Acranthera.] lxxt. eubiacej;. (J. D. Hooker.) 9S 



minal usually long-peduncled, calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, corolla tUIous, tube- 

 funnel-shaped, lobes oblong roimded. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 24. 



Ceylon ; central proTince, alt. 3-SOOO ft. on shaded banks, Macrae, &e. 



A Iq-vt herb. Leaves 4-7 by 1^3 in., rugose, black when dry, narrowed into the- 

 petiole. Ch/me and its stout peduncle densely hirsute. Calyx-lobea \-^ in. Corolla 

 1 in. long. Berry hirsute, § in., fusiform. 



5. A. grraxidiflora, Bedd. le. Ft. Ind. Or. t. 25; silkily villous, stem 

 short, leaves elliptic or oblong-obovate tip rounded glabrate above pubescent on 

 the nerves beneath, cymes subterminal long-peduncled silhy, calyx-lobes linear 

 acute or obtuse, corolla villous, tube very long narrowly funnel-shaped, Iobes= 

 oblong rounded. 



TiNNEVEtiT ; in moist forests, alt. 2-3000 ft., Tieddome. 



Yerj near A. seylanica, but the pubescence of the stem and peduncle and cyme is 

 more silky, the leaves glabrous or ■with soft hairs above, quite glabrous beneath 

 between the nerves ; the calyx-lobos are under J in. and quite linear, and the pal& 

 blue corolla-tube Ij in. long. 



6. A . anamalllca, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 25 ; almost stemless, leaves- 

 elongate obovate-oblong tip rounded with scattered bristly hairs above, pubes- 

 cent on the nerves beneath, cymes subsessile silkily pubescent, calyx-lobes short 

 ovate or elliptic spreading, corolla funnel-shaped pubescent, lobes oblong- 

 rounded. 



TmNEVRT.T.Y ; Anamallay Mts., alt. 4500 ft. in moist woods, Beddome. 



Stem ^1 in., with strong roots from the base. Leaves 2-6 by 1 J in., black when 

 dry, narrowed to the base but not into the petiole, which is ^J in., and densely 

 tomentose. Cymes many-flowered, flowers pedicelled. Calyx-lobes ^ in. Corolla 1 in., 

 long, deep blue. 



31. ZiUCXirSA, DC. 



Erect or twining glabrous shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, stipules small or large.. 

 Flowers white, 6-10 together, crowded on peduncled discoid receptacles which 

 are axillary or terminal and solitary or umbelled. Calyx-tube turbinate, limb- 

 annular or cupular, quite entire persistent. CoroUa funnel-shaped, tube broad, 

 throat bearded, lobes 4, coriaceous, valvate in bud. Stamens 4, in the tube of 

 the coroUa, filaments short villous ; anthers narrow, included. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style filiform or thickened below the middle, stigmas 2 linear or spathulate y. 

 ovules numerous, on fleshy peltate placentas. Berry globose or turbinate, 2- 

 celled, many-seeded. Seeds compressed, testa thickly coriaceous smooth;- 

 embryo minute in fleshy albumen. — Disibib. Species 6, Malayan. 



1. Xi. Korlnda, DC. Prodi: iv. 368 ; branches flexuous, leaves elliptic 

 or ovate acute shortly petioled, stipules triangular. Wall. Cat. 8437. Morinda 

 polysperma. Jack in Mai. Misc. i. 14 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 204,. 



Littoral. Singapore, Jack; Malacca, Griffith, Maingay; Penans, Wallich. — 

 DisTEiB. Malay Archipelago. 



Ereet, glabrous or nearly so, branches stout. Leaves 2-3 in., brown -when dry,, 

 nerves slender ; petiole J in. Peduacles solitary in opposite axils, or terminal and 

 often subumbellate. JSeads | in. diam., few-flowered. CoroUa ^ in., densely hairy 

 within. Berries crowded, 6-8 in a head, broadly turbinate, areolate. 



S2. IiEUCOCOSON', Gardn. 



A climbing glabrous epiphytic rooting shrub. Leaves coriaceous ; stipules 

 large, oblong, connate at the base, tip 2-toothed. Floioers white, in solitary 

 terminal peduncled involucrate heads ; involucre bell-shaped with the flowers 



