RUBIACjEM. 



[Cephaianthus. 



Leaves whorled, stipules O.— Herbs. 



Cor-lobes 5 23. Eubia. 



Gor-lobes4 ,' , . . , 24. *}alium. 



- 1. CEFHALANTHUS. Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 23- 



Sbrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or wborled ; stipules short. 

 -Flower's densely crowded in terminal or axillary solitary simple or 

 panicled globose beads mixed with setaceous or paleaceous bracteoles ; 

 peduncles with stipular caducous bracts about the middle. Calyx- 

 ;fw6e obpyramidal ; limb cup-shaped, 4 — 5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla- 

 tube]ongf funnel-shaped; throat glabrous or hairy ; lobes 4, imbricate; 

 Stamens on the month of the corolla ; filaments short ; anthers 2- 

 cuspidate ' at the base. Ovary 2-celled, style jfiliform, stigma 

 capitate or clubbed ; ovules one in each cell, pendulous. Fruit of 

 numerous obpyramidal indehiscent 1-seeded cocci. Seeds pendulous^ 

 with a fungoid aril ; endosperm horny. — Species 6, in Trop. Asia, 

 Africa, and America. 



C. occidentalis, Linn. 8p. PI. 95 ; Havil. in Journ. Linn. 8oc. sossxiii 

 38. C. naucleoides, DC. ; F. B. I. Hi, 24 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 401, 

 Kauclea tetrandra, Boxb.; Fl. Ind. i, 516. — Vern. Jdl Icemha (N. Oudh). 



An evergreen shrub or small tree 6-20 feet. Branches and leaves opposite 

 or ternately^ verticillate, glabrous or somewhat pubescent. Leaves 

 petioled, 3-6 in. long and 1-2 in. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate or acute, entire, rounded or narrowed at tbe base ; nerves promi- 

 nent; stipules acuminate. Peduncles l-^ in. long, simple or, branched, 

 terminal or in the axils of the upper leaves ; bracts small. Heads 

 globose, about f-t in. in'diam., receptacle pubescent. Flowers sessile, 

 white ; bracteoles clavate. Calyx-tube produced beyond the ovary ; lobes 

 short, ovate, with interposed black glands. Corolla-tube up to f in. 

 long, glabrous; lobes 4—5, with a black gland between each at the base. 

 Style slender, about tv^iceas long as the corolla. 



Sub-Himalayan tracts in Pilibhit and in the Kheri district of N. Oudh 

 (Duthie's collector Nos. 22377, 25903, 22381), growing in swampy ground. 

 Flowers in May. Distbib. E. Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, and Upper 

 Burma ; also in China, N. America, the W. Indies, and Brazil, ft 

 is known as " 8wet Kadam " in Bengal and " Pani Kadam" in Assam ; 

 and in N. America it bears the name of " Button-bush". . Watt (in 

 Agri. Ledger No. 6 of 1902, p. 154) says that in A«sam and Manipnr the 

 pith is used like that of the sola plant (^schynomene aapera) in the 

 manufacture of artificial flowers. The Pilibhit and N, Oudh speci- 

 mens are quite glabrous. . .. 



