Vrophjllum.] lxxy. eubiacej). (J. D, Hooker.) 99 



spreading pubescence. Leaves 3-4 in., glabrous or pubescent above, base rounded or 

 cordate ; stipules slender, gradually tapering from the base upwards. Cymes J-| in. 

 diam. ; flowers small, subsessile, ^ in. diam. Berries pedicelled, pubescent. — WalUch's 

 TJrophyllwm, 8315, from Singapore, resembles this, but has much larger leaves, 6-8 

 in., narrowed at the base, petioles \ in., and shortly peduncled cymes with glabrous 

 fruit. The specimens are very imperfect. 



6. XT. long'ifolium, Wight in Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. vii. 145, t. 2, f. 1 ; 

 Ic. t. 1165 (Axanthes) ; young branches villous or glabrate, leaves large pe- 

 tioled memDrauous elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, nerves beneath and lanceolate 

 stipules tomentose, cymes sessile with the peduncles and pedicels tomentose, 

 flowers glabrous. U. strigosum, Kwz For. Fl. ii. 63, not of Korthals. 



Tenasserim, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 2940) ; Mergui, Griffith, Kurz. 



Branches slender, obtusely 4-angled, the last intemode usually villous. Leaves 

 6-10 in., hardly caudate at the tip, base acute or rounded, midrib above pubescent, 

 beneath tomentose, as are the petiole and stipules. Bracts conspicuous though small. 

 —Kurz refers this (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877, ii. 161) to U. glabrum, which differs 

 in the glabrous cyme and leaves, and in the Forest Flora to Blume's Axanthes strigosa, 

 a Javanese mountain plant, described by its author and by Miquel as having silky 

 strigose branches, cymes, and nerves beneath, acute calyx-teeth and subcoriaceous 

 leaves, characters wholly different from those of U. longifolium. The Tenasserim 

 form of U. glabrum almost unites that variable species with this. 



7. U. streptopodium, Wull. Cat. 9Q17, partly; branches petioles nerves 

 beneath stipules and cymes thinly appressed-hairy, leaves petioled elliptic- 

 oblong or, lanceolate, stipules linear-lanceolate, cymes sessile, male calyx trun- 

 cate, female 5-toothed, corolla glabrous tubular cleft at the top, style elongate. 

 U. parviflorum, Wall. Cut. 8320. Geniostoma acuminatum, Wall, in Roxh. FL 

 Ind., eel. Careai ^- Wall. ii. 316 ; Cat. 9067. Urophyllum, Wall. Cat. 8316, in 

 part, and 8316 B. 



Malacca and Penancj, Wallich, Griffith (Kew 'DistT:i\i. 2941, 2942), Maingay {S82). 



Whole plant pale blue when dry, and best distinguished by the appressed white 

 hairs on the branches, narrow stipules, toothed female calyx, and form of the corolla ; 

 but I find great difference in the size of the corolla, which is sometimes cleft at the 

 top only,and at others much lower down. — Wailioh's 8316B., from "Herb. Fiulayson" 

 (from Siam, I suppose), has very fine points to the leaves, and large flowers ; his 8320 

 ( U. parviflorum) has slender branches, small narrow leaves and stipules, and minute 

 imperfect flowers ; it may be a different species. 



8. XT. Blumeauum, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 145 (Axanthes); 

 branches slender slightly hairy, leaves petioled eUiptie-lanceolate or oblanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate, petioles and cyme-branches and linear-lanceolate stipules 

 silkily-pubescent, cymes peduncled subumbellate simple or branched lax- 

 flowered, female calyx truncate, corolla glabrous. Timonius? acuminatus. 



Wall. Cat. 6218. U. streptopodium, Wall. Cat. 8317, in part, and U. glabnun, 

 8316, inpai-t, and ? 8315. 



Penang, Barter, Wallich; Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2943); Singapoee, 

 Wallich, Lobb. 



Very closely allied to U. streptopodium, differing in the less silkily hairy branches, 

 peduncled more pubescent cymes with looser flowers, and apparently always truncate 

 male calyx, though of this I am not quite sure. — "Wallich describes the calyx as 

 ' ' hairy without," which I do not find to be the case. The contents of the sheet to which 

 the ticket U. glabrum of Wallich's 8317 is attached, are four specimens of this and one 

 of a non-rubiaceous plant. Wallich's 8315 may be a large state of this, but it is far 

 more robust and in an imperfect state. 



9. IT. villosum, Wall, in Iio.vb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey ^- Wall. ii. 185 ; Cat. 

 8314; branches very stout petioles cymes and nerves beneath densely tomen- 



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