62 RUBIACER. [ Morindopsis. 
MORINDOPSIS, H.f. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx-tube hemispherical or cupular, the 
limb 4-toothed or -lobed, persistent. Corolla shortly bell-shaped, 
Berry elongate, coriaceous, 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds imbricate. 
—Trees, with short persistent stipules. Flowers small, in small 
peduncled heads or rarely the female ones solitary. 
1. M. capillaris, 
all parts quite glabrous and glossy ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, rigid; leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate and elliptically- 
entire or waved, rigidly but thinly coriaceous, glossy and smooth 
n both sides; flowers small, white, sessile or nearly so, several or 
subulate bracts and resting on a 1-2 in. long, stiff, slender or capil- 
lary peduncle upwards. gradually thickened and arising solitary 
from or above the axils of the leaves ; calyx about a line in diameter, 
cup-shaped, 4-toothed, the teeth triangular, ciliolate ; corolla shortly 
salver-shaped, the tube about 14 lin, long, densely villous at the 
throat ; berries cylindrically elongate, 1-14 in, long, tapering at 
both ends, crowned by the calyx-limb, smooth, the numerous imbri- 
cate seeds ee acuminate at both ends, arranged in a single 
Has.—Frequent in the swam forests of P 
Tenasserim.— i. Apr-May —s—S6.— 41), Metin and Martaban down to 
UROPHYLLUM, Jack & Wall, 
Flowers by abortion dioecious or monoecious, rarely perfectl 
hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube ovoid, the limb short, “bellahapedl 
or ernd hipeeen . aa entire. Corolla funnel-shaped, with 
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parted, valvate. Stamens 5-7, th ioe 
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