32 RUBIACER. [ Lastanthus. 
shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, 2-3 in. long, entire and cili- 
ate, chartaceous, more or less stiff-hairy on the midrib above and 
generally on the nerves beneath; flowers small, white, sessile, in 
smaller or larger hirsute bracted clusters in the axils of the leaves 
and occasionally at the end of the branchlets ; bracts linear-subulate, 
up to in. long, h 
acuminate, shorter than the tube; corolla hispid, the tube nearly 2 
lin. long; drupes ovoid, the size of a pepper-kernel, glabrous or 
nearly so, crowned by the short calyx-limb or its scar 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests from Martaban down to 
Tenasserim ; also Andamans.—F. Apr.-May ; Fr. March.—s.—-SS.—Metam. 
in. long and somewhat broader, glabrous ; leaves elliptically oblong 
the midrib beneath often sprinkled with stiff deciduous hairs ; 
flowers small, white, sessile, forming a densely-bracted, hirsute, axil- 
cluster in the axils of the leaves and usually concealed by the — 
large stipules ; bracts lanceolate to linear, acuminate, hirsute, ciliate, 
up to an inch long; calyx hirsute, the lobes hirsute-ciliate, up to 5 
lin. long. 
Has.—Tenasserim or Andamans. 
6. L. 
high, all parts covered with dark-brown hairs ; stipules lanceolate, 
hirsute, deciduous ; leaves oblong-lanceolate to obovate-oblong and 
onger hairs, beneath, especially on the nerves, brown or yellowish 
pubescent ; flowers small, white, sessile, forming dense, large-bracted, 
sessile, brown-hirsute clusters in the axils of the leaves, the outer 
eafy, up to an inch long or longer, ovate, acuminate, hirsute ; 
lin. long ; corolla nearly 
an in. long, shortly hirsute ; drupes oval, the size of a goose- 
berry, villous, azure blue, sappy, containing usually 4 pyrenes, 
Has.—Rather frequent in the tropical f, : 
Chittagong—Fl. May-June—s, “Pests of South Andaman; also 
GYNOCHTHODEs, Bl. 
Calyx-limb entire, short, deciduous, ( lla sh 
sha ; tube villous within ; limb he Scpaintind, eae 
ing from the middle, with inflexed tips, Stamens 4 or 5, inserted 
at the base of the corolla; the filaments short; anthers linear. 
y funnel- 
