38 RUBIACER. [ Guettarda, 
cherry, almost. globular, somewhat lobed » glabrescent, crowned by 
the calyx-limb, containing a spuriously 4-6-celled woody putamen. 
Has.—Frequent in the beach jungles and tidal forests along the shores of 
the Andamans.—FI. Apr.—May.—1.—8S,=Aren. Sal, 
branous very deciduous stipules. Flowers axillary, the females with 
small or imperfect stamens, usually solitary or few together, the 
males by 3 or more in the forkings or along the branchings of 
peduncled cymes, 
ing in a 4.3 in. long petiole, 3-5 in. long, entire, shortly acumi- 
nate, thin-coriaceous, beneath pale cloud ccc appressed alcomel 
along the nerves beneath ; flowers small, white, between 2 short 
bractlets, on 1-14 lin, long densely puberulous pedicels and sessile 
in the forks, the males forming a dichotom | 
peduneled cyme in the axils of the leaves, the females solitary on 
peduncles up to an inch long; calyx puberulous, 5-toothed, 
about a line long ; corolla velvety-pubescent, the lobes more than 
aie Se oe, tube, varying m number from 4 to 10 ; berries 
ner nt ut 3 in. long, crowned by the calyx-limb, indis- 
ay i pear Ear in the tropical forests of the Andamans, —Fl. Apr.- 
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