152 Lxxv. KUBiACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) IPavetta^ 



6. P. naucleiflora, TVall. Cat. 6171 ; densely putesoent, greenish when^ 

 drj', leaves elliptic caudate-acuminate softly tomentose beneath, cymes opea 

 terminating long axillary naked branches with a pair of leaves at the top,. 

 peduncles and pedicels crowded hirsute with dense white spreading hairs, calyz- 

 teeth subulate, corolla hairy or glabrous, tube f in. twice as long as the lobes. 

 O. Don Gen. Sijst. iii. 676. Ixora naucleiflora, Kurz For. Fl. iii 19. 



Bhotan; banks of the Kollery, alt. 2500 ft., Griffith. Silhet and Penans, 

 Wallich. Tenasseeim, Heifer, Kurz. 



A slinil) or tree. Leaves 4-6 by 1-2 in., with short scattered hairs above, petiole 

 ^-1 in. Cymes sessile, 2-3 in. diam. ; flowers very many, white, much like those of" 

 F. indica, var. tomentosa, of which it is perhaps only a form. Fruit hispid. 



** Cali/.v-teeth elongate, equalling or longer than the ovary. 



7. P. involucrata, Th%v. Enum. 156; glabrous, almost black when 

 dry, leaves elliptic obovate oblong or oblanceolate obtuse or subacute, cymes 

 terminating'axillary naked branches sessile capitate surrounded at the base by 

 broad large sheathing stipular bracts, calyx-teeth equalling or longer than the 

 ovary, corolla-lobes linear exceeding the tube, throat with a ring- of hairs. 

 SecU. Ic. PL Ind. Or. i. 100; Fl. Sylv. For. Man. 134/7. 



Ceylon ; central province, alt. 5-7000 ft., Walker, &e. 



A large shrub ; branches robust, bark yellowish. Leaves 2-3 by 1-1^ in., thinly 

 coriaceous, brown beneath when dry, narrowed into the short petiole. Cymes 1 in. 

 diam., globose or compressed ; branches 2-4 in., terminated usually by a pair of leaves ; 

 stipular bracts pale brown, often cuspidate; flowers sessile, white, densely crowded. 

 Calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, pubescent within. Corolla-tube J in., campanu- 

 late, lobes acuminate. Style stout ; stigma hardly thickened. Fruit smooth. Seeds 

 trbicular, ventrally deeply hollowed. — This has the black look and short flowers of a 

 Webera. 



8. P. Srunonis, Wall. Cat. 6172 ; softly tomentose, greenish when dry, 

 leaves obovate or oblanceolate obtuse or acute softly hirsute beneath, cymes ter- 

 minal sessile contracted densely tomentose, branches 3 very stout short with a 

 fastigate cluster of flowers, stipular bracts large, calyx-teeth lanceolate recurved, 

 corolla glabrous, tube ^ in. twice as long as the lobes, stigma narrowly clavate. 



NiLGHEBKY Hills, Nbton, Wight, G. Thomson. 



This resembles P. indica, var. tomentosa, but the cymes are dense with short stout 

 main branches, the calyx-teeth are entirely different, and the flowers are smaller. 

 One of Wallieh's specimens was received from AVight, but I find none in the Herba-- 

 rium of the latter botanist, where the specimen named Brunonis has the truncate ^ 

 calyx and loose cyme of P. indica, var. tomentosa. 



_ 9._ P. 'Wig'Iitii, Ilooh.f. ; nearly glabrous, pale greenish when dry, leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate acute puberulous beneath with large oblong thickened glands, 

 cymes terminating slender axillary naked branches open much divided glabrate, 

 flowers long-pedicelled, calyx-teeth slender lanceolate acuminate longer than 

 the ovary, corolla glabrous, tube f in. slender 2-3 times as long as the narrow- 

 acute lobes. 



NrLGHEHET Hills, Wight. 



This, but for the very long slender teeth of the calyx, would be put with P. indica^ 

 The slender naked axillary flowering branches are compressed, but not so much as in 

 P. invnltierata, and arc 2-3 in. long ; sometimes they are leafless at the summit, when 

 the inflorescence appears peduncled and axillary. The calyx-teeth are erect and twice- 

 as long as the puberulous ovary, and the styles are very slender and glabrous. I have- 

 seen only one specimen. 



10. P. Gleniei, Thw. mss. ; glabrous or velvety, leaves elliptic-lanceolate 

 or broadly elliptic obtuse or acute, cymes terminating axillary slender leafless^ 



