RUBIACEAE. 
RUBIACEAE Juss. Gen. 196; DC. in Annal. Mus. IX. 216 et Propr. méd. IT. ed. 168; Juss. in Mém. 
Mus. VI. 365; Ach. Richard Mém. sur les Rubiacées (1829 in 4) et in Mém. Soc. hist. nat. Paris V. 
81; DC. Prodr. IV. 341; Endl. Gen. p. 520; Lindl. Veget. Kingd. TII. ed. 761 (inclusis Galiaceis 
ejusd. l. c. p. 768); Benth. in Hook. Nigerflora 377 et Flora Austral. TII. 899; Benth. et Hook. Gen. 
ll. 7; Le Maout et Decsn. Traité gen. de Bot. 158. 
DICOTYLEDONEAE GAMOPETALAE EPIGYNAE. STAMINA COROLLAE INSERTA, LOBIS COROLLAE 
ISOMERA (AUT RARO PAUCIORA). OVARIUM INFERUM UNI—PLURILOCULARE, CARPIDIIS 2 V. PLURIBUS 
FORMATUM. OVULA VARIE ANATROPA, VARIA ALTITUDINE ANGULO INTERNO LOCULORUM AUT DIS- 
SEPIMENTIS AFFIXA, INTEGUMENTA CUM NUCELLO CONNATA. 
FLorES*) hermaphroditi, rarius unisexuales, saepissime regulares et symmetrici. CALYCIS tubus 
ovario adnatus; limbus superus, obsoletus cupularis v. tubulosus, integer dentatus v. lobatus, interdum 
ampliatus v. lobis 1 v. pluribus foliaceis. COROLLA gamopetala, infundibuliformis hypoeraterimorpha 
campanulata v. rotata, rarius urceolata v. tubulosa, intus glabra pilosa v. villosa; limbus aequalis v. 
rarissime inaequalis v. bilabiatus, lobis valvatis v. varie imbricatis v. stricte contortis et sinistrorsum (ab 
exteriore spectanti) rarissime dextrorsum sese invicem tegentibus. STAMINA corollae lobis isomera, raris- 
sime pauciora, fauci v. tubo inserta, interdum subbasilaria et fere libera, filamentis brevibus elongatis 
v. nullis rarissime monadelphis; ANTHERAE variae, saepius oblongo-lineares, 2-loculares, rimis interioribus 
v. lateralibus rarissime poris dehiscentes, dorsi- v. basifixae, non raro versatiles. Discus ovarium coro- 
nans, annularis pulvinaris hemisphaericus v. conicus, rarius lobatus v. ad glandulas reductus. OVARIUM 
1—10-loculare; STYLUS brevis v. elongatus, simplex v. 2—10-fidus, rarius ad basin usque 2-partitus, 
rami filiformes lineares v. spathulati, undique v. apice v. intus stigmatosi, v. stigmate terminali capitato 
oblongo mitraeformi v. fusiformi laevi sulcato v. alato simplici v. apice 2 — oc-lobo; PLACENTAE septo 
v. angulo interiori loculi affixae v. basilares v. ab apice loculi pendulae, simplices 2-lamellatae v. 2-fidae. 
OVULA in loculis solitaria gemina v. indefinita, saepe numerosissima, superficialia v. placentis crassis im- 
mersa, erecta horizontalia ascendentia v. pendula, anatropa semianatropa v. amphitropa, integumentis 
nucelo adnatis, funiculo nullo v. brevi simplice v. incrassato. FrucTus capsularis baeeatus drupaceus 
v. e coccis dehiscentibus v. indehiscentibus constans, 2—10- (rarissime 1-) locularis. SEMINA forma 
*) Character generalis totius ordinis secund. recentiss. op. Gen. Plant. cel. Benth. et Hook. II. 7. 
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