Grumilea] LXIX, RUBIACER. 497 
pallid-green on both faces, slightly paler beneath, 3 to 5 in. long 
by 2 to 3in. broad; lateral veins 10 to 12 on each side of the 
midrib, inconspicuous; petioles } to 1 in. long; stipules ovate, acute, 
bidentate, puberulous at the back, } in. long, deciduous; flowers 
pentamerous, white, $ in. long when expanded, on short puberu- 
lous pedicels, several together in little clusters arranged in umbel- 
liform or pyramidal-corymbose compound pedunculate terminal 
cymes 1 to 1} in. in diameter; bracts and bracteoles small or 
obsolete ; common peduncle 14 to 2 in, long, rather slender, 
puberulous; calyx campanulate-hemispherical, somewhat com- 
pressed, ;'; in. long, minutely puberulous outside; the limb 
shorter than the ovary, with 5 broadly ovate lobes, glabrous 
inside or very nearly so; corolla minutely pubescent outside ; the 
tube } in. long, straight, glabrous inside except 5 patches of 
whitish hairs about the top making the throat densely hairy ; 
lobes oval-oblong, equalling the tube, puberulous inside, reflexed 
in open flower ; stamens 5, glabrous; anthers ellipsoidal-oblong, 
exserted ; filaments longer than the anthers, inserted about the 
throat of the corolla; disk fleshy, elevated, glabrous; ovary 
fleshy, 2-celled ; cells l-ovulate ; ovules oval, compressed, erect ; 
style glabrous, straight, bilobed at the stigma, equalling the 
corolla-tube. 
Humta.—In the more open forests of Monino; fl. Jan. 1860. 
No. 3193. 
5. G. subsuccosa Hiern, sp. n. 
A small tree, often a robust shrub of 3 or 4 ft. in height but 
then perhaps only young, glabrous nearly throughout ; branches 
sub-terete ; branchlets somewhat compressed towards the extremi- 
ties ; leaves opposite oval or somewhat obovate, cuspidate at the 
apex, more or less wedge-shaped, sometimes very shortly so 
towards the base, thinly and dryly coriaceous, glossy, rather rigid 
in the living state, deep-green above, paler beneath, 4 to 73 in. 
long by 2 to 4 in. broad ; lateral veins 9 to 13 on each side of the 
midrib, slender, spreading at a wide angle, pale beneath ; petioles 
4 to 4 in. long ; stipules broadly ovate, pointed or acute, bidendate 
at the tip, to 3 in. long, puberulous at the back, deciduous ; 
flowers pentamerous, about 4 in. long, on very short puberulous 
pedicels or subsessile. several together, arranged in branched com- 
pound sub-umbelliferous terminal pedunculate minutely puberulous 
cymes 2 to 3 in. in diameter; common peduncle about 4 in. long ; 
bracteoles small, subulate from a broad base, puberulous at the 
back, deciduous ; calyx broadly campanulate, about {; in. long, 
green, puberulous outside; the limb about as long as the ovary, 
glabrous inside, 5-cleft; the lobes broadly ovate, apiculate ; 
corolla glabrous or nearly so, about 4, in. long when expanded, 
campanulate, rather fleshy, whitish-yellow, 5-cleft half way down ; 
the throat densely bearded ; the lobes oval, hooded-apiculate at 
the apex, about as long as the tube, valvate in the bud, indupli- 
cately so at the apex, reflexed at the time of the open flower , 
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