156 LXXT. EUBiACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Morinda, 



Var. 1. ciirifolia proper ; calyx-limb ■without a foliaceous lobe. M. citrifolia, lAnii. ; 

 Eoxb. Fl. hid. i. 641 ; Hunter in As. Ees. iv. 35 ; Sam. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xiii. 533 ; 

 W.^-A. Prodr. 419; Wall. Cat. 8418; Dais. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 114; Brand. For. Fl. 

 277 ; Kwz For. Fl. ii. 60, var. 1 ; Sheede ffort. Mai. i. t. 52 ; Gaerin. Friict. i. t. 29. 

 — Truly wild in Malacca, Maingay. 



Vae. 2. bracteata.; stipules more acute, calyx-limb often ■with a lanceolate or spa- 

 thulate white foliaceous lobe sometimes 3 in. long. M. bracteata, Boxb, Hort. Beng. 

 15; Fl. Ind. i. 544; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 534; DC. Prodr. iv. 447; W. Sr 

 A. Prodr. 419 ; Wight III. t. 126 ; Wall. Cat. 8419 ; Thw. Eirnn. 144 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs, 

 Bomb. Fl. 114; Brand. For. Fl. 277. — Wild and cultivated in various parts of India 

 and Ceylon. Not unfrequent in the forests of the Andamans, Kurz, who ascribes more 

 acute stipules to this form and smaller fruit. 



Vae. 3. elliptica ; leaves 6-8 in. elliptic polished acuminate, nerves strong on both 

 surfaces. Tavoy, Gomez, Wall. Cat. 8434. Concan, Stocks. Malacca, Griffith. — This 

 looks intermediate bet-ween angustifolia and citrifolia in foliage. The drupes are par- 

 tially free in the Tavoy specimen. 



2. nx. tinctoria, Roxh. Hort. JBemg. 15 ; Fl. Ind. i. 543 ; leaves usually 

 4-8 in. broadly or narro-wly elliptic acute at both ends, base very rarely cordate 

 glabrous or pubescent or tomentose beneath, or on both surfaces not shining, 

 peduncles solitary or 2-nate leaf-opposed rarely terminal and panicled, flowers 

 5-merous, fruit of many drupes coalescent into a globose or ovoid fleshy head 1 

 in. diam. or less. 



Throughout India from the Sutlej eastwards', and southwards to Ceylon and. 

 Malacoa. — Disteii!. Malay Archipelago. 



Considered by many Indian botanists to be the wild fonn of M. citrifolia; but if 

 M. bracteata is truly wild in India, as is asserted on good authority, it may be safer- 

 to regard tinctoria as a separate plant, characterised by its smaller foliage, which is 

 never shining. The foUffwing are prevalent forms, but are neither constant nor always- 

 recognisable (in a dried state at any rate) from one another and from M. citrifolia. 



Vae. ]. tinctoria proper ; often shrubby, leaves glabrous rarely pubescent beneath, 

 peduncles leaf-opposed. M. tinctoria, Boxb. I. c. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 447 ; W.^A. Prodr. 

 419; Brand. For. Fl. 277. M. aspera, W. # A. Prodr. 420. M. Coreia and nodosa. 

 Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 537 ; DC. I. c. 448. M. leiautha, Kurz in Jonrn. As.. 

 Soc. 1872, ii. 313 ; For. Fl. ii. 59, M. citrifolia, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 220. M. ZoUin- 

 geriana and Teysmanniana, Miq^. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 243, 244. Morinda, Wall. Cat. 

 8430. 



Vak. 2. tomentosa ; leaves tomentose on both surfaces, pedimcles leaf-opposed. M. 

 tomentosa, Hei/ne in Both Nov. Sp. 147 ; DC. I. c. 448 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 420 ; Dais. ^■ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 114; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 60. M. Naudia and Chacuca, Ham. in Trans.. 

 lAnn. Soc. xiii. 536. M. steuophylla, Spr. ; DC. and W. ^ A. II. cc. M. angustifolia, 

 Both Nov. 8p. 147, not of Eo.vb. 



Vae. 3. multiftora ; leaves glabrous or pubescent, peduncles axillary and terminal 

 simple and paniculate. M. multiflora, Boxb. Hort. Beng. 15 ; Fl. hid. i. 546 ; DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 447 ; Brand. For. Fl. 227. 



Vae. 4. aspera ; leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate and branches- 

 uniformly scabrid, stipules broad reflexed cleft to the base into two oblong obtuse- 

 lobes, peduncles leaf-opposed or axillary slender scabrid, corolla pubescent. M. aspera, 

 W. # A. Prodr. 420. Morinda, Wall. Cat. 8429, ex Herb. Wight. , 



Foejia exserta. M. nxserta, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 15 ; Fl. Ind. i. 645 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 447 ; Wall. Cat. 8421 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 419 ; Brand. For. Fl. 276 ; Thw. Enum. 145. 

 and 430 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 59. — Under Eoxburgh's descriptions and the above cita- 

 tions are included various forms of Morinda with exserted anthers, of which soma 

 are referable to citrifolia and others to the varieties of tinctoria ; and as the character 

 of the anthers is sexual, this form must be abandoned even as a variety, as Thwaites- 

 has pointed out. 



3. M. angustifolia, Roxh. Sort. Beng. 15 ; Cor. PL t. 237 ; Fl. Ind, 

 i. 547; glabrous, leaves large elliptic or obovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate: 



