112 49. RUBiACEiE. IMorinda, 



Ovary 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled. Fruit a compound succulent berry 

 containing a number of bard pyrenes, 2-4 from eacli flower. 



Leaves pubescent, tomentose or glabrous, not sbining .. M. citrifolia. 

 Leaves glabrous, sliining ... . ... ... . . . M . tinctoria, 



M. citrifolia, Linn. ; DC Prod. IV. 446 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 155 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 114; Brandis For. Fl. 277. Bedd. Fl. Sjlv. t. 220. 

 Aavl, bariundi, Vern. ; auh, M. ; ainsJii, K. Var. 1, citrifolia proper. 

 Cultivated. Yar. 2, bradeata, is common along the coast of the Konkan 

 quite near the sea. Fruit a white syncarpium. FJ. and Fr. R.S. 

 Var. 3, elliptica. Konkan, Stocks. 



M. tinctoria, Roxb. Fl. Br. I. 3. 156; Brandis For. Fl. 277 ; M. citri- 

 folia, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 220. M. tomentoea, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 114. M. multiflora, Roxb., Brandis For. Fl. 227 ; M.exserta, Brandis 

 For. Fl. 276. Al, ack, aUeri, alladi, ahishi, Vern. Var. 1, tinctoria 

 proper, is cultivated. Var. 2, tomentosa, common in the deciduous forests 

 of the presidency. Fl. May. Fruit ripe June, July. Var. 4, forma 

 exserta, Panch Mahals. Brandis. 



PSYCHOTRIA, L. 



Shrubs or small trees, Leaves petioled, attenuated at the base. 

 Stipules solitary or in pairs, often with glandular hairs. Flowers in 

 terminal corymbose cymes, bracteate or not. Corolla-tube short, 

 straight ; throat hairy or glabrous. Anthers included or 0. Ovary 

 2-celled, cells 1-ovuled. Fruit small, ovoid, globose or oblong, 

 rarely didymous. Seeds plano-convex, ventrally flat or grooved 

 Albumen hard, sometimes ruminate. 



Seeds plano-convex, no ventral groove. Albumen 

 ruminated. 



Cyme branches whorled. F^^owers bracteolate. Corolla- 

 tube very short. 



Flowers mixed with rufous hairs. Calyx-limb not en- 

 larged in fruit, btipules small ... P. Thwaitesii. 



Flowers without rufous hairs. Cymes congested, 



branches short. Stipules large... ... ... ... P, truncata. 



Cymes with long stout branches. Fruit crowned with 



the enlarged calyx lobes... ... ... ... ... P. DalzelUi. 



Cyme branches opposite, yellow in fruit ... ... P. flavida. 



Seeds dorsally ridged, furrowed. Albumen equable ...P. canarensis. 



P. Thwaitesii Hook. f. Fl. Br. I. 3. 162. On the southern ghats 

 of North Kanara, in evergreen forests, common near the Nilkund and 

 Gairsoppah ghats at about 2,000 feet elevation. Fl. Mch., Apl. Fr. 

 ripe Nov., Dec. A large gregarious shrub. 



P. truncata, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 162; Fl. Br. I. 3.163. 

 Orumilea vaginans, DC.; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 111. In the ever- 

 green forests of the Konkan and North Kanara ghats ; common in the 

 forests near the Tinai ghat, Fl. Jany. Fr. ripe Oct. 



