Ixora.] RUBIACER, 19 
lanceolate, acuminate at the base, on a slender petiole 4-4 in. 
long, shortly and abruptly acuminate or bluntish, 3-5 in. long, 
Hap. coat ieee) in the tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fl. May- 
une.— 
5. : tomentosa, Roxb. (Pavetta tomentosa, Smith; Bedd. 
Sylv. Madr. 134-7 ; Brand. For, Fl. 275).—A leaf- adding treelet, 
(15—20+8—10+ 1—13) often remaining shrubby, all softer parts 
more or less pubescent, puberulous, or sometimes almost glabrous ; 
stipules broadly triangular, more or less abruptly acuminate, puberu- 
lous or pubescent ; leaves from elliptical and elliptically ‘ovate to 
oblong-lanceolate, on a 4-1 in. long petiole, 4-6 in. long, shortly 
and rather abruptly acuminate to bluntish, entire, firmly mem- 
branous, beneath pubescent, puberulous or rarely shortly tomentose, 
above more or less roughly puberulous, rarely almost glabrous; 
flowers showy, rather large, pure white, on 2-4 lin. long usually 
slender puberulous pedicels, forming puberulous or pubescent, almost 
sessile, corymbose cymes at the end of the late ses and sometimes 
also of the terminal, branchlets; calyx 4 a line long, sinuate- 
patina oi ee puberulous ; corolla glabrous, a slightly curved 
tube length from 3-3 in. ; berries globular, the size of 
a e. when fully ripe black, usually opaque and smoot th. 
1, Roxburghii: leaves, etc., more or less pubescent, nase 
cially Bench 
Var. 2, glabrescens; leaves of a thinner texture, only spar- 
ingly ay minutely puberulous, especially beneath, or quite glabres- 
AB.—Fr aig in lag? poate pani forests, ey the mixed ones, from 
rae and er Mattchen 4 rim ; var. 1: especially on permeable sub- 
strata and ome ras. ee: Bs gua jeer’ ones.—Fl. June-July; Fr. C.S.— 
8. I. naucleiflora, Kz.—A shrub or tree, all softer parts. vil- 
lous- pubescent: stipules pubescent, shortly and broadly ovate, 
acuminate ; leaves oblong to broad-lanceolate, on a pubescent or 
villous p etiole 3-1 in. long, acute at the base, rather shortly acu- 
oe 8. 5 in, long, entire, firmly membranous, above shortly, 
