Hypobathrum. | RUBIACER. 51 
cent; leaves from lanceolate and linear-lanceolate to broadly and 
oblong-lanceolate, acute at the base, on a 2-3 lin. long petiole, 3-4 
in. long’, acuminate, entire, thin-coriaceous, glabrous ; flowers small, 
whitish, almost sessile, in dense, small, axillary clusters ; 
glabrous, the teeth lanceolate, acuminate ; corolla pubescent at the 
throat ; stigmas villous; berry globular to ovoid, the size of a pea, 
smooth, crowned by the calyx-limb. 
Has.—Chittagong and Ava.—Fl. Sep.; Fr, Feb. 
2. H.racemosum (Randia racemosa, Roxb.).—An_ evergreen 
bushy shrub, 3-8 ft. high, all parts glabrous ; leaves from oblong- 
lanceolate | to ‘lanceolate, tapering into a 1-2 lin. long petiole, 
shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous ; 
flowers small, white, supported by a bract, almost sessile, arran 
in 2 to 4 rows along a shorter or longer shortly and stoutly pedun- 
cled glabrous rachis arising solitary from the axils of the leaves : 
calyx-teeth 3-angular, acute, nearly a line long; corolla twice 
as long, villous at the throat ; style sparingly pilose ; berries ellip- 
tical to ovoid, at the base contracted into a 1-2 lin. long stalk, the 
size of a pea, smooth, crowned by the minute calyx-limb. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the swamp forests and in somewhat aay places 
of Pegu and Arracan.—Fl. Oct.-Dec.; Fr. Dec.-Apr.—1Xs.—SS.—=AUl, Dil. 
Flowers polygamously dioecious. Calyx-tube oblong, the limb 
cup-shaped, obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped (in 
the males shorter), quite glabrous, 5-lobed, twisted in bud. An- 
glabrous, the limb cupular, persistent ; berries long and slenderly 
peduncled, elliptical, the size of a small pea, glabrous, crowned by 
the shallowly cupular calyx-limb, 
Hab.—Ava hills.—Fl. March. 
