46 RUBIACER. [ Vebera. 
teeth in the sinuses; corolla appressed -pubescent outside, salver- 
shaped, the tube very little longer than the calyx-tube, inflated near 
the base and inside closed with a ring of hairs; berries elliptically 
ovoid, the size of a nutmeg, tawny-velvety, crowned by the short 
calyx-tube with its persistent leafy lobes, 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical and moister upper mixed forests along 
the base of the Pegu Yomah.—Fl, Apr.-May ; Fr.—C.S.—s.—88,—Sis. All. 
4. BR, exaltata, Griff.—A large tree, 50 ft. hi 
branchlets compressed, rusty-pubescent : sti 
the base, subulate-pointed, 
end of the branchlets, shortly pe 
and bluntish acuminate, almost 
-lanceolate, spreading ; ovary 
2-celled ; berry globular, the size of a small apple, 2 
mb on a conical blunt protuber- 
many-seeded ; seeds compressed angular. 
growing with mangroves,—Fl, Fr. January. 
WEBERA, Schreb, 
Calyx-limb short, truncate or 5-toothed, deciduous. Corolla- 
tube cylindrical ; lobes 5, imbricate and usually twisted. Anthers 
rted, 
vary 2-celled, with several 
ovules in each cell attached to a peltate pl 
often very elongate, the stigma simple or 2-lobed. 
Berry globular to elli s i 
ce ry.—Trees or 
; » with interpetiolar stipules. 
. were usually rath xillary or leaf-opposed, 
simple or corymbose cymes, 
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