Morinda.) RUBIACER. 61 
4B.— Rather rare in the tropical forests of Martaban down to Tenasserim ; 
frequently cultivated, especially by Karens in their betelnut-gardens.—F, March- 
Apr.—s.—SS.=Metam. 
Remarxs.—Wood yellow when fresh. Bark and wood used as a dye. 
alternately single leaves or from the base of the end-leaf ; calyx 
truncate; corolla glabrous, funnel-shaped, the tube about 2 in. 
long, the lobes oblong, bluntish, with a glabrous throat; berries 
Var. 1, persicefolia proper ; all parts quite glabrous. 
__,.Var. 2, scabra : leaves, ete., more or less scabrous from a minute 
indistinct pubescence. 
AB.—Common in the savannah forests from Ava and Martaban down to 
J onasserim ; var, 2.: in Prome district.—Fl. March-May ; Fr. June.—L.—SS.— 
tM, Wallichii, Kz.—A small evergreen tree (?), all parts 
quite glabrous ; leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong-linear, acuminate 
at both ends, on a $-14 in. long petiole, 3-5 in. long, entire, firmly 
membranous, glabrous, pale-coloured beneath ; flowers rather small, 
waite, by 3 or 4 in small heads forming a terminal glabrous’ stiff- 
peduncled smal] eyme ; calyx truncate, the tube (in bud) only } in. 
long, the lobes as long, oblong-linear, rather blunt, ~ 
A 
®B.—Tenasserim. 
