Ixoni.'] 



60. RUBIACK^. 



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7. I. nigricans, Br. iu Wall. Cat. 6154 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 148 ; Dalz. & 

 Giba Bomb. Fl. 113. Lokhandij kalkura^ M. 



Western Pcuinsnla from the Konkan southwards ; Eastern Peninsula 

 from Peg a to Malacca. Very common in the evergreen forests of North 

 Kauara, also iu the Konkan. Fl. apparently throughout the year. Fruit 

 glabrous, size of a pea. 'Seeds 2, deeply veutrally concave, A large 

 shrub. 



15. I>AVETTA, L. 



Shrubs and small trees. Leaves usually membranous ; stipules 

 deciduous, usually connate into a sheath. Flowers in trichotomous 

 corymbs. Corolla-tube slender, lobes 4-5. O^ary 2-celled, style 

 long exserted ; stigma fusiform or 2-dentate ; ovule 1 ia each cell, 

 attached to a prominent placenta. Fruit a 2-seeded berry. Albumen 

 horny, embryo incurved at the back of the seed. 



Corolla white, tube \ inch. Leaves green when dry,. 1, P. indica. 

 Corolla yellowish, tube more than 1 inch. Leaves 



turning black when dry ... ... 2. P.his^idulcu 



1. P. indica, Linn.; DC. Prod. TV. 490; Fl. Br. L 3. 150 ; Var. 



indica proper ; leaves glabrous. Dalz. & Gibs Bomb. Fl. 1 12 ; Braudis 

 For. Fl. 275 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 134-7. Var. tomenfosa, Roxb. Leaves 

 and cymes tomentose or villous. Brandis For. Fl. 275 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 134-7. P. Brunonisj Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 112. Favati, pappadi,K, j 

 Fapadi, M. 



Throughout India from the Western Himalaya to Burma and south- 

 wards to Ceylon, Malacca and Penang. Common throaghout the presi- 

 dency. Fl. Mch.-May. Fr. R. S. A stout bushy shrub. Gamble 

 describes the wood of P. tomentosa^ as light brown, hard, close-grained 

 Pores extremely small. Med. rays short, numerous, fine and very line. 



2. P. hispidula, W. & A. Prod. 431 ; Fl. Br. L 3. 151 ; P , sipho^ 

 nantha^ Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 112. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 134-8* 



Western Peninsula on the ghdts from the Konkan southwards. In the 

 evergreen forests of the Supa ghats of North Kanara, rare. Fl. May. 

 Fr. R. S. A slender branched shrub. 



16. COFFEA, L. 



Shrubs. Leaves simple, opposite, rarely in whorls of 3 ; stipules 

 broad. Flowers white, in axillary fascicles or cymes. Calyx-tube 

 short with a truncate or dentate limb. Corolla-lobes 4-7, spreading*, 

 twisted in bud. Ovary 2-celled, style bifid at the top, ovule 1 in each 

 cell peltately attached. Fruit with two plano-convex, ventrally 

 grooved seeds. Albumen horny ; cotyledons foliaceous. 



0. arahica.L. Fl. Br. I. 3. 153 ; Brandis For. Fl. 276 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 13-48 ; Dalz. & Gibs Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 41. Coffee. Bou7i, M. ; Kawa, 

 Vei'ii. 



