62 RUBIACER. 
8. M. umbellata, L. ; Bedd. Syly. Madr, 134-9, 
scandent shrub, all parts glabrous ; stipules sheath-like united, — 
rupturing afterwards ; leaves from elliptically oblong to lanceolate, 
bluntish acuminate, 24-4 in. long, entire, chartaceous, glabrous, 
glossy and conspicuously net-veined on both sides ; flowers small, 
wregularly globular, smooth, the size of a large pea d 
Var. 1, umbellata proper (If. wmbeliata, L.): leaves pale-coloured 
and opaque beneath, the nerves not prominent, i 
2, Jackii (2/. tetrandra, Jack ): leaves glossy on both 
nt. 
ar. 
sides, the net-veination prominent 
Hap.—Var. 2: not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban down to 
Tenasserim, 
9. M. et megy ctlosa, Wall.—An evergreen scandent shrub of the 
habit of hasty all parts quite glabrous ; stipules sheath-like 
hia n 
peduncle arising from the end of the branchlets - 
cal, sulcate, the limb shortly 4-toothed 
Has.—Tenasserim, 
SARCOCEPHALUS, Afz. 
Flowers without bractlets, sessile, 
. °, OF near to, the ba , 2-celled or with 
4 spurious cells above the true 2 cells, at the base capeular-dchioltil 
