Coff'm] LXI. RUBIACE^ 391 



Vera. (Jhetra,'Ha.z. Padera, Hind. Subhimalayan tract and outer bills, from the Punjab 

 to Bhutan ascending to 5,000 ft., mostly on dry stony hillsides, often gregarious. Salt 

 range, Punjab. Merwara and Mt. Aboo. Behar. Western Peninsula, on the Ghats 

 of the Konkan and North Kanara, on the bills of the Northern Circars, Karnul and 

 Mysore. A small or large shrub, sometimes a small tree, more or less pubescent, 

 branches divaricate, almost herbaceous. L. rigid, elliptic-lanceolate, blade 6-12, pet. 

 4-1 in. long, sec. n. 10-16 pair, stipules persistent. PL 4-o-merous, blue-lilac or white, 

 fragrant (but, like the leaves, fetid when crushed), in a large terminal thyrsus, con- 

 sisting of trichotomous compact cymes, bracts, the lower foliaceous, the upper subulate. 

 Calyx hairy, teeth linear, persistent, longer than ovary. Corolla pubescent, funnel- 

 shaped, lobes short, spreading. Ovary 5-celled, style slender, 5-branched at top. Capsule 

 1 -celled, opening at the apex into 5 valves. Seeds 5 or less, triquetrous, testa reticulate 

 on the surface. 



24. LEPTODERMIS, Wall.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 198. 



Shrubs foetid when bruised, 1. opposite, several pairs often approximate on 

 arrested brancblets, stipules small, persistent. Fl. usually 5-merous, often 

 unisexual, white or purple, nearly sessile, in compact few-fid. cymes, 2 brac- 

 teoles under each fl., connate into a scarious, 2-cuspidate tube. Corolla-tube 

 slender, hairy within, throat glabrous, lobes valvate with inflexed edges. 

 Ovary 5-celled, style filiform, arms 5, linear, ovules erect, basal. Capsule 5- 

 valved to the base, seeds 5, each enveloped in a loose fibrous netted covering. 

 Species 8, Himalaya, China and Japan. 



1. L. lanceolata, Wall. Outer Himalaya, 3-9,000 ft. Kashmir-Bhutan. A small 



shrub, 1. Inn late, blade A -8. pet. J-j it), long. Fl. white, corolla J in. long. 



Capsule cylindric J-J in. 2. L. virgata, Edgew. Salt range. N. W. Himalaya, Hazara 

 to Knlii. North China. A rigid, much branched shrub, 1. linear }-i in. long. 

 8. L. Grifflthii, Khasi hills. Manipnr. L. lanceolate, 4-14 in. long, stipules with long 

 pungent puiiits. 1. L. crassifolia, Coll. et Hi-msl. Jn'irn. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 67. Shan 

 hills. Oppei Burma 4-5.000 ft. common on grassy slopes. Young shoots more or less 

 hairy, 1. ovate or orbicular, A in. long, A. sessile, white, corolla J in. long. 



25. P^EDERIA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 195. 



Slender twining shrubs, frutid when bruised, stipules deciduous. Fl. 4-5- 

 merous, in axillary and terminal compound trichotomous cymes, calyx-limb 

 persistent, corolla tubular or fuuuel-shaped, pubescent, lobes valvate with 

 inflexed crisped edges. Ovary 2-celled, stigmas 2, capillary, twisted, ovules 

 basal, erect. Fr. (in the species here mentioned) flat, a thin shining fragile 

 pericarp, separating from two flat orbicular or elliptic membranous or coriaceous 

 pyrenes. Species '.i or L0, most in tropical Asia. 



I. P. fretida, Linn. Qundali, Hind. Nepal. Sikkim, from Siligori toS.iMHI ft. Assam, 

 Khasi hills. Calcutta, Chittagong, Tenasserim. Yunnan. .Malay Peninsula and 

 A re hi 1 1. .Nearly glabrous, I. ovate-acuminate or ovate lanceolate, blade 2 5, pet. $-2 in. 



long. Cymes ped ulate, 2 6 in. long, branches long, in distant pairs, bracts often 



folio tug, corolla \ I in. long. Pyrenes black, with a broad pale wing. 2. P. lanu- 

 ginosa, Wall. PI. As. Bar. 1. 165. Martaban, Tenasserim, of ten in deserted Taungyas, 

 Fool of Shan hills. Upper Burma. Yunnan. A large twining shrub, stem as thick 



n man's arm, branch lets, petioles, underside of I. and cymes densely tomentose. 

 upperside "f I. rough when young with short stiff hairs; when mature « it h the raised 

 roots of fallen hairs, I. cordate acuminate, blade :s i;, pet, 1-8 in. Fl. dull purple, 

 crimson within, corolla $-J In. long. 



Aitchlsonia rosea, llein.sley, .loiini. Linn. Soc. \i\. t. II. Kuram valley, at 6,000 ft, 

 Baluchistan (var, Elliottii, Stapf.) A gregarious undersbrub, growing in dense clumps 



1 2 ft. high and 6 s ft. across, kept as dense cushions by the continuous browsing 

 of sheep and goats, I. opposite, petiolate, stipules interpetiolar, persistent, PI. pink, 

 in congested head -like involuorate cymes, * r. didymous, separating Into 2 cylindrical 

 1 - led cocoi. 



