1877.] Knowledge of the Burmese Flora. IGl 



In the tropical forests of the valleys of the Nattoung hills (Martaban) 

 grows another species, apparently new, which has very short thick petioles 

 and the uppermost leaves almost sessile ; but the specimens are too bad for 

 descri23tion. 



Myrioneuron, R. Br. 



Conspectus of Genera. 



Glabrous ; cymes compact and head-like, densely bracted, nodding ; bracts subulate, 

 rig-id, M. nutans. 



Branches hirsute ; cymes corymb -like, trichotomous, Mrsute, ereot ; bracts broad, mem- 

 branous, hirsute, M. hirsuf.um, 



1. M. NUTANS, E. Br. in Wall. Cat. ; Kurz For. Fl. 11. 55. 

 Hab. Chittagong-hills, Kassalong (C. B. Clarke).— Fr. CS. 



2. M. HiESUTUM, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. 11. 55. 



Hab. Ava, hills east of Bhamo (J. Anderson). — Fl. May. 



Uropliylluni, Jack and Wall. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



* Ovary and berry 5 — Q-celled. Flowers in shorter or longer simple or deconi' 



pound umhelets or cymes. 



Leaves and shoots glabrous ; calyx about 2 lin. across, U. glahrum^ 



Leaves beneath and shoots more or less pubescent ; calyx a line across, .. U. strigosum. 



* * Ovary and berry ^'Celled. Flowers in sessile clusters. 



All parts glabrous ; flowers minute, V. biloculare,. 



1. U. GLABEUM, Jack and Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 184^ ; DC. 

 Prod. IV. 441. {Axantlies longifolia, Wight in Maccl. Calc. Jom-n. VII. 

 and Icon. t. 1165). 



Hab. Tenasserim, Mergui (teste Wight). 



2. U. STEIGOSUM, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 194 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 223. 



Hab. Tenasserim (or Andamans ?) (Helf. 2940 and 2944). 



3. U. BiLOCFLAEE, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872. 313. 

 Hab. Rather rare in the tropical forests of the Martaban hills east 



of Tounghoo. — Fr. March. 



Rubia, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



Leaves more or less cordate -ovate, long-petioled, 3 — 5-nerved, ^. cordifolla. 



Leaves narrow-linear, sessile, 1-nerved, K- angustissima. 



1. R. coEDiroLiA, L. Mant. 197; DC. Prod. IV. 588; WA. Prod. 

 I. 442 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 337. (B. Munjista, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Wall. I. 383 ; B. scandens, Zoll. and Mor. Syst. Verz. m ; B. purpurea ^ 

 Dene. Mem. Acad. Brux. XI ; Jacq. Voy. Bot. 84. t. 92). 

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