338 RubiaceCB. [Tzmomus. 



G-. speciosa, L. Sp. PL 991 (1753). Nil-pitcha, S. Panir, T. 



Moon Cat. 14. Thw. Enum. 153. C. P. 2990. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 126. Wight, Ic. t. 40. Bot. Reg. t. 1393. 



A small tree, with stout pubescent branchlets, marked with 

 1. -scars ; 1. rather crowded at ends of branchlets, large, 5-8 in., 

 obovate-rotundate, somewhat cordate at base, usually rounded 

 at apex, pubescent on both sides especially beneath, pink 

 when young; petiole 1-1J in., pubescent, stip. ovate, acute ; 

 fl. nearly sessile, few, crowded on the short arms of a bifid 

 cyme, peduncle long, pubescent ; cal. silky-pubescent ; cor. 

 glabrous within, lobes shorter than tube, obtuse, spreading ; 

 anth. sessile, small, included; drupe hard, depressed-globose, 

 under 1 in., somewhat lobed, slightly pubescent. 



On the coast ; rare. Galle ; Kalutara ; and often cultivated in gardens 

 near the sea. Fl. Nov.-Jan.; white. 

 Tropical shores of both worlds. 

 The large jasmine-like flowers are extremely sweet-scented. 



30. TIMONIUS, DC. 



Small tree or shrub, stip. triangular, caducous; fl. rather 

 small, polygamo-dicecious, axillary, fern, often solitary, male 

 in bifid cymes; cal.-limb small, segm. 4; cor. tubular, rather 

 longer in male, lobes 4, valvate ; stam. 4 inserted in cor.-tube, 

 fil. o; ov. usually 12-celled with 1 pendulous ovule in each 

 cell, style with 4 or more branches; fruit a drupe with 10-12 

 compressed pyrenes. — Sp. 20; 3 in Fl. B. Ind. 



T. Jamtoosella, Thw. Enum. 153 (1859). Feddimella, 

 Angaria, 5. 



Nelitris Jambosella, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 134. Eupyrena glabra, W. & 

 A. Prod. 423. C. P. 157. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 127. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. or t. 190. 



A small tree-like shrub, 8-10 ft., branchlets slender, cylin- 

 drical, glabrous, marked with leaf-scars; 1. 2-5 in., rather 

 closely placed, oval or lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous 

 but often pubescent on veins beneath, and with tufts of hair 

 in their axils, venation pellucid, margin sometimes recurved, 

 petiole §— § in., stip. triangular, acuminate ; fl. sessile, with 2 

 very small bractlets beneath, male on short spreading branches 

 of cyme, fern, solitary or three together, peduncle about 1 in., 

 cal. silky; cor. pubescent outside, smooth within, fleshy, lobes 

 shorter than tube, recurved ; anth. sessile, linear, included ; 

 drupe \-\ in., nearly globose, lobed or ribbed Over pyrenes, 

 smooth, dark green, tipped with cal. -segm. 



