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RUBIACE2E. 
LaSIANTI-IU 8 ACUMINATUS. (Wight.) Shrubby branches terete pubescent; stipules short subulate pubescent; 
leaves coriaceous shining, except the slightly pubescent nerves, lanceolate acuminate at both ends, mucronately cuspidate at the apex, 2| 
to 41- inches long, § to 1|- inches broad ; flowers axillary subsessile 2—3 together, bracts inconspicuous, calyx hairy 4 cleft, segments 
triangular ; corol tubular 4 cleft glabrous, hairy within, style equalling the tube or slightly exserted stigma 3—5 cleft, ovary 3-5 
celled. (Wight.) 
Pulney Hills, in sholas at Kodinkarnal and elsewhere on the higher ranges, (7,000 feet.) 
PLATE No. XXI. 
IjASIANTHUS BlUMIANUS. (Wight.) Shrubby glabrous branches terete ; stipules short triangular pointed slightly 
hairy ; leaves glabrous short petioled elliptic lanceolate ending in a long acumination ; flowers aggregated few, bracts short subulate hairy, 
calyx limb deeply 4-cleft, divisions lanceolate acute persistent glabrous except a slight tuft of hairs at the apex, corol 4-cleft hairy 
within, stamens 4 subsessile in the throat, ovary 4-celled, style equalling the corol stigma hairy 4-cleft; drupe globose. (Wight.) 
Courtallum Mountains (3,500 feet elevation.) 
PLATE No. XXII. 
AcRANTHERA ANAMALLICA. (Bedd.) Herbaceous, leaves petioled obovato-spathulate attenuated at the base, 
rounded at the apex and furnished with an inconspicuous mucro, up to 7 inches long (of which the petiole is nearly 1 inch) by 2 broad 
near the apex, ciliate and furnished with a few scattered hairs on the upper side, densely hairy on all the veins beneath but glabrous 
in between ; stipules undivided triangular ovate acute, flowers congested towards the apex, peduncles ^ery short, furnished with a few 
small linear bracts and each bearing 3—5 pedicelled flowers, calyx cup-shaped, segments short obovate glabrous within, very hairy on 
the outside, with a small yellow gland in each sinus ; corol infundibuliform about ll inches long, slightly hairy on the outside, 
connectivum scarcely produced beyond the anther cells, style a little longer than the filaments, stigma clavate verrucose ; ovary pseudo- 
bilocular, dissepiments opposite but not joined in the axis, seed very numerous papillose. 
Anamallays : banks of streams in moist woods at about 4,000 feet elevation, not observed elsewhere. A low very showy plant, 
with numerous thick wiry roots, some of which often proceed from the stem above the lower leaves ; flowers of a very deep blue, 
PLATE No. XXIII. 
Ace ANTHER A ZeyLANICA. (Arnt.) Herbaceous, leaves petioled oblongo-obovate obtuse, furnished above with a few 
rather rigid hairs and densely hairy on the veins beneath, calyx tube oblongo-turbinate, segments linear erect not furnished with glands, 
corol densely hairy on the outside about 1 inch long, connectivum apiculate and produced far beyond the anther cells.— Arnt. in Ann. 
of JS 7 at. Hist, iii.p. 21. Endl. Suppl. i. p. 1394. 
Ceylon, on shady banks in the Central Provinces at 3,000 to 5,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. XXIV. 
A CH ANTIIERA GRANDIFLORA. (Bedd.) Herbaceous, leaves petioled obovato-oblong, retuse or sub-mucronate up to 
10—12 inches long (petiole scarcely 1 inch) by 3 broad, furnished with a few scattered weak hairs or nearly glabrous above except the 
midrib, densely villous with matted woolly hairs on the veins beneath ; stipules broad connate ; peduncles axillary and terminal up to 
3 inches long corymbiform, calyx with a pair of bracts near the base of the tube, segments long linear erect without glands, corol, 
infundibuliform about 3 inches long, densely lanate on the outside, connectivum apiculate and produced far beyond the anther cells, 
stigma clavate verrucose sub-bilobed at the apex. 
Tinnevelly Mountains, south of Courtallum in moist forests 2,000 to 3,000 feet elevation—flower pale blue turning white, 
PLATE No. XXV. 
