Pavetta.) RUBIACE. 569 
sessile or pedicelled; bracteoles 2 under the calyx or, if flowers 
_ Pedicellate, on the pedicel. Sepals connate in an ovoid or turbinate 
calyx; limb See on some 5- ‘fat fwculy fid. — 5, rarely 4, 
 tonnatein a funne with short or 
long tube and ie or villous throat; lobes narrow, usually 
long, spreading or reflexed, contorted. Stamens 5, rarely 4, adnate 
mouth of corolla; filaments short or 0; anthers narrow-linear, 
often acute, exserted. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules 
many, rarely few or paired or solitary in each cell (in our only 
species ovules solitary); style stout, — pubescent ; stigma 
long, fusiform, usually far-exserted. Prue a small, globose berry ; 
1- or more-seeded. Seeds perio or cup-shaped, rarely 
angular ; albumen fleshy or horny ; mi se ea leafy. 
984. Wepera campanirtora Hook. f.; F. B 
Chittagong. 
A large bush or small tree. Beng. Kankra. 
424. Pavetta Linn. 
Shrubs or small trees, branches terete ; leaves opposite, petioled, 
Usually membranous ; ; stipules ieee usually connate in a 
. loose, deciduous sheath. Flower axillary or terminal 2- 
chotomously branched corymbs, i AG bracteoles ya 
‘pals connate in an ovoid or turbinate calyx; limb short or long, 
deciduous or persistent; lobes 4, rarely 5. Petals 4, rarely 5, 
‘onnate in a hypoerateriform corolla; tube slender, cylindric ; 
lobes spreading, contorted. Stamens 4, rarely 5, adnate to mouth 
o throat of corolla ; filaments long or short or 2 — linear. 
Leaves glabrous beneath or nearly so ; cymes glabrate ; corolla pom 
indica. 
Leaves 
beneath: ¢ 
Sot or softly or harshly puberulous above, pubescent 
s tom indica var. tomentosa. 
entose or villouS .----+-+++++++ 
985, a mnDica Linn.; F. B. I. iii. 150; E. D. P. 338. 
Ixora Pavetta ¥. I. i. 385. 
Chittagon 
A small ise, Beng. Kukura-chura. 
