26 RUBIACER. (Leora. 
lanceolate, acute, as long as the tube; corolla glabrous, villous at 
the throat, the tube very slender, 14-2 in. long, the lobes linear- 
oblong, acute, 3-34 lin. long; style exserted, the stigmatic lobes 
very short. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. July. 
x x Flowers crimson, scarlet, or orange. 
24. I. stricta, Roxb.—An evergreen, large, branchy shrub, all 
parts quite glabrous ; stipules from a broad base acuminate 3 leaves 
oblong to elliptically oblong, rounded to acute at the base, on a 
very short (1-2 lin. long) thick petiole or almost sessile, shortly 
acuminate or bluntish, 2-5 in. long, thin-coriaceous or pergama- 
ceous, entire, glabrous; flowers showy, scarlet to pale rose and white, 
shortly pedicelled, cymulose, forming a rather crowded, trichoto- 
mous, brachiate, shorter or longer peduncled or almost sessile, glab- 
rous, corymbose cyme at the end of the branches; calyx 4 a line long, 
glabrous, the lobes as long as the tube, rounded ; corolla glabrous, 
the tube slender, 1-14 in. long, the lobes about 2 lin. long, almost 
orbicular ; berries globular or didymous, the size of a pea, glabrous, — 
crowned by the small calyx-limb., 
xburghiana: corymbs sessile or nearly so, rarely 
Se et-potandied 3 leaves usually almost sessile and often rounded at 
e base. 
Var. 2, Blumeana (Pavetta Javanica, Bl.) : corymbs more lax, 
on a 1-13 in. long peduncle; leaves on 1-2 lin. long petioles, 
usually acute at the base ; flowers somewhat larger. 
Has.—Both varieties in Upper Tenasserim ; also in tropical forests above 
Rangoon.—Fl. Jan.-Apr. 
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parts quite glabrous; stipules from an ovate base abruptly subulate- 
acuminate ; leaves oblong to elliptically oblong and ovate, on a 
thick petiole 4-1 lin. long or almost sessile, rounded to almost cor- 
date at the base, bluntish, acute or apiculate with a mucro, 1-33 
cymulose, forming a sessile or short-peduncled, indistinctly puberu- 
lous, trichotomously brachiate, corymbose cyme at the end of the 
Var. 1, Linneana : corolla-lobes ovate-lanceolate, very acute. 
