274 XLV. RUBIACE^. [Randia. 



bpse or ovoid, yellow when ripe, 1-1 J in. long, with a thick, -firm fleshy 

 pericarp ; kernel cartilaginous, 2-celled, the seeds embedded in a quantity 

 of gelatinous pulp, attached to the middle of the partition. R.iongispina, 

 DC. ; W. & A. Prodi. 398 ; Wight. Ic. t. 582 ; is probably the same 

 species. 



Exeeediagly common in most parts of India, extending north-west to the 

 Bias river, and ascending ia the outer Himalaya to 4000 ft. Ceylon, Java, and 

 South China. In Kamaon and Garhwal abundant in some of the Sal forests, 

 also in the Gonda and Baraitch divisions of the Oudh forests. Loses its leaves 

 Feb.- April.; new foliage April- May. Fl. generally March-May; fr. Nov.- 

 March. Very variable in habit and size, from a small stiff shrub to a handsome 

 smaU tree, 15-20 ft. high, with a straight, often ridged and furrowed trunk, 2-4 

 ft. girth, with numerous thin, rigid branches, forming a rounded rather open 

 crown. Bark J in. thick, cinereous or brownish-grey, rough with white elevated 

 dots, wrinkled but not marked with cracks or furrows ; at times qxdte white 

 and smooth. Sapwood large, dirty- white, heartwood li^ht brown, fine- and even- 

 grained, compact, firm, hard, heavy and strong. Liable to warp. Used for 

 agricultural implements, fences, and fuel. Bark of root and stem, and the fruit 

 are used in native medicine. The unripe fruit is bruised, pounded, and used to 

 poison fish ; when ripe it is roasted, and eaten. The leaves are lopped and used 

 as cattle-fodder. Growth slow ; a section of a tree known to be 65 years old, 

 4 in. radius, hollow inside, showed 54 annual rings on 2 in. of the radius near 

 the circumference. 



9. HYPTIANTHBRA, W. & A. Prodr. 



Shrubs, wholly glabrous, with terete branches, and interpetiolar, trian- 

 gular acuminate, persistent stipules. Flowers small,- white, sessile in 

 opposite axillary fascicles, bracteolate. Calyx-tube short, turbinate ; Hmb 

 cleft into 5, somewhat unequal, acuminate, persistent lobes. Corollas-tube 

 short, pilose within ; lobes 4-5, contorted in bud. Anthers 4-5, sessUe on 

 the coroUa-tube. Ovary 2-ceUed ; style short, with 2 large oblong, hirsute 

 branches. Fruit an ovoid or globose, 2-ceUed, 6-10-seeded berry. Seeds 

 imbricate ; embryo small in a horny albumen. 



1. H. stricta, W. & A. Prodr. 399.— Syn. Randia stricta, Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 526. 



Leaves lanceolate, shining, 3-5 in. long, on short petioles ; main lateral 

 nerves arcuate, joined by distinct intramarginal veins. 



Bengal, Oudh forests, common on shady banks of streams. Generally a shrub, 

 with many stems from one root, at times a small tree, 15-20 ft. high, with short 

 erect trunk. Evergreen. Fl. April. 



10. IXORA, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees, mostly glabrous. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, 

 evergreen; stipules interpetiolar. Flowers in trichotomous corymbs. 

 Calyx-tube ovoid, limb short, persistent, 4- rarely 5-dentate. Corolla 

 hypocrateriform ; tube slender, limb of 4, rarely 5 lobes, generally shoi-ili 

 than tube, contorted in bud. Stalnens inserted in the mouth of the cof- 

 oUa, filaments short. Ovary 2-ceUed ; style filiform, with 2 short exserted 



