48 RUBIACER, [ Webera, 
apiculate, entire, firmly mem ranous, glabrous, strongly nerved; 
flowers almost sessile, densely crowded into a terminal, almost sessile, 
pubescent cyme; calyx pubescent; berries globular or ovoid, the 
the base, on a glabrous petiole 2-4 lin. long, 3-4 in. long, acute or — 
size of a small pea, on about a line long pedicels, smooth, black, 
crowned by the base of the calyx-limb 
en eh along choungs in the tropical forests of the Pegu Yomah, north g 
Feb. 
of the Kambala toung.—Fl, buds Feb.; Fr 
* %& Stigma 2-lobed.— Usually scandent spiny shrubs. 
4. W. longiflora (Grifithia longiflora, Lamk.).—An evergreen 
large scandent shrub, armed with opposite, sharp, curved spines, all 
parts glabrous; stipules deciduous; leaves from elliptically to — 
tube slightly pubescent within, 2-14 in, long, the lobes about 4 
as long ; berries ovoid-oblong, about 3-3 in. long, tapering in a — 
1-3 lin. long stalk, umbonate and crowned by the circular scar of 
the fallen calyx-limb, glabrous, many-seeded. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans and 
Tenasserim ; also Chittagong.—F. March-May ; Fr. June-July.—s : 1 
4. W. Siamensis (Grifithia Siamensis, Migq.).—An evergreen 
: recurved, sharp spines, — 
all parts glabrous ; stipules deciduous ; leaves oblong to oblong- : 
large scandent shrub, armed with opposite, 
lanceolate, obliquely acute at the base, on a 3-5 lin. long petiole, 
thout a mucro, entire, thin-coria- 
ceous, glabrous; flowers rather small, white, 
pedicelled — flowers m_ the cymbiform-connate bractlets 
€ a 
in. long, quite glabrous, 
her ample, the 
: 23 ; corolla glabrous, the tube about 
2 lin. long, somewhat dilated at the slightly exserted upper end, 
elon 
. the Ron oblong, somewhat longer than the tube ; stigmatic lobes — 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—F], March,—s ; 1, 
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