LXXIV. RUBIACE^E. 
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Borreria .] 
(6) B. setidens Ridl. Bigelowia setidens Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 
ii. 336. , 
A low simple or diffuse often ascending herb. Branches winged, 
wings often undulate, glabrous altogether except the wings near 
the top which are sometimes ciliate. Whole plant 2 to 8 in. tall, 
sometimes nearly 12 in. wide when branched. Leaves mem¬ 
branous, ovate or lanceolate blunt or sub-acute, backs pale; nerves 
invisible; -3 to *5 in. long, -14 to-*15 in. wide; petioles often-nn. 
long. Heads -2 in. through or less. Flowers white. Calyx 
glabrous, lobes 2, narrow, long acuminate. Corolla very short, 
lobes small ovate, round. Capsule urn-shaped with 2 long recurved 
sepals, glabrous. Seed oblong, smooth. Hab. Common in waste 
ground. Singapore, Tanglin Gardens; Chan Chu Kang; ranjong 
Katong. Johor, Scudai Road 4th mile. Malacca (Griffith), hill 
and town; Ayer Panas (Cantley). Perak, Temengoh. Kelantan, 
Chaning. Distrib. Java. 
67 . KNOXIA, WiUd. 
Erect herbs (or under-shrubs). Leaves usually narrow. Stipules 
connate into a bristly cup. Flowers white or pink, small in 
terminal corymbs. Calyx-tube ovoid, teeth 4, minute. Corolla- 
tube long, throat villous, lobes 4, valvate in bud. Stamens 4, 
insert on throat; anthers linear. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 1 in 
each cell; style filiform. Stigma bilobed. Fruit oblong of 2 
small cocci indehiscent. Species 10, India to Australia. 
(1) K. corymbosa Willd. Sp. PI. i. 582; King, l.c. 57. 
Stem terete or 4-angled, velvety. Leaves membranous linear 
or ovate-lanceolate acuminate both ends hairy; nerves 5 to 9 P ai . rs » 
ascending; 1*5 to 5 in. long, ‘4 1° 1 w^e; petioles *2 to *4 m. 
long. Corymbs 1 in. long, 1*5 in. wide, many-flowered trichotomous, 
hairy. Flowers *05 in. long, pink or white on short pedicels. 
Calyx ovoid, lobes 4, blunt, triangular. Corolla hairy inside. 
Fruit ellipsoid, less than -i in. long. Hab. Rare in pastures or 
open places. Malacca, at Relau, base of Mt. Ophir (Ridley). 
Penang (Wallich). Distrib. Indo-Malaya, Australia. 
Order LXXV. COMPOSITE. 
Herbs, more rarely shrubs and trees, sometimes climbing. 
Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, entire or more or less 
lobed. Flowers small in heads on the dilate top of the peduncle 
(receptacle). Heads surrounded by an involucre of 1 or more series 
of bracts. Flowers all tubular, or outer ones or all ligulate. Ail 
bisexual or outer ones female or neuter. Sepals connate, hniD 
0 or of scales or hairs. Corolla tubular, 5-lobed or lobes connate 
into a strap (ligulate). Stamens 4 to 5; anthers usually connate. 
Fl.M.P., 2. N 
