334 RubiaceCB. [Scyphostachys. 



A small tree, with thick branches and numerous stout, 

 short, lat. twigs, bark smooth, reddish-grey ; 1. very crowded 

 at ends of branchlets, sessile, 3-4 in., obovate-oval, much 

 tapering to base, subacute, glabrous on both sides, rather 

 coriaceous, stip. small, triangular, slightly connate, cuspidate, 

 caducous; fi. not seen; fruit large, i|-if in., nearly globose, 

 often bluntly pointed but not beaked, glabrous, rough, with 

 small worts, pale greyish-brown, epicarp thick, fleshy, valves 

 of endocarp 5, bony; seeds very numerous. 



Dry country ; very rare. Only met with as yet on rocky ground at 

 Nilgala, Uva; in fruit Jan. 1888. Fl. white. 



Also in India and Burma. 



Not having seen the flowers, some doubt as to the name of this may 

 be felt. 



25. NA.RCH2DXA,* Bedd. 



A large shrub, stip. acute, deciduous, fl. few, axillary ; cal.- 

 limb very short, segm. 4 (rarely 5), very short; cor.-tube 

 short, with lines of hair within, lobes 4 (rarely 5) shorter than 

 tube, twisted in bud ; stam. inserted in cor.-tube, anth. nearly 

 sessile, linear; ov. 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell, stigma 

 clavate, bilobed; fruit a dry berry, i-celled; seeds usually 2, 

 endosperm deeply ruminate. — Monotypic and endemic. 



XVE. macrocarpa, Bedd. For. Man. cxxxiv. 2 (1873 ?). 

 Hyptianthera macrocarpa, Thw. Enum. 157. C. P. 2709. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 122. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 328. 



A shrub, 8-10 ft., bark smooth, polished, yellow, young 

 parts glabrous; 1. large, 5J-6J in., oblong-lanceolate, acute at 

 base, acuminate, acute, quite glabrous, petiole \ in., stip. 

 narrowly triangular; fl. rather small, 1-3 in the axils, ped. 

 shorter than petiole, smooth; cal.-limb glabrous, short, segm. 

 very shallow, cor.-tube broad, lobes short, rounded, hairy in 

 the middle; fruit f in., broadly ovoid, slightly tapering at 

 both ends; seeds 2 or 3. 



Moist low country; very rare. Raitunwelle; Ambagamuwa; Singhe 

 Raja Forest. Fl. Feb.; cream-coloured. 

 Endemic. 

 I have not seen this living. 



26. SCYPHOSTACHYS, Thw. 



Shrubs, stip. connate, fl. small, in axillary or supra- 

 axillary bracteate spikes or clusters; cal.-limb short, segm. 4; 



* An anagram of Gardenia. 



