826 RUBIACEAE 



Var. radicans (Thunb.) Makino. G. radicans Thunb.; cumbent at base; leaves oblanceolate, 4-6(-8) cm. long, 1-2 



G. ftorida var. radicans (Thunb.) Matsum. ^Ko-kuchi- cm. wide; flowers small, single or double. Known only in 



NASHi. Much-branched shrub with ascending branches, de- cultivation. 



9. MOKINDA L. Yaeyama-aoki Zoku 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent; leaves opposite or ternate, usually membranous or slighdy fleshy; stipules 2, forming a 

 sheath at the base of the petioles; heads pedunculate, axillary or terminal, often umbellate; flowers white, rarely unisexual; calyx- 

 limb short, persistent, truncate or obsoletely toothed; corolla infundibuliform or hypocrateriform, the tube short, the lobes 

 5(4-7); ovary 2 (or imperfecdy 4) Jocular; fruit connate and forming a headlike, juicy, many-stoned syncarp; stones free or 

 few-connate, 1-seeded. About 60 species, in the Tropics, mainly in Asia and the Pacific Islands. 



1. Morinda umbellata L. Stigmanthus cymosus Lour, simple peduncles 1-2.5 cm. long, few-flowered; calyx shallowly 

 Hanagasa-no-ki. Nearly glabrous scandent or twining cup-shaped, connate in fruit; corolla about 4 mm. long, hypo- 

 shrub; leaves chartaceous, oblong or narrowly obovate, 7-12 crateriform, short-tubular, the lobes 4, white-villous inside at 

 cm. long inclusive of a petiole about 1 cm. long, 2.5-4.5 cm. base; syncarp irregularly globose, about 8 mm. across, black 



wide, acute at both ends, with tufts of axillary hairs beneath; when mature. July-Aug. Kyushu (Yakushima and Tane- 



stipules connate and sheathlike, 3-4 mm. long, membranous, gashima). Ryukyus, Formosa, China to Malaysia, and In- 

 truncate; heads umbellate, puberulent, terminal, about 10, the dia. 



10. PSYCHOTRIA L. Bochoji Zoku 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent; leaves opposite, rarely verticillate in 3's or 4's; stipules interpetiolar, often forming a 

 connate sheath; flowers in a terminal or rarely axillary thyrse, cyme, or panicle, sometimes fascicled in leaf -axils, or capitate, 

 small, white, reddish, or yellow, bracteate or ebracteate, the bracts sometimes involucrelike; calyx-tube short; corolla hypocrateri- 

 form, subrotate to infundibuUform, the lobes 5(4-6), valvate in bud; ovary 2-locular; style short, 2-lobed; ovules solitary in each 



locule, anatropous, drupe small, with 2 stones, the stones often grooved. ^More than 500 species, in the Tropics, especially 



abundant in America. 



lA. Erect shrub or small tree; leaves 12-20 cm. long; fruit red 1. P. rubra 



IB. Scandent, vi^ith aerial roots; leaves 2-4.5 cm. long; fruit white 2. P. serpens 



1. Psychotria rubra (Lour.) Poir. Antherura rubra back. Aug. Woods in low mountains and hills; Kyushu 



Lour.; P. elliptica Ker-Gawl.; P. reevesii Wall.; Aucubaephyl- (Yakushima). Ryukyus, Formosa, China, and Indochina. 



lum lioukiense Ahlburg Bochoji, Ryukyu-aoki. Large 2. Psychotria serpens L. P. scandens Hook. & Arn. 



glabrous shrub slightly tinged with red when dry; branchlets Shiratama-kazura. Scandent woody plant, climbing by aid 



terete, rather thick, green; leaves thick, broadly oblanceolate, of aerial roots; leaves thick, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 2-4.5 cm. 



12-20 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wide, acuminate with a minute long, 1-2.2 cm. wide, obtuse or subacute, acute at base, the 



obtuse tip, gradually narrowed at base, with 10-13 pairs of lateral nerves obscure, the petioles 1-A mm. long; stipules 2 at 



weak lateral nerves, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; cymes terminal, each node, ovate, caducous; inflorescence a terminal cyme, 



sessile, 4-7 cm. across, many-flowered; flowers small, white, rather many-flowered, the bracts small; flowers white, 4-5 mm. 



about 5 mm. long, pedicelled; calyx nearly truncate at apex; long, on short pedicels; fruit globose or ellipsoidal, 4-5 mm. 



corolla infundibuliform, with white hairs on throat inside, the long, white at maturity. On tree trunks in low mountains 



lobes slightly less than half as long as the corolla; fruit globose, and hills; Honshu (Kii Prov.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, 



red, about 6 mm. long; seeds with longitudinal grooves on Formosa, China, and Indochina. 



11. LASIANTHUS Jack Ruri-mi-no-ki Zoku 



Shrubs; leaves opposite, short-petioled, usually entire, with prominent transverse veinlets; stipules interpetiolar, usually cadu- 

 cous; flowers small, 5-merous, fasciculate in leaf-axils, bracteate, white, greenish, or yellowish; calyx-tube and limb short, teeth 

 or lobes persistent; corolla infundibuliform or hypocrateriform, the lobes 4-9, valvate in bud; ovary 4- to 9-locular; style 4- to 9- 



lobed; ovules solitary in each locule, erect, anatropous; drupe 4- to 9-stoned. More than 100 species, in tropical regions of 



Asia, few in e. Asia, Australia, Cuba, and w. Africa. 



lA. Calyx-teeth shorter than the limb of calyx; corolla about 1 cm. long. 



2A. Petioles and underside of leaves thinly apprcssed-pilose or nearly glabrous 1. L. japonicus 



2B. Petioles and underside of leaves especially on nerves vi^ith spreading hairs 2. L. satsumensis 



IB. Calyx -teeth longer than to as long as the limb of calyx; corolla 6-7 mm. long. 



3A. Petioles and nerves on underside o£ leaves appressed-pubescent; young branches slightly appresscd-pubescent or glabrous. 



3. L. tashiroi 

 SB. Petioles and nerves on underside of leaves brownish yellow spreading-pubescent; young branches densely brownish hairy. 



4. L. tawadae 



