LXXIV. RUBIACE2E. 
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persistent. Corolla coriaceous silky, tube cylindric glabrous inside, 
lobes 4 to 5. Stamens as many insert by short filaments in tube. 
Disc small, hairy. Ovary many-celled; ovules one in each cell, 
pendulous; style short, thick, hairy. Stigmas several, linear. 
Fruit ovoid or globose; epicarp fleshy, thin, surrounding 12 to 30 
small elongate pyrenes, i-celled and i-seeded, cohering by their 
sides and forming a stone. Seeds cylindric. Species about 30, 
tropical Asiatic. 
Female flowers solitary on a long peduncle. 
Flowers small. 
Leaves elliptic glabrous, 4 by 2*5 in., thin; 
flowers yellow ..... 
Leaves oblanceolate blunt, stiff, 3 to 6 in. long 
by 2-5 in.; flowers white 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate, coriaceous 4 by 
i*75 in.; midrib hairy beneath 
Leaves elliptic lanceolate coriaceous, pale 
beneath, quite glabrous 
Leaves not pale beneath; midrib hairy 
Leaves hairy beneath, thick 
Leaves and branches long-hairy . 
Flowers large; corolla-tube short, thick. 
Leaves glabrous sub-rhomboid, coriaceous 5 
to 8 in.long ...... 
Female flowers in peduncled cymes. 
Cymes filiform with few branches ; flowers small 
Cymes dense; flowers many rather large . 
(1) T. peduncularis 
(2) T. Finlaysonianus 
(3) T. malaccensis 
(4) T. montanus 
(5) T. oreophilus 
(6) T. laxus 
(7) T. hirsutus 
(8) T. Wrayi 
(9) T. diffusus 
(10) T. Wallichianus 
(1) T. peduncularis Ridl. T. Jambosella King, l.c. 53, not of 
Thwaites. Guettarda? peduncularis Wall. Cat. 6222. 
Small tree. Young parts silky. Leaves coriaceous, quite 
glabrous except the midrib beneath covered with appressed hairs, 
elliptic acuminate at both ends; nerves slender, 5 or 6 pairs; 
2-5 to 4 in. long, 1 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles -3 in. long. Stipules 
lanceolate silky. Male cymes 3- to 12-flowered; peduncles 75 to 
1*5 in. long. Female flowers solitary on peduncles 2 in. long or 
less. Calyx cupular, narrowed to base, lobes ovate, -i in. long. 
Corolla yellow covered with silky hairs, *5 in. long, lobes short. 
Drupe oblong, red, -25 in. long, when dry 4-angled. Hab. Open 
country, common. Singapore, Bajau; Bukit Mandai; Kranji; a 
compact small-leaved form. Johor, Castlewood; Kukub in swampy 
forest, a form with larger, more coriaceous leaves. Malacca, Bukit 
Bruang. Pahang, Kwala Pahang. Selangor, Kwala Lumpur, 
Penang Hill. Distrib. Andamans. 
A variety with white bark and lax branches. Johor, Minyak 
Buku near Batu Pahat. 
(2) T. Finlaysonianus Hook. ill. F.B.I. iii. 127. T. Jambo¬ 
sella var. Finlaysonianus King, l.c. 54. 
Shrub. Leaves fleshy coriaceous glabrous, lanceolate or oblanceo¬ 
late or elliptic blunt, narrowed to the base; nerves 5 pairs, inarching 
well within the margin; 375 to 6 in. long, 1*5 to 3-5 in. wide; 
Fl.M.P., 2. I 
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