158 Lxxv. EUBiACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) \M.orini(ir 



■blackish-brown and highly polished above, rusty-brown and very opaque beneath, nar- 

 rowed into a slender petiole ; stipules connate, ovate. Pedimcles stout, glabrous or-' 

 pubescent. CoroUa-tttbc \ in., puberulous. Heads 1 in. diam. and under, with few- 

 very large pyrenes. 



7. nX. villosa, Hook. f. ; branclies and leaves beneath hirsute, leaves 

 elliptic-obovate or -lanceolate acuminate opaque and pubescent above, nerves 

 distinct, peduncles terminal umbellate long or short ; drupes confluent. Morinda ? 

 Wall. Cat. 8425. 



Khasia Mts., De Silva ; at the Bor Panee river, J. D. H. ^- T. T. 



A climbiiig shrub. Leaves greenish when dry, 3-4 by I5-I; in., membranous; 

 nerves numerous ; petiole very short ; stipules connate with subulate points. Pedwncles- 

 \-1 in., stout or slender, villous. Heads in flower small. Corolla small, pubescent. 

 Fruit 1 in., pale red. 



DOUBTFCL SPECIES. 



M. Wallichii, Ktirs, For. Fl. 61; a small quite glabrous evergreen tree?, leaves 

 3-5 in. oblong-lanceolate to linear acuminate at both ends pale beneath, petiole 5-I5 

 in., flowers rather smaU white in small heads forming a terminal glabrous stiff- 

 peduncled small cyme, calyx truncate, the tube (in bud) only ^ in. long, lobes as long 

 oblong-linear rather blunt. — Tenasserim, Kurz. — Probably in the above description, 

 copied from Kurz, the tube alluded to and lobes are those of the corolla, which word 

 has been omitted accidentally. 



70. 'R.'EXl'SJiZMJ.Z.A, KoHhals. 



Characters of Morinda, but the terminal Leads few-flowered and paniculate,. 

 ovules peltate, and seeds orbicular thin and much dorsally compressed. — Dis- 

 TKIB. Species 3 or 3, Malayan. 



1. n. speciosa, Hooh. f. in Gen. Plant, ii. 118; quite glabrous, leaver 

 eUiptic-lanoeolate acuminate, Morinda speciosa, Wall. Cat. 8436 ; Kwz For, 

 Fl. ii. 62. 



Tenasserim ; Cheppodong hills, Wallich. Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



A stout evergreen climbing shrub. Leaves 6-9 by 2-2J in., brown or pale green 

 when dry, thinly coriaceous, tapering into a petiole J-1 in. ; stipules free or connate,, 

 short. Inflorescence 1-3 in., erect, quite glabrous ; peduncle rachis and short branches 

 very stout; heads pedicelled, 3-6-flowcred. Calyx-limb short, cupular, truncate. 

 Corolla-tnbc J-| in. ; limb glabrous within, lobes linear-oblong. Fruit f in. diam.,. 

 globose. 



71. DAniNACAMTKUS, Gaertn. 



A. small rigid much-branched shrub covered with slender spines. Leaves- 

 small, subsessile, ovate, acuminate ; stipules minute, 3-cuspidate. Flowers 

 siftall, white, axillary, solitary or in pairs, pedicels sliort, bracteolate. Calyx- 

 tiihe obovoid ; limb 4-6-fid, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, throat villous ; 

 lobes 4-5, triangular-ovate, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-5, on the throat of the 

 corolla ; filaments short, anthers with a broad connective, exserted. Ovary 2-4- 

 celled; style filiform, stigma 2 -4-cleft ; ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous by a 

 broad base from above the middle of the septum. Bi-upe small, globose, with 

 1-4 hard plano-convex pyrenes. Seeds peltate, testa thin, albumen horny; 

 embi-yo minute, radicle inferior. — DisiRiB. Species 1 or 2, East Bengal, China,, 

 and Japan. 



1. D. indicus, GaeHn.f. Fruct. iii. 18, t. 182; BC. Prodr. iv. 473. 

 MisuMi Hitis (Upper Assam), Gnffith. — DiSTnin. Japan. 



Branches slender; spines straight, needle-like. Leaves | in. long in Griffith's- 

 specimens, often longer in Japanese; nerves obscure. Corolla-tube \ in., segments 



