80 RUBIACER. [Saprosma, 
Var. 2, puberulum: stipules, petioles and nerves beneath more 
or less pubescent. 
Has.—Var. 2: rather frequent in the tropical forests of the Andaman 
Islands,—F]. May-June.—s, ~ 
LASIANTHUS, Jack. 
Calyx-tube more or less hemispherical, the limb persistent, 
consisting of 4-6 (rarely 3) lobes or teeth, or rarely almost entire. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, the limb divided into as many lobes as calyx- 
leaves or sometimes termin 
b broad, with very short teeth 3 drupe crowned by the 
cyathiform-contracted, almost truncate cal x-limb : . L. constrictus, 
small. 
Leaves shortly petioled, puberulous beneath; outer bracts broad 
and blunt, but short ; calyx-lobes lanceolate . LL, stercorarius. 
Sparingly stiff-hairy; leaves almost sessile, oblique bracts all 
linear-subulate, hirsute . ‘ ; : ji : ‘ » L. Wallichit. 
Calyx-segments linear to linear-subulate, 3-5 lin, long, 
hirsute. 
Leaves glabrous or nearly so; stipules very large and leafy, oval, 
involucrating the flower-heads * Seine . . > 
All parts brown-hirsute ; outer bracts very large and leafy, ovate- 
acuminate ; stipules lanceolate, small, not leafy .° , .Z, eyanocarpa, 
_1. L. Tucidus, Bl.— An evergreen shrub, the young branchlets 
thinly appressed-pubescent ; stipules lanceolate, pubescent, small ; 
leaves oblong to ovate- and elliptically-lanceolate, often somewhat 
unequal and acute at the base, on an indistinctly pubescent or glab- 
L. stipularis. 
