140' Lxxv. EUBiACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [laioro,. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves 7-12 hy 14-3^ in,, brownish -when dry, mem-, 

 brauoug, points long and slender, above often glabrate, beneath hairy chiefly on the 

 15-20 pair of slender nerves, sometimes obscurely contracted above the cordate base 

 (panduriform) ; stipules villous with very long filiform hairy points. Flowers sessile 

 amongst filiform bracteoles. Calyx-teeth very slender. Corolla \ in. diam. ; lobes 

 lanceolate, aeuminiite, i the length of the tube. Filaments subulate. Stigma small. 

 Fruit ellipsoid or globose, ^ in. long, glabrous. 



** Oalyx-teeth longer and broader than the ovary, elliptic oblong or sub- 

 orbicular ; cjTues corymbiform. 



9. X. polyantlia! Wight Ic. t. 1066; robust, glabrous except the villous 

 or pubescent cymes, leaves large sessile or short-petioled obovate elliptic-oblong 

 or -lanceolate acuminate coriaceous, cymes subsessile corymbiform contrapted 

 or open very many-flowered branches robust, calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate very 

 much longer and larger than the ovary, corolla glabrous, tube slender J-IJ in., 

 lobes narrowly obovate obtuse, mouth glabrous. I. corymbosa, Heyne in WalL 

 Cat. 6155. I. grandis, Miq. in Herb. Sohenack. n. 517. 



Westebn Peninsula ; on the Ghats from the Concan to Cochin, Wight, Law, &c. 



Shrubby, branches robust. Leaves 6-12 by 2^5 in. ; pale greenish when dry, 

 narrowed to the short stout petiole; stipules broad with long cuspidate poiuts. 

 Cymes either collected into a globose sessile head or more open and 4 by 5 in. long 

 and broad ; branches suberect, sometimes white witb dense woolly spreading hair ; 

 bracts and bracteoles oblong, acute, membranous, caducous ; flowers sessile. Calyx 

 sometimes J in. long, pubescent, lobes like the bracteoles. Corolla § in. diam., quite 

 glabrous. Filaments flattened. Stigma rather large, with stout recurved arms. 

 Fi-uit not seen. — The bracts and calyx are very different from those of any congener.. 



10. X. King'stonl, Hook. f. ; glabrous, branches and leaves above- 

 shining, leaves petioled elongate oblong or oblanceolate obtusely acuminate 

 membranous, cymes sessile between two small leaves corymbiform contracted 

 dense-flowered, branches short and stout puberulous, calyx-teeth membranous 

 glabrous almost orbicular larger than the ovary, corolla-tube 1-1. J in. very 

 slender, lobes obovate obtuse, mouth naked. 



Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2996). 



Branches as thick as a duck's quill, black, smooth, and polished when dry, inter- 

 nodes long. Leaves 7-12 by 2J-3J in., pale brown when dry, deflexed in flower, 

 erect in the fruit, base acute; nerves slender, 15-20 pair; petiole |- in., black; 

 stipules short, closely appressed, apiculate. Cymes 4 in. diam., very deose-flowered ; 

 bracts and bracteoles broadly elliptic, coriaceoiis, deciduous. Calyx \ in. long, glabrous. 

 Corolla red ?, limb | in. diam. Stigma small, entire or notched. Mlaineiits flattened. 

 Fruit ^ in. long, globose or obliquely ovoid, crowned by the broad caljx-lobes. — The 

 membranous leaves, stout short cyme-branches and the calyx, afford good characters. 

 It is clearly allied to /. acuminata. Mr. Kingston, whose services this very hand- 

 some species commemorates, was for some years an active assistant in the Herbarium, 

 department of Kew. 



11. X. mergruensis, Hooh. f. : glabrous, very robust, leaves large 

 obovate or oblong-obovate abruptly acuminate opaque coriaceous, cymes sessile 

 corj'mbiform globose densely many-flowered excessively branched from the 

 very base, calyx-teeth puberulous elliptic longer than the ovary, corolla-tube, 

 f in. slender, lobes obovate or oblong obtuse, mouth nearly naked. 



Tenasseeim ; Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3003). 



A low shrub; branches stout, cylindric, grey and opaque when dry. Leaves 7-12' 

 by 2^-5 in., pale when dry and quite dull, narrowed into a short stout petiole ; stipules, 

 very short, coriaceous, apiculate. Cymes 3-4 in. diam. ; branches quite hidden by 

 the flowers ; bracts broad, deciduous ; flowers odorous, white or pale pink with a recL 



