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dissepiment. Seeds numerous, wingless, nestling on the super- 
ficies of the placentas.—A much-branched, unarmed, glabrous 
shrub or small tree, but there are small permanent spurs, 
which look like spines. Leaves opposite, oval-oblong or ovate, 
acuminated, on short petioles. Stipulas twin on each side, small, 
acute. Flowers 3-4 together at the tops of the branchlets, pe- 
dicellate, and disposed in something like racemes, white, about 
the size of those of Vinca ròsea, and very similar to those of 
Gardenia and Rándia. 
1 H. sasminirtora (D. C. prod. 4. p. 390.). h.S. Native 
of Sierra Leone, where it was collected by Smeathmann, Afze- 
lius, and G. Don. The plant we have seen at Sierra Leone has 
numerous 1-flowered, terminal, and axillary pedicels ; the tube 
of the corolla clothed with yellow hairs; and the segments of 
the corolla hispid. The shrub bears nothing like spurs or spines 
that we recollect. 
Jasmine-flomered Heinsia. Fl. Feb. Clt. 1824. Sh. 5 to 8 ft. 
Cult. See Gardénia, p. 499. for culture and propagation, A 
beautiful shrub, clothed with numerous white flowers. 
RUBIACEA. XL. Menssroria. 
XL. MENESTO'RIA (Menestor was a physiologist cited 
by Theophrastus). Ð. C. prod. 4. p. 390. 
Liy. syst. Pentándria, Monogiynia. Calyx with a globose 
tube, a 5-parted limb : and linear, almost subulate, acute, distant 
segments. Corolla with a long terete tube, 5 oval acute short 
lobes, and an almost naked throat. Anthers 5, oblong, sessile 
within the tube of the corolla. Style filiform; stigma bifid, 
inclosed : lobes linear. Ovarium 2-celled; placentas many- 
seeded, adnate to the dissepiment. Fruit baccate, almost dry, 
areolate at the apex, never crowned, from the lobes of the calyx 
being deciduous. Seeds very small, wingless.— Unarmed shrubs, 
natives of Nipaul. Leaves opposite. Stipulas solitary on each 
side, at length deciduous. Corymbs of flowers terminal. This 
is rather a doubtful genus, differing from Musse’nda in the tube 
of the calyx or ovarium being globose, not turbinate, and in the 
stipulas being solitary on each side, not twin; and from Tocoyéna 
in the limb of the calyx being parted to the base. 
1 M. Tocoyr'na (D.C. prod. 4. p. 390.) leaves obovate, 
obtuse, cuneated at the base, almost sessile, glabrous above, pale 
beneath, and beset with adpressed villi along the nerves. h. 
G. Native of Nipaul. Branches terete. Stipulas broad, short, 
very blunt, membranous. Corymbs terminal, trichotomous, on 
short peduncles ; pedicels puberulous. Corolla 15 lines long, 
puberulous on the outside ; segments ciliated, apiculated, clothed 
with adpressed down on the outside, as well as the tube. Style 
about equal in length to the tube of the corolla ; stigmas 2, 
linear, applied to each other in the dried state. 
Tocoyena-like Menestoria. Shrub 5 to 6 feet. 
2 M. Hame’tum (D. C. 1. e.) leaves oval, acuminated at 
both ends, on long petioles, rather scabrous from scattered hairs 
above, and along the nerves underneath. h.G. Native of 
Nipaul. Branchlets compressed. Leaves along with the pe- 
tioles an inch and more in length. Stipulas ovate, broad, short, 
acutish. Peduncles numerous, spreading, disposed in loose 
cymes, rising from the top of the stem and forks of the branches, 
Corolla 6 lines long, scarcely puberulous. Style very short, in- 
closed, hardly attaining the height of the anthers. 
Hamellia-like Menestoria. Shrub 5 to 6 feet. 
3 M. Mussa’xp# (D. C. 1. c.) leaves ovate, acute, on short 
petioles, pale beneath, and downy on both surfaces ; petioles, 
stipulas and middle nerve of the leaves clothed with rufous 
hairs. h.G. Native of Nipaul. Branches rather hispid and 
rufous. Stipulas ovate. Corymbs dichotomous, with some of 
the flowers sessile and solitary in the forks, and others terminal. 
