Lasianthus.] RUBIACER. 31 
an in. long, minutely puberulous outside, villous within ; drupes 
blue, oval, the size of a pea, glabrous, sappy, crowned by the calyx- 
limb. . 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Feb. 
2. L. constrictus, Wight.—An evergreen small shrub, the young 
branchlets thinly appressed-pubescent ; stipules from a broad b 
acuminate, small, more or less appressed-pubescent ; leaves lanceo- 
late to oblong-lanceolate, acute at the base, on a slightly pubescent 
2-3 lin. long petiole, 3-5 in. long, shortly acuminate, entire or little 
waved, pergamaceous, glabrous and glossy above, beneath, especially 
on the nerves, more or less puberulous from a minute yellowish 
down or rarely almost glabrous, rarely nearly pubescent; flowers 
small, on very short (4 lin. long) thick appressed-puberulous pedi- 
cels, forming by 2, 3, or more small puberulous clusters in the axils 
of the leaves or above the scars of the fallen ones; bracts minute, 
deciduous ; calyx hemispherical, minutely pubescent, occasionally 
somewhat constricted at the throat, the limb shortly sinuate-toothed 
or almost truncate; corolla hirsute, the tube about 4 inch long, the 
lobes as long; drupes ovoid, the size of a very small pea, glabrous, 
crowned by the rather large, almost truncate, at the base somewhat 
constricted calyx-limb. 
Has.—Common in the tropical forests of the Andamans; also all over 
Tenasserim.— Fl. Fr. Apr.-June.—s.—SS.—=Metam. SiS. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of Upper Tenasserim and the Anda- 
mans.—Fl, March-Apr.—s. 
4. L. Wallichii, Wight.—An evergreen slender, meagre, usu- 
ally simple-stemmed shrub, 3-8 ft. high, the branchlets covered 
- with brown spreading stiff hairs ; stipules triangular-lanceolate, cili- 
ate and often pubescent, small; leaves oblong to elliptically and 
almost ovate-oblong, oblique and rounded at the one side of the 
base, on a very short (4-1 lin. long) hirsute petiole or almost sessile, 
