184 Lxxv. EUBIACKJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lasiamthus. 



calyx, larger leaves, and less crowded flowers, of which the corolla has dropped. I 

 have seen no specimen of Kurz. 



Sect. III. Nudiflorae. Cymes sessile. Bracts very inconspicuous, minute 

 subulate or 0. 



* Calyx-teeth elongate, lanceolate, rarely large and broad. 



20. Ii. lucidus, Blume Bijd. 997; branches glabrous or minutely strigose, 

 leaves petioled elliptic-ovate-oblong or -lanceolate caudate-acuminate, base acute, 

 nerves 4-6 pair minutely hairy beneath, veins distant sparingly branched, flowers 

 few sessile ebracteate, calyx-teeth lanceolate. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 319 ; Kwrz 

 For. Fl. ii. 30. Mephitidia lucida, DC. Prodr. iv. 463. Mephitidia No. 17, 

 Herh. Ind. Or. H. f. Sf T. 



Kkasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H. ^ T. T., &e. Uppeb Tenasseeim; 

 Tabora (fid. Kwrz). — Distkib. Java. 



branches slender, pale. Leaves 3-4 by 1-1^ in., green when dry, membranous, 

 sometimes rather oblique ; petiole slender, |—|- in., strigose; stipules minute,^ in., 

 triangular, acute, strigose. Mowers 2-3, small, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, 

 calyx-teeth glabrous or strigose. Corolla J in., white ; tube slender, hairy ; lobes 

 hairy within. Drupe ^ in. diam., pale blue, glabrous, smooth, crowned by the calyx- 

 teeth ; pyrenes 4. 



21. Ii. Kookeri, C. B. Clarke mss. ; branches petioles stipules and nerves 

 beneath puberulous or minutely strigose, leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate, base subacute or rounded, margins obscurely waved or 

 crisped, nerves 5 pair, veins sparingly forked, flowers sessile fascicled ebracteate, 

 calyx-teeth lanceolate. Mephitidia No. 18, Sei-b. Ind. Or. H.f. Sr T. 



Khasia Mts., near Churra, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. # T. T., C. B. Clarke. 



Branches pale. Leaves often defiexed, 6-9 by 1-2^ in., pale green when diy, 

 opaque, rigidly membranous ; nerves obliquely arched ; petiole 1-J in. ; stipules J in. 

 Flowers 3-8 in a fascicle ; bracts very minute or 0. , Calyx glabrous or nearly so, 

 teeth erect. Corolla-tube hairy. Drupe ovoid, ^ in. diam., crowned by the calyx-limb 

 and teeth ; pyrenes 6. 



22. Xi. Bluxnianus, Wight in Calc. Jomrn. Nat. Sist. iv. 507 ; glabrous 

 except at the bases of the flowers and tips of the shoots, leaves stoutly petioled 

 elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, base subacute or obtuse, nerves 4-5 pair, 

 veins very slender branched and reticulate, flowers sessile or subsessUe, bracts 

 minute subulate, calyx-teeth lanceolate membranous much longer than the tube. 

 Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 22. 



Teavancoee, at Courtallam, alt. 3500 ft., Wight, Beddome. 



Bratiches slender, pale. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., greenish or brown when dry.stifBy 

 membranous, opaque above, with faint arching nerves ; petiole ^-^ in. ; stipules 

 triangular-lanceolate, ^ in., glabrous or pilose. Flowers few or crowded, on a thick- 

 ened pubescent axis, sometimes very shortly pedicelled ; bracts rarely ^ in., strigose. 

 Calyx \-^ in. long, tube short ; lobes 4-6, narrow, erect. Corolla glabrous or nearly 

 BO, tube hardly equalling the calyx. Ovary " 3-5-celled," Wight. Drwpe not seen. — 

 The calyx is quite peculiar. 



23. Ii, ciliatus, Wight in Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. vi. 509; branches 

 petioles leaves beneath and cymes densely viHously hirsute with spreading hairs, 

 leaves stoutly petioled elliptic-oblong acute or acimiinate coriaceous, base acute, 

 nerves 6-8 pair deeply impressed above, veins beneath strong often forked, bracts 

 obsolete, flowers sessile fascicled 3-4-merous, calyx-teeth broad large. 



NitoHEEKT Mts. ; Sisparah, Wight, &e. 



Branches stout, densely clothed with fulvous or brown hairs. Leaves 6-8 by 1-lf 

 in., yellowish brown when dry, opaque, with glabrous nerves above, margins usually 



