Leptodermis
(from leptos, slender, and derma, the skin; in reference to the thin bark). ORD. Rubiaceae. A genus comprising three or four species of evergreen branching shrubs, natives of the Himalayan Mountains and Eastern Bengal, with one inhabiting North China. Flowers white or pink, at the apices of the branches or branch-lets, shortly axillary, sessile. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, lanceolate. Branches twiggy, terete. L. lanceolata, the only species yet introduced, is a greenhouse shrub, allied to Hamiltonia (which see for culture).
L. lanceolata (lanceolate). fl. white, scentless, sessile by threes at the ends of the branches; involucre calyciform, of two leaves; corolla funnel-shaped, scabrous. June. l. lanceolate, attenuated, acute, membranous, villous; stipules triangular, villous. Branches quadrangular, downy while young. h. 6ft. Nepaul, 1842.