426 ItUBIACEJE, [Moeinda. 



lobes 4-5, short, valvate. Stamens 5, inserted in the corolla-throat ; 

 ■filaments short, subulate ; anthers obovate-oblong, obtuse. Ovary 

 5-furrowecl, outer coat almost free from the 5-celled inner coat; 

 style filiform, arms 5, linear ; ovules one in each cell, basal, ereot. 

 Cu'psule 1-celled from the absorption ot the septa, 5-valved at the 

 top, 5- (or fewer*) seeded. Seeds triquetrous, outer coat of testa 

 reticulate. — Species 3 or 4, in India, Malaya and China. 



H. suaveolens, Uoxh, Hort. Beng. 15 ; Fl. Ind. i, 544 ; Brand. For. 



Fi. 278 ; F. B. I, in, 197 ; Watt. E. D. ; Kanjildl For. FL 8ch. Circ. 



207 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 425; Collett. Fl. Siml. 231 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb 



i,821. H. propinqtia, bene in Jaquem. Voy.Bot. t. 91.— Vera. Padera* 



•A shiub, 4-12 ft. high, with spreading more or less herbaceus branches. 



Leaves 6-12 in. long, elliptic lanceolate or ovate, acute or acuminate. 



glabrous or pubescent, often rough, rigidly coriaceous ; petiole |-1 



in. Flowers many, sessile or sub-sessile, heads arranged in terminal 



3-ohotomous pubescent panicles, white or blue, fragrant; bracteoles 



minute, subulate. Calyz-teeth 4-5, longer than the ovary, linear or 



subulate, glabrous or hispid, or with gland- tipped processes. Corolla- 



tube ^ in. long, widening upwards, pubescent or woolly outside ; lobes 



acute, incurved at their tips. Stamens more or less exserted according 



to sex. Style included or exserted. Ga'psule ^-^ in., ellipsoid. 



^Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, often gregarious, Blowers from Oct. 

 to Jan. DisTRiB. Trop. and Sub-tropical Himalaya up to 

 5,000 ft. from Kashmir to Bhutan ; also on the Salt range and on the 

 hills of Cent, and S. India from Parasnath as far south as Mysore. 

 It is found in China, but was probably introduced. Often grown as 

 an ornamental shrub in Indian gardens. The flowers are fragrant, 

 but the crushed leaves and young stems have a most unpleasant odour. 



'Allied to the above is Le'ptodermis lanceolata, Wall., a very common 

 Himalayan shrub, extending from Kashmir to Bhutan at elevations 

 between 4,000 and 10,500 ft. It has been seen growing as low down 

 as Sahansoadhara in Dehra Dun, having no doubt been washed down 

 to this place. The crushed leaves and branchlets emit a very dis- 

 agreeable smell similar to that of Hamiltonia. 



20. MORINDA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 155. 



Erect or climbing shrubs or trees, branches terete or 4-gonous. 

 Leaves opposite, rarely in threes ; stipules connate; sheathing. 

 Flowers in axillarj or terminal simple panicled or umbellate peduncled 

 heads, white, more or less connate by the calyces. Calyx-tube short ; 

 limb short or 0. Corolla-tube short or long ; lobes 4-7, coriaceous, 

 valvate in hud. Stamens 4-7, filaments short j anthers linear or 



