Slreblosa.} 
LXXIV. RUBIACEiE. 
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Fruit ovoid, hairy. Seed elliptic-ovoid, punctate. Hab, Forests. 
Johor, Gunong Pantai. Pulau Tiuman (Burkill); Dindings, Telok 
Sera. Perak, Temengoh (Ridley). Penang, Balik Pulau. 
(3) S. hirta Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 57, p. 63. 
A foot tall, unbranched, woody below, hairy above. Leaves 
lanceolate acuminate, base narrowed, 4 to 8 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. 
wide; nerves 8 or 9 pairs; above thickly punctate and hairy, 
beneath hairy, the nerves densely so; petioles -5 in. long, hairy. 
Stipules a broad bifid cup with cuspidate tips glabrous. Panicles 
short, dense, *5 in. through, hairy. Bracts lanceolate. Calyx 
campanulate, lobes 5, as long as tube, hairy. Fruit hairy sub- 
globose. Hab . Forests. Perak. Penang. Kelantan, Chaning 
(Ridley). 
59 . LASIANTHUS, Jack. 
Shrubs, rarely small trees, usually hairy. Leaves distichous, 
membranous or thinly (rarely thickly) coriaceous; nerves generally 
elevate beneath with transverse parallel nervules ( Eu-Lasianthus) 
or reticulate, whole plant foetid (M ephitidia). Stipules triangular 
or lanceolate acute. Flowers small, white (rarely white, rarely pink) 
in axillary sessile (or in section Litosanthes ) peduncled fascicled 
cymes. Calyx-tube short with 4 to 5 (rarely 3) long acute lobes. 
Corolla funnel or salver-shaped, throat villous, lobes 4 to 5. 
Stamens 4 to 6, insert on short filaments in throat. Style with 
3 to 9 stigmas; ovules 1 in a cell. Drupe pulpy blue, more rarely 
white or black, globular or obovoid, containing 3 to 9, 3-angled, 
i~seeded pyrenes. Species over 100, tropical Asia, Africa. 
In habit resembling Urophyllum, but more hairy; fruit blue 
(not orange); pyrenes i-seeded, and calyx-lobes long. The fruit 
when dry is often lobed from the form of the pyrenes, when alive 
soft, pulpy and smooth. 
i. Eu-Lasianthus. Flower-heads sessile, not longer than petioles; plants 
usually hairy; nervules conspicuously parallel. 
Heads partly covered by the broad persistent 
stipules. 
Leaves elliptic-oblong, very hairy 
Leaves oblanceolate glabrous above, pubes¬ 
cent beneath; pyrenes 4 acute . 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous 
Heads not covered by stipules; bracts con¬ 
spicuously longer than the 
flowers. 
Outer bracts larger than inner, lanceolate, 
•25 in. long or more. 
Heads - 5 in. wide. 
Bracts uniform, linear; leaves large, 6 to 
7 in. long. 
Tree, heads over 5 in. through; 
pink; leaves coriaceous 
Shrub, heads smaller; flowers 
leaves thin, coriaceous 
flowers 
white ; 
(1) L. scabridus 
(2) L. Griffiths 
(3) L. stipularis 
(4) L. cyanocarpus 
(5) L. rhinocerotis 
(6) L. Ridleyi 
