IvNOSiA.] RUBIACEJS, 42^ 



oblong. Ovary 2- or spuriously 4-celled; style slender, branches 

 long or short ; ovules solitary in each cell. Fruit compressed, 

 formed of the succulent enlarged calyces inclosing many cartilagin- 

 ous or bony 1-seeded pyrenes, which sometimes cohere into a 2-4- 

 celled putamen, rarely of nearly free drupes. Seeds obovoid or 

 reniform, testa membranous, albumen fleshy or horny. — Species 

 40, all tropical. , 



M. tinctoria, "Rexb. Hort. Beng. 15 ; Fl. Ind. % 543, var, tomentosa ; 

 Hook. F. B. I. in, 156 ; Brand. For. Fl. 278 ; Field Sf Gard. Crops\ 

 N.-W. P. (f* Oudh, Hi, 55 to S9 (forma exserta) ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 

 422; Coolie FL.Bomb.i, 614. M.. exseTta,Boxb. Fl. Ind. i^ 545 {in part) / 

 Brand. For. Fl. 277.— Vern, Al ; dch, dcU. 



A small tree with 4-angled tomentose branches. Leaves 4-8 in. long, 

 broadly or narrowly elliptic, acute at hoth ends, tomentose on hoth 

 surfaces, not shining ; petioles z'i in. long, densely tomentose ; 

 stipules often hifid, with narrow acute lobes. Peduncles leaf-opposed 

 or occasionally in the axils of a reduced leaf, tomentose. Flowers 

 in globose heads, 5-merous, white. Calyx § in. long, truncate. Corolla-- 

 tube about 1 in. long, hairy outside : lobes oblong, obtuse or sub- 

 acute. Fruit about 1 in. in diam., composed of many coalescent- 

 drupes. 



This tree is probably wild in the forests of Bundelkhand. Flowers 

 during the hot season. DiSTRiB. ^ Bengal, Cent. Provinces and in the 

 Bombay Presidency. Cultivated in many parts of Bundelkhand, and in 

 the districts of i^'atehpur, and Cawnpore for the sake of the well- 

 known dye 'al) prepared from the bark of the roots.— See Agricul- 

 tural Ledger, Department of Kevenue & Agriculture, Government of 

 India, No. 9 (1895). 



21. KNOXIA, Line; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 128. 



Erect herbs or nndershrubs ; stems terete, or obtusely angled, with 

 2 lines of pubescence. Leaves opposite ; stipules connate with the 

 petiole into an entire or bristly sheath. Flowers dimorphous, pink 

 or lilac, subsessile on the elongating branches of terminal cymes,, 

 rarely spicate. Calyx-tube OToid or didymous teeth 4, minute and 

 subequal, or 1 or 2 elongate, persistent. Corolla tube long, throat 

 villous ; lobes 4. valvate in bud with inflexed tips. Stamens 4, insert- 

 ed within the throat ; anthers linear, exserted or included. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style filiform, stigma included or exserted, 2-lobed ; ovules- 

 1 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit very small, of 2 semi-terete or dorsally 

 compressed indehiscent cocci. Seeds with a thickened funicle, testa 



