326 RubiaceCB. \Urophyllum. 



lanceolate, acute, shorter than tube; fil. very short, anth. 

 exserted; fruit (not seen) \ in., obovate-oblong, compressed, 

 fleshy, white; seeds striate, brownish-black. 



Wet forests up to 4000 ft. ; rare. Ambagamuwa (Gardn.) ; Ramboda ; 

 Adam's Peak ; Maskeliya ; Singhe Raja Forest ; Kottawa Forest, S. Prov. 

 Fl. January-May; greenish-white. 



Endemic. 



A remarkable plant ; the involucre resembles a large corolla. 



19. USOPHYLLVDI, Wall. 



Shrubs, stip. undivided ; fl. small, often unisexual, in axillary 



cymes or umbels; cal.-limb large, campanulate, thick, segm. 5, 



shallow; cor.-tube short, broad, hairy at mouth, lobes 5, longer, 



thick, valvate; stam. 5, inserted in cor.-tube, fil. short; ov. 



capped with thick prominent disk, 5 -celled, with numerous 



ovules in each ; style short, stigmas 5 ; fruit a fleshy globose 



berry; seeds minute, numerous, tubercled. — Sp. 35; 9 in Fl. 



B. Ind. 



Both our species are endemic. 



Stip. large, oblong; cymes nearly sessile . . 1. U. ELLIPTICUM. 



Stip. small, triangular ; cymes pedunculate . . 2. U. ZEYLANICUM. 



1. U. ellipticum, Thw. Enum. 419 (1864). 



Axanthes elliptica, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 147. Thw. 

 Enum. 139. C. P. 359. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 97. Wight, Ic. t. 1164 {Axanthes). 



A large shrub, with stiff branches, young ones cylindrical 

 and glabrous below, sub-quadrangular and pubescent above; 

 1. large, 6-10 in., lanceolate, acute at base, acuminate, acute, 

 glabrous above, often pubescent on veins beneath, rather 

 thick, veins prominent beneath, petiole ^-f in., slightly hairy, 

 stip. fin., linear-oblong, acute, thick, rigid, deciduous; cymes 

 small, nearly sessile ; fl. crowded, on very short glabrous ped. ; 

 cal. glabrous, segm. very broad and shallow, apiculate ; cor. 

 with long coarse hair within, lobes ovate, acute; berry small, 

 dull orange-yellow. 



Moist region from 1000-6000 ft.; rather rare. Adam's Peak; N. Eliya; 

 Deltota; Labugama. Fl. Jan.-May; white. 

 Endemic. First collected by Wight in 1836. 



2. U. zeylanicum, Thw. Enum. 418 (1$ 

 Axanthes zeylanica, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 146. Thw. 

 Enum. 139. C. P. 449. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 98. Wight, Ic. t. 1163. 



