36 RUBIACER. [ Plectronia. 
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calyx 3 a line long or somewhat longer, the limb obsoletely toothed ; q 
corolla short-funnel-shaped, the tube I-14 lin, long ; style flexuose, 
exserted; stigma mitre-shaped ; drupes didymous, elliptically obovate, 
on 4-7 in. long pedicels, glabrous, the size of a large coffee-bean, 
crowned by the scar of the calyx-limb, containing 2 or by abortion 
a solitary wrinkled pyrene, 
HaB.—Tenasserim, 
3. P. gracilipes, Kz.—An unarmed shrub, the young branch- 
lets thinly pubescent 3 stipules ovate, subul I 
, m 
pubescent nerves; flowers small, on 
~pubescent pedicels arising 
lateral branchlets ; calyx 
ong, glabrous, the teeth triangular ; dru 
the apex, somewhat compressed, 
b containing 2 or by abortion a solitary slightly 
ed pyrene rounded on the back. 
--Has.—Rather frequent i i i 
Shs Riveraad os sea sire i ie ata of the Andamans, especially 
4. P, parvifolia, Bth. and Hf —A very rigid spreading shrub 
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armed with decussate tht, sharp spines, all softer 
3 stipules broad, acute ; leaves 
3 flowers minute, greenish white 
glabrous pedicels, or almo i 
clustered in the axils of the lea es 
or almost truncate, short 
corolla-tube hardly 4 a lin 
drupes di 
pea, orange- 
t by abortion a soli- 
y , back, 
sia or in the low forests and shrubberies above 
5. P, =n 8 ages ok rigid straggling shrub, armed 
Site, straight, s arp spines, the youneer branch- 
lets appressed tawny- or rusty-pubescent 3 leaves ai fs oe less ovate, 
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