Misc. I. 13 (1820). — Wallich, Cat. 8432 



(1847). — Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. II. 203 (1824). — De Candolle, Prodr. IV. 



449 (1830). 



Yunnan: Mengtsze, forests to southeast, alt. 1640 m., A. Henry (No. 11246; 

 large climber on tree; fruits reddish). 



PRISMATOMERIS Thwaites. 



Prismatomeris tetrandra K. Schumann in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfianzenfam. 

 IV. abt. 4, 138 (1891). — Craib in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1911, 395. 



Coffea tetrandra Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. I. 538 (1820). — Wallich, Cat. 6242 



(1830). — De Candolle, Prodr. IV. 499 (1830). — Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. 



Burma, II. 28 (1877). 

 Prismatomeris albiflora Thwaites in Hookcr\s Jour. Bot. & Kew Card. Misc. 



VIII. 268, t. VII. (1856); Enum. PI. Zeylan. 154, 421 (1859). — Hooker f., 



Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 159 (1880). 



Yunnan: I-wu, A. Henry (No. 13573; in Herb. Kew). 



Prismatomeris brevipes Hutchinson, n. sp. 



Frutex 2-3 m. altus; ramuH graciles, flexuosi, sulcati, cortice cinereo-brunneo 

 obtecti, glabri. Folia lanceolata v. oblongo-lanceolata, basi acute cuneata, apice 

 longe acute acuminata acumine 1.5-2 cm. longo, 7-12 cm. longa, 1.7-3.3 cm. lata, 

 tenuiter chartacea, utrinque glabra; nervi lateralos utrinsecus circiter 6, intra mar- 

 ginem conspicue conjuncti, graciles, infra prominuli; nervi tertiarii et venae vix 

 evoluta; petioli 3-5 mm. longi, glabri; stipulae minutae. Floros axillares et ter- 

 minales, brevissime pedicellati, plerumquc geminati; pedicolli 1-2 mm. longi; 

 receptaculum turbinatum, 1.5 mm. longum; calyx brevissimus, minutus, denti- 

 culatus; corolla alba; tubus superne sensim leviter ampliatus, 1 cm. longus, extra 

 glaber, intra tenuiter pubescens; lobi ovato-lanceolati, subobtusi, 2 mm. longi; 

 stamina fauci inserta, inclusa; antherae 2 mm. longac; stylus gracillimu.s, corollac 

 tubo aequilongus, glaber; ovarium 2-loculare. Fructus leviter 2-lobus, globosus, 

 5 mm. diametro, glaucescens, calycis lobis suberectis pcrsistentibus coronatus; 

 pedicelli 2.5-4 mm. longi. 



Yunnan: Mengtsze, mountains to southeast, alt. 1950 m., A. Henry (No. 

 9040^ shrub 3 m. tall; fruit reddish; No. OOIO^J; No. 9040«, type; No. 90400- 



Tliis species is very similar in general appearance to Prismatomeris tetrandra 



