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LXXIV. RUBIACE^E. 
\Greenia. 
secund sessile, -3 in. long, light green. Capsule globose less than 
■1 in. through, epicarp peeling off. Hab. Dry rocky banks and low 
hills. Pahang River. Malacca, Bukit Naning (Cantley); Selangor, 
Rantau Panjang (Kloss); Bukit Kayu Kapur (Goodenough). 
Negri Sembilan, Linsum; Seremban. Perak, Ulu Bubong (Kunstler), 
Temengoh. Dindings, Lumut. Penang, hill common; Tanjong 
Bunga. Province Wellesley, Bukit Mertajam. Kelantan, Lebir 
River; Chaning. Native names: Landas Payah; Lida Burong 
Besar; Sukam Bulan. 
12 . ALEISANTHIA, Ridl. 
Shrubs, hairy. Leaves white beneath, many-nerved. Stipules 
free lanceolate. Inflorescence axillary of 2 or more racemes with 
distant secund flowers, short pedicelled, small. Calyx-lobes nearly 
free or forming a cup. Corolla-tube short, cylindric; limb above 
campanulate of 5 short lobes (or 6 ) woolly at mouth of tube within. 
Stamens 5 or 6 adnate to corolla included. Style cylindric. Stigma 
globose. Capsule hairy splitting into 2 woody carpels dehiscing 
on the inner face. Seeds small, angular reticulate. Species 2, 
Malay Peninsula. 
Tall shrub; leaves lanceolate, 7 in. long; racemes 4 in. 
long.. • (ri A. sylvatica 
Dwarf bush; leaves obovate, 1 to 2 in. long; inflores¬ 
cence 1 in. long . . . • ■ • . (2) A. rupestris 
(1) A. sylvatica Ridl . Journ. F.M.S. Mus, x. 138. 
Tall shrub about 15 ft, high, hairy. Leaves lanceolate cuspidate- 
acuminate long, narrowed to base, glabrous above, white and hairy 
beneath; nerves 25 pairs, nervules transverse parallel; 7-5 in. 
long, 2*25 in. wide; petioles winged to base. Stipules lanceolate 
cuspidate, *4 in. long. Inflorescence axillary; peduncles *5 ip- 
long, racemes 2, slender, 4 in. long with secund distant short-pedi- 
celled flowers all hairy. Calyx-tube cylindric hairy, limb cam¬ 
panulate, glabrous with 3 short points. Corolla-tube cylindric 
very short, limb campanulate hairy, coriaceous yellow with 5 or 6 
short lobes densely woolly at base, -25 in. wide and long. Stamens 
5 or 6; filaments very short attached to tube; anthers with a 
short appendage, all glabrous. Style cylindric longer than tube. 
Stigma clubbed. Capsule fusiform, -25 in. long, hairy outside. 
Hab. Dry woods on low hill-tops. Kelantan, hill woods Kwala 
Lebir (Ridley). 
(2) A. rupestris Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. x. 138. Xantho- 
phvtum rupestre Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soe. S. Br. 54* P- 44 - 
Small shrub 6 to 8 in. tall. Branches silky. Leaves obovate 
to ovate acuminate acute, both ends coriaceous, glabrous above, 
white-felted beneath; nerves 10 pairs, prominent beneath; 1 to 
2 in. long, *75 to 1 in. wide; petioles -08 in. long. Stipules as 
long, ovate acuminate. Panicles very short scorpioid axillary. 
