22  ‘RUBIACE. [Izora. 
bular, the size of a small pea, crowned by the small calyx-limb, when 
fully ripe, black, smooth. 
HaB.—Not unfrequent in the dry, especially the mixed, forests of the Prome 
district.—F1. March.—].—S88.—=CaS: 
Remarxks.—Wood reddish brown, close-grained, hard; takes a good polish. 
13. I, barbata, Roxb.—A large shrub, all part glabrous; sti- 
pules ovate, mucronate ; leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, the lower 
ones on { to 4 in. long petioles, the upper ones more cordate-ovate 
and sessile or nearly so, rounded or obtuse at the base, shortly 
and often bluntish apiculate or bluntish acuminate, 5-8 in. long, 
entire, thin-pergamaceous, quite glabrous, green on both sides ; 
flowers laxly arranged, white, on 2-4 lin. ong pedicels, or those in 
the forks sessile, forming a brachiate, trichotomous, shorter or 
longer (1}-3 in.) peduncled, smooth, terminal, corymbose panicle 
furnished with a pair of sessile cordate-ovate leayes at its base ; 
lower bracts lanceolate, upper ones linear, small ; calyx more than 
3 a line long, glabrous, the teeth triangular, acute, short; corolla 
glabrous, somewhat (in Indian specimens much so) bearded at the 
throat, the tube about an inch long, the lobes oblong, bluntish, 
about } so long. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the forests of the Andamans.—Fl, May-June— 
SS.=serpentine and chloritic rocks. 
14. I. spectabilis, Wall.—An evergreen tree (20—25+5— 
10+14—2), all parts glabrous; bark brownish, rather smooth, 
calyx puberulous, nearly } a line long, the teeth very short, acute ; 
corolla glabrous, the tube slender, about 5 lin, long, the lobes 
oblong, bluntish, about 2 so long ; berries didymous or globular, 
the size of a cherr -stone, smooth, purplish black, crowned by the 
minute calyx-limb. 
Has.—Frequent along choungs in the tropical forests from Arracan Pegu 
gue Martaban down to Tenasserim—Fl, May-June; Fr. Oct-Menh ae 
as erim ay-June; Fr. Oct.-March.—s 
ReEMARKs.—Wood yellowish white, heavy, close-grained, hard and brittle, at 
exposure turning pale-coloured and blackish-streaked. 
15. I, diversifolia, Wall.—An evergreen large shrub, all parts 
glabrous ; stipules ovate, acuminate; leaves ovate to ovate-oblong 
