ON THE GENUS CLARKELLA (RUBIACE®) 377 
from whom such remark might have fallen to the more favourable 
side of the character, or to a kinder interpretation of the incident 
which had called forth the adverse note; and I think he never said a 
word behind a man’s back that he would not as readily have said 
to his face. He spoke favourably, or he said n g. 
The friend to whom I referred at the beginning of these lines 
wrote to me when he heard of Mr. (len ke’s death, ‘‘ He was of all 
intellect with the most qualities which win the love 
And when he lay dying I we a lady, an old friend stil neighbour 
of his, at the door, where we had been making enquiries, who said, 
‘«* What a loss he will be! renylons ‘that knows him loves him.”’ 
W. H. Buss. 
ON THE GENUS CLARKELLA (RUBIACE). 
By Freperic N. Wuiu1ams, F.L.S. 
Ord. Rubiales, Nat. Fam. Rubiacee, eage Cin- 
chonine, trib, Oldenlandiex Schumann).—Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 
46 (May, 1880); Engl. & Pranti, Natirl. = pe ag iv. abt. 4 
31 ll Torre & Harms, Gen. Siphonog. 492, n. 8165 (fase. 7, 
subconnexis. Discus enbans annularis. Ovarium biloculare : 
stylus redsclede tubi corollini fere ima basi insertus, parte indivisa 
filiformi, rami 2 tenues pilosi stigmatibus minutis pileati. Ovula 
placentis uistendentibiis infra septi medium affixis ubique inserta, 
Capsula bilocularis membranacea obconica indehiscens 5-7-costata, 
limbo calycis amplius dilatato coronata. Semina minuta, irregu- 
lariter ellipsoidea, numerosa, testa nigra papillosa ; albumen car- 
nosum. Embryo clavatus bilobus.—Herba a Lene exigua erecta, 
omnino hispidula. as ——. ovata; paris inferioris uno 
seepius suppresso altero contrario saapilaie. Stipule integre 
minute, late ovate ye obsolete _ Flores albi, in cymam terminalem 
bracteatam pedune 
A genus founded by 8 Sir Joccah D. Hooker om Ophiorrhiza nana, 
named after his friend and co-worker, the late Mr. C. B. Clarke, 
and including only a single species. Its syste atig aeamition in the 
family is between Silvianthus Hook. f. and "A rgosteinatt: Wall. The 
description here given, both of the genus and he species, has been 
drawn up from the authentic material in Herb. Kew., with the 
assistance the original English description 
Crarxetta nana Hook, f., Pl. Brit. tolls iii. 46 (May, 1880) ; 
Strachey & ‘Duthie, Cat. Fl. Kumaon, 80 (1906). 
Radix tuberosa: tuber parvum carnosum, vagind crassiusculd 
