Plectronia. | RUBIACER, 37 
rounded at the base, on a slightly pubescent petiole 1-14 lin. long, 
1-1} in. long, acute, entire, firmly membranous, glabrous or slight- 
ly pubescent along the midrib beneath, turning yellowish in dry- 
ing ; flowers minute, white, very shortly pedicelled or almost sessile, 
solitary or a few together in the axils of the leaves ; calyx and 
corolla as in the preceding species, but the latter pilose within the 
tube; stigma apparently mitre-shaped ; drupes the size of a small 
cherry, compressed-globular, crowned by the minute calyx-limb, 
smooth, containing | or 2 obsoletely wrinkled pyrenes rounded on 
the back. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
6. P. angustifolia, Bth. and H.f.—A shrub, armed with straight, 
sharp, opposite spines, all parts glabrous and glossy ; stipules from 
a broad base subulate-acuminate ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, more or 
less rounded at the base, on a 2-3 lin. long slender petiole, bluntish 
caudate-acuminate, 2-3 in. long, entire, thin coriaceous, glabrous 
_ and glossy ; flowers small, white, on a line long glabrous pedicels, 
clustered in the axils of the leaves; calyx glabrous, more than da 
line long, the limb obsoletely sinuate-toothed ; corolla-tube about 4 
a line long, inflated, glabrous ; stigma 2-lobed-capitate ; drupes 
didymous-cordate, compressed, smooth, crowned by the scar of the 
calyx-limb, the size of a pea, containing 2 or byjabortion a solitary 
somewhat tubercled-wrinkled pyrene rounded on the back. 
Has.—Hills of Chittagong.—Fl. March-July. 
GUETTARDA, L. 
the fleshy central column ; style long ; stigma conical or capitate, 
- G, speciosa, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 134-4, t. 17, £. 2.—An 
evergreen tree (25—30 + 10—15 + 3), the shoots pubescent ; stipules 
ovate, deciduous, pubescent ; leaves obovate to broadly obovate and 
elliptical, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, on a densely 
puberulous petiole 4-1 in. long, 6-10 in. long, blunt or almost acute, 
