Coffea] LXL RUBIACEJ] 391 



Vern. fihet ra, Haz. Padf'i^a, Hind. Subliimakyan tract and outer hills, from the Punjab 

 to Bhutan abceuding to 5,000 ft., mostly ou dry stony hillsides, often gregarious. ^ Salt 

 rangpj Punjab. Merwara and Mt. Aboo. Behar, Westei^n Peninsula, on the Ghats 

 of the Konkan and North Kanara, on the hills of the Northern Circars, Karnui and 

 Mysore. A small or large shrub, sometimes a small tree, more or less pubescent, 

 branches divaricate, almobt herbaceous. L, rigid, elliptic-lanceolate, blade 6-12, pet. 

 \~1 in. long, sec. n. 10-16 pair, stipules persistent. PL 4-5-merous, blue-lilac or white, 

 fragrant (but, like the leaves, f<j3tid when crushed), in a large terminal thyrsus, con- 

 sisting of tricliotomous compact cymes, bracts, the lower foliaceous, the upi>er subulate. 

 Calyx hairy, teeth linear, persistent, longer than ovary. Corolla pubescent, funnel- 

 shaped, lobes short, spreading. Ovary 5-ceUed, style slender, 5-branched at top. Capsule 

 1-celled, opening at the apex into 5 valves. iSeeds 5 or less, tricxuetrous, testa reticulate 

 on the surface. 



24 LEPTODERMIS, Wall. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 198. 



Shrubs fcBtid when bruisedj 1. opposite, several pairs often approximate on 

 arrested branchlets, stipules small, persistent. Fl. usually 5-meroiis, often 

 unisexual, white or purple, nearly sessile, in compact few-fld. cymes, 2 brac- 

 teoles under each fl., connate into a scarious, 2-euspidate tube. Corolla- tube 

 slender, hairy within, throat glabrous, lobes valvate with inflexed edges. 

 Ovary 5-celled, style filiform, arms 5, linear, ovules erect, basal. Capsule 5- 

 valved to the base, seeds 5, each enveloped in a loose fibrous netted covering. 

 Species 8, Himalaya, China and Japan. 



1. L. lanceolata, Wall. Outer Himalaya, 3-9,000 ft, Kashmir-Bhutan. A small 

 shrub, 1. lanceolate, blade ^-3, jjet. ^-J m. long. PL •v\hite, coi'olla \ in. long, 

 caj)sulp cyliiidric i-| in. 2. L. virgata, Edgew. Salt range. N. W. Himalaya, Hazara 

 to Kulu. North China. A rigid, much branched shrub, 1. linear |-| in. long. 

 3. L. GriffitMi, Khasi hills, Manipur. L. lanceolate, J~l^ in. long, stipules Vith long 

 pungf^nt jjointte. L L. crassifolia, Coll. et Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 67. Shan 

 hilK, Upper Burma 4-5,000 ft. common on grassy slopes. Young shoots more or less 

 hairy, 1. ovate or orbicular, § in. long, fl. sessile, white, corolla J in. long. 



25. PjKDERIA, Linn,: Fl. Brit, Ind. iii. 195. 



Slender twining shrubs, foetid when bruised, stipules deciduous. FL 4-5- 

 merous, in axillary and terminal compound trichotomons cymes, calyx-limb 

 persistent, corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, pubescent, lobes valvate with 

 inflexed crisped edges. Ovary 2-celied, stigmas 2, capillary, twisted, ovules 

 basal, erect. Fr. (in the species here mentioned) flat, a thin shining fragile 

 pericarp, separating from two flat orbicular or elliptic membranous or coriaceous 

 pyrenes. Species 5 or 10, most in tropical Asia. 



1. P. fCBtida, Linn. Gundali^ Hind. ISFepal. Sikkim, from Siligori to 8,000 ft. Assam, 

 Khasi hills. Calcutta, Chittagong. Tenassei-im. Yunnan. Malay Peninsula and 

 Archip. Nearly glabrous, 1. ovate-acuminate or ovate-lanceolate, blade 2-5, pet. |-2 in. 

 long. Cymes pedunculate, 2-6 in. long, branches long, in distant pairs, bracts" often 

 foliaceous, corolla ^~% in. long. Pyrenes black, with a broad pale wing. 2. P. lanu- 

 ginosa, Wall PL As. Ear. 1. 165. Martaban, Tenassexim, often in desei-ted Taungyas. 

 Foot of ' Shan hills, Upper Burma, Yunnan. A large twining shrub, stem as thick 

 as a man^s arm, branchlets, petioles, underside of 1. and cymes densely tomentose, 

 upperside of 1. rough when young with short stiff hairs ; when mature with the raised 

 roots of fallen hairs, 1. cordate acuminate, blade 3-6, pet, 1-3 in. Ph dull purple, 

 crimson within, eoroila 4-| in. long. 



AitcMsonxa rosea, Hemsley, Journ. I^inn. Soc. xix. t. 14. Kuram valley, at 6,000 ft. 

 Baluchistan (var. MHoUii, Stapf .) A gregarious undershrub, growing in dense clumps 

 1-2 ft. high and 6-8 ft. across, kept as dense cushions by the continuous browsing 

 of sheep and goats, L opposite, petiolate, stipules interpetiolar, persistent. PL pink, 

 in congested head-like involucrate cymes. Pr. didymous, separating into 2 cylindrical 

 1-seeded cocci. 



