60 RUBIACER. [Morinda 
nearly so, chartaceous, on both sides (more especially beneath) scab- 
rously and thinly pubescent; flowers white, rather conspicuous, 
lets; calyx truncate; corolla salver-shaped, glabrous, the tube slender, : 
about ¢ in. long, glabrous at the throat, the lobes ovate-lanceolate. 3 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Feb. 
long — 
pubescent peduncle arising solitary from opposite the alternately 
so. i nd of he = 
j calyx truncate ; corolla funnel-shaped, tomentose, the - 
tube about # in. long, the lobes oblong, rather blunt. 
Seopa — in the mixed dry forests of the Prome district.—FL. ] 
4. M. citrifolia, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 220 (I. bracteata, — 
Roxb.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 134-9) ——Nyaw-kyee.—An evergreen — 
tree (12—15 +3844 12) or a large shrub, all parts glabrous; — 
stipules elliptically obovate to oblong, blunt ; leaves oval to ellip- 
tically ovate, 6-9 j i 
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PASE ed Fas Ge 
Pe fates Vip eat oa es 
acuminate, entire, membranous, glabrous; flowers rather small, 
white, packed into an oblong or irregularly elliptical head ona #1 
In. long glabrous peduncle arising solita om opposite the alter- 
ower flowers in the head often produced into a leafy lanceolate or — 
spatulate-lanceolate appendage; corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous, 
hairy at the throat, the lobes lanceolate, acute ; filaments woolly; 
errles compound, the size of a pullet’s ege or larger, uneq : 
oblong to almost globular, pale greenish white, succulent, glossy. 
Var. 1, citrifolia proper ; stipules blunt ; synearps larger. 
Var. 2, bracteata (/. bracteata, Korb.): stipules usually acute; 
Synearps the size of a bullet or larger, 
Hap.—Var. 2: not unfrequent in th forest; h d ; var. 1: 7 
generally cultivated in native gardens all One Paves tee dee ctay ae 
ReEMarKs,—Wood deep brownish i ined, 
: : e yellow or bright ellow, close-grained, 
aught, tough. Yields a bright yellow or very valuable red dye which is fixed with 
