24, RUBIACER. [7eora. 
rather crowded, slightly curved and parallel ; flowers rather small, 
pale rose-coloured, on 1-3 lin. ong pedicels, cymulose, forming an 
almost sessile, brachiate, trichotomous, minutely puberous, corymbose 
cyme at the end of the branches ; calyx $ a line long, minutely 
puberous, the teeth minute, broad-triangular, acute and blunt ; 
corolla glabrous, the tube slender, about an inch long, the lobes about 
as long, oblong, blunt; style short-exserted 3 stigmatic lobes 
thick, hardly separating ; berries globular, the size of a very small 
pea, smooth, crowned by the calyx-limb. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fl. May-June. 
18. I, macrosiphon, Kz.—An evergreen tree (20—25+45—8 
+1—14), all parts glabrous ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate 3; leaves 
large, from ovate- and elliptically-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, round- 
ort, 3-angular, acute ; corolla glabrous, the tube stiff; nearly an 
inch long, the | i 
the tube; berries globular and didymous, the size of a pea, smooth, 
imb., 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the coast forests, especially the beach jungles, of 
the Andamans.—F, hoy. 
ME & brunnescens, Kz.—An evergreen tree (20—25 +4 6—104 
1—1}), all parts glabrous ; stipules from a broad base abruptly sub- 
al : 
trichotomously brachiate, short- (1-14 in.) -peduncled, quite place 
corymbose cyme at the end of the branchlets ; calyx small, glabrous, 
the teeth minute, triangular, acute; berries globular, crowned by 
the calyx-limb, smooth » the size of a small pea, : 
Has.—Frequent in the coast forests and beach jungles of the An — 
Fl. Apr.—s,—SS,—Aren, SiS, — ssa rae 
leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, almost sessile. w: 
cordate base, acuminate, 24.4 in, ] 
