192 Lxxv. EUBiACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) {luasiamthus-^ 



DOTTBTPTJI, SPECIES. 



L. OBLiQUUS, Thw. Enum. 146 (Mephitidia oligantlia, var. $. obliqua) ; branches 

 slender with scattered strigose hairs, leaves . subseesile ovate or oblong-lanceolate 

 from a rounded or cordate oblique base caudate-acuminate membranous shining 

 above, nerves 5-6 pair very slender hardly distinguishable from the laxly reticulating 

 veins. — Ceylon ; SaHragam district, up to 3000 ft., Gtardner, Thwaites. — The broad 

 leaves -with rounded or cordate bases, and ■wide-spreading nerves of this plant, are 

 so different from any of the many forms of the preceding described species, that I 

 adopt Twaites' opinion of its being distinct. 



Mephitidia, sp.. Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 476, is probably a Psychotria. 



80. SAPZtOSnXA, Blume. 



Shrubs, foetid when bruised, with often subulate bristles at tlie tips of the 

 branches and bases of the peduncles. Leaves opposite or 3-4 whorled, mem- 

 branous ; stipules interpetiolar, usually connate, 1-3-pointed, deciduous. 

 Flowers small, white, axillary or terminal, solitary or fascicled, sessile or oymose 

 and peduncled; bracts and bracteoles minute, often connate. Calyx-tube 

 obconic; limb dilated, 4-6-lobed or -toothed, persistent. Corolla bell- or 

 funnel-shaped, throat villous ; lobes 4-5, broad, obtuse, valvate with inflexed 

 flat or crisped margins. Stamens 4-5 in the corolla-throat, filaments short or j 

 anthers linear or oolong. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, arms 2 short ; ovules- 

 1 basal erect in each cell. Drupe smaU. ; pyrenes 1-2 crustaoeous. Seeds ellip- 

 soid and solitary or 2 and plano-convex, ventral face not grooved, testa mem- 

 branous ; cotyledons small foliaceous, radicle slender inferior. — ^Disteib. Species 

 8, tropical Asiatic and Malayan. 



Sect. I. Eusaprosma. Flowers in small cymes. Anthers subsessUe. 

 Seeds ellipsoid, usually solitary. — Leaves opposite. 



1. S. Indlcum, DaU. in Hook. Kew Journ. iii. 37; glabrous, leaves 

 sessile oWong or elliptic-oblong acuminate base narrowed or rounded, flowers 

 few terminal, calyx-teeth minute triangular. Dah. %■ Oihs. Bomb. Fl. 112. 

 Dysodidendron glomeratum, Oardn. in Cole. Jmirn. Nat. Hist. vii. 3. S. 

 glomeratum, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 16. 



Western Peninsula ; on the Ghats from Bombay southwards, ascending to 

 4000 ft.. 



Branches pale, ultimate compressed. Leaves 3-5 by |-1| in., thin. ; stipules J in., 

 connate, often 3-cuspidate. Flowers shortly pedicelled, with a basal toothed caly- 

 culus. Calyx unequally 4-5-toothed. Corolla J in. long, white. Style shortly 2-fid. 

 Fruit ^-\ in., ellipsoid. Seed solitary, broadly ellipsoid or globose. 



Vae. Gardneri; leaves usually broadly ovate-cordate. Serissa Gardneri, Thui. 

 Enwm. 150. — Ceylon ; forests about Galagama, Thwaites. 



2. S. conslmile, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 29; glabrous, leaves petioled or 

 sessile eEiptic or lanceolate acuminate or caudate, base acute, flowers solitary 

 or few terminal, calyx-teeth lanceolate. Psychotria, Wcdl. Cat. 8351. Oofiea, 

 Wall. Cat. 8450. Rubiacea, WaU. Cat. 8467. 



Khasia Mis., De Silva; Maetaban and Tbnasserim, in dry hill forests, alt. 

 3-5000 ft.. Falconer, Kurz. 



Branches pale, ultimate minutely strigose or glabrate, not compressed. Leaves 

 3-5 by \-\^ in., membranous, pale greenish when dry ; petiole i-f in. ; stipules 

 connate, mouth bristly. Flowers sessile and shortly pedicelled, pedicels with basal 

 bristles. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped ; lobes lanceolate, spreading. Corolla \ in. long. 

 Style subentire. FruM " broadly obovoid, smooth, and seed usually solitary," Kurz. 

 — Some of the Tenasserim specimens have quite sessile leaves and look different, but, 

 having no flowers, it is impossible to say whether they are so specifically. 



