Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 508 ; glabrous, leaves small petioled ovate oblong or elliptic acute acuminate or mucronate, very coriaceous, base rounded, nerves 7-9 spreading, veins closely reticulated, flowers sessile or pedicelled and subracemose on a short stout peduncle, bracts subulate, calyx-teeth subulate. Wight Ic. t. 1032 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. t. xvii. f. 5. Santia venulosa, W. & A. Prodr. 422. Rubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8324, in part (locality of Silhet erroneous), 8459.
Nilgherry Mts., alt. 6-8000 ft.,
common. A very robust leafy much-branched shrub ; branches black when dry. Leaves 1-3.1/2 by 1/2-1 in., reddish-brown when dry, midrib and petiole (1/8-1/6 in.) very stout, nerves prominent on both surfaces ; stipules small, 1/6 in., triangular or narrower. Peduncles longer than the petioles, pedicels hairy. Calyx hirsute, teeth 4-5, erect or recurved. Corolla 1/3 in., yellowish, glabrous without, throat and lobes within villous. Drupe 1/6 in. diam., blue, crowned by the calyx-teeth ; pyrenes 3-5, thick-walled.
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