202 LXXT. ETJBiACEJi. (J. D. Hooker.) {^Qaillonia. 



. The Punjab ; dry hilla near Attack, Falconer, Stewart. — Disteib. Nubia, Arabia, 

 Persia. 



A small shrub, with slender, erect, terete, strict, dichotomously forked branches, 

 the lower white. Leaves in distant pairs, ^—1 in., black when dry, scaberulous, 

 mnrgins revolute. Fruit about ^ in. long, of 2 narrowly oblong puberulous cocci 

 surmounted by an erert scarious calyx-limb; segments of limb free or connate, 

 elliptic, acute, white, veined, much longer than the cocci. — The Indian specimens are 

 very imperfect. 



2. Gr. hyinenostepliana, Javh. ^ Spaeh HI. PI. Or. i. 146, t. 79; 

 hoary and scaberulous, leaves linear-oblong with obsolete stipules, floral connate 

 ■with 2-lobed stipules, flowers tertainal solitary and fascicled, fruit with a large 

 orbicular horizontal 5-lobed wing. Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 16. 



Punjab, Fleming. 'WnzuEisTAN, alt. 3500 ft., Stewart. — Distbtb. Arabia, Belu- 

 chistan, Affghanistan. 



A very small shrub, " most foetid when fresh," Stewart, with opposite divaricating 

 strict slender branches. Leaves J-^ in., margin revolute. Fruit of 2 small hispid 

 cocci; the calyx-limb 4— J in. diam., pubescent or glabrate, membranous, reticulately 

 veined. 



Tbise XYI. G-AXiIXiZB. 



89. RUBXA, lann. 



Scabrid hispid or prickly erect diffuse or climbing herbs; stems square, 

 slender. Leaves 4r-8 in a whorl, rarely opposite and stipulate. Flowers small 

 or minute, in axillary and terminal cymes, pedicel jointed with the ovary. 

 Calyx-tube ovoid or globose ; limb 0. Corolla rotate or shortly beU- or funnel- 

 sliaped ; lobes 4^5, valvate. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the coroUa-tube, fila- 

 ments short ; anthers globose or oblong. Ooary 2-celled ; style 2-fld or styles 

 2, stigma capitate ; ovules 1 erect in each cell, attached to the septum. Fruit 

 small, didymoLis, fleshy, or globose by the suppression of a carpel. Seeds sub- 

 erect, adhering to the pericarp, testa membranous; cotyledons broad thin, 

 i-adicle slender inferior. — Distkib. Species about 80, chiefly temperate. 



1. R. cordifolla, Imm.; DC. Prodr, iv. 588; scandent, leaves 4 in a 

 whorl petioled ovate-cordate acute, nerves 3-7 from the base very strong. 

 Wall. Cat. 6209 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 442 ; Dah. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 121 ; Wt. lU. 

 t. 128, Us. f. 1. R. Munjista, Boxb. HoH. Beng. 10 ; Fl. Ind. i. 374 ; BC. I. c. ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 187. R. Mungisth, Bern. Journ. Bot. 1814, 207. R. javana, BC. 

 I. c. R. secunda, Moon Cat. 10. R. alata, Wall, in Boxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 

 1^ Wall. i. 384; Cat. 6208; BC. I. v. R. purpurea, Dorae. m Jacq. Voy. Bot. 

 84, t. 92. R. scandens, Zoll. ^ Morr. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 338. R. ehi- 

 nensis, Regel ^ Maack in Reg. Fl. TTssur. 76, f. 8, t. 1. R. mitis, Miq. in Ann. 

 Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 112. , 



Throughout the hilly districts of India, from the N.W. Himalaya eastwards, 

 ascending to 8000 ft., and southwards to Ceylon and Malacca. — Distrib. N.E. Asia 

 from Dahuria to Japan and Java, Tropical Africa. 



Climbing; root perennial; branches stout, smooth, or more often with the 

 nerves beneath (usually) retrorsely scabrid. Leaves Bmoor.h or scabrid; lower 

 2-4 in. ; petiole 1-3 in., 2 often longer and with larger blades, upper leaves some- 

 times acute at the base, shorter petioled.' Cymes panicled, terminal ; branches tri- 

 chotomous, spreading, with opposite sessile leafy cordate bracts. Flowers minute, 

 5- rarely 4..merous. Corolla-lobes lanceolate, tips incurved. Anthers globose. Fruit 

 J-J- in. diam., didymous or globose. — A very variable plant. The Khasian speci- 

 mens have usually S-nerved leaves, not impressed above ; in Western Peninsula the 

 nerves are 5-7, and deeply impressed. Eastern Himalayan specimens of Griffith's 