Calyx hispid; lobes deciduous. Berry ovate-globose, smoothish. 
Mussenda-like Menestoria. Shrub 5 to 6 feet. 
XLI. Hexosrora. 
XLII. Hieroris, XLII. Pomativm. 
4 M.? ricipa (D. C. 1. c.) leaves cuneated, retuse, and mi- 
cronulate, glabrous ; stipulas ovate, acute. h. G. Native of 
Nipaul, at Suembu. Gardénia rígida, Hamilt. ex D. Don, prod. 
fl. nep. p. 138. A much-branched depressed rigid shrub. Seg- 
ments of the calyx subulate. Limb of corolla 5-lobed ; lobes 
attenuated at the apex. 
Stiff Menestoria. Shrub 3 to 4 feet. ; 
Cult. For culture and propagation see Gardénia, p- 499. 
XLI. HELO’SPORA (from coc, helios, the sun, and oropa, 
spora, a seed; in reference to the disposition of the seeds), 
Jack, in Lin. trans. 14. p. 127. t. 4. f. 3. D.C. prod. 4. 
p. 391. i i 
Lin. syst. Tetrándria, Monogynia. Calyx with a globose 
tetragonal tube, and a somewhat campanulate 4-toothed, erect, 
permanent limb. Corolla tubular, much longer than the calycine 
limb, with a naked throat, and 4 oblong spreading lobes, which 
are valvate in æstivation. Anthers 4, linear, inclosed. Style 
4-furrowed, and 4-cleft at the apex; stigmas short, spreading, 
Berry crowned by the calyx, tetragonal, not divided into cells 
inside, but bearing the seeds disposed crosswise, 1n 4 double 
series, immersed in pulp. Seeds linear, curved a little.—A 
smoothish shrub. Leaves opposite, on short petioles, ovate- 
lanceolate. Stipulas deciduous, bearing a row of ciliæ inside. 
Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Brac- 
teoles 2, under each ovarium.—This genus is perhaps allied to 
Guettaérda or Gardenia. | 
1 H. rravr’scens (Jack, 1. c). h. S. Native of Sumatra. 
Leaves 3-5 inches long. Corolla yellowish, 3-4 lines long. 
Yellowish-flowered Helospora. Tree small. 
Cult. For culture and propagation see Gardenia, p. 499. 
XLII. HIPPO'TIS (from irroc hippos, a horse, and ove wtos, _ 
ous otos, an ear; the form of the calyx has been compared to 
the ear of a horse). Ruiz et Pav. prod. p. 33. fl. per. 2. p 
55.t. 201. Juss. mem. mus. 6. p. 396. A. Rich, mem. soc. 
hist. nat. par. 5. p. 255. ; b 
Lin. syst. Pentándria, Monogynia. Calyx with an obovate tube 
and a spath-formed limb, which is cleft on one side, and drawn 
out into a mucronate auricle on the other. Corolla a little a 
than the calyx, funnel-shaped, with a somewhat incurved “4 9 
and a bluntly 5-lobed limb. Stamens 5, inserted in the midd eee 
the tube ; anthers ovate, inclosed. Urceolus 5-crenate, seate 
on the ovarium. Stigma of 2 adpressed lobes. Berry ovate, 
crowned by the calyx, 2-celled. Seeds numerous, man E 
An unarmed villous shrub. Leaves obovate-oblong, arn 
petiolate. Stipulas ovate, acute, caducous, villous on the gee 
side and solitary on each side. Peduncles axillary, hardly otk 
half shorter than the leaves, 3-flowered at the apex. Corolla 
and berries villous, purplish red. j Pers 
1 H. rrirrdra (Ruiz et Pav. l.c.) .S. Native of Per 7 
in forests about Cuchero, Macora, and Marimarchahua. tè 
duncles furnished with small, subulate, deciduous bracteas. 
Calyx reddish purple. Corolla crimson, greenish at the base: 
having the tube yellowish inside. 
Three-flowered Hippotis. Shrub 10 to 12 feet. f 
Cult. For culture and propagation see Gardenia, p. 499. 
XLIII. POMA'TIUM (from pomum, an apple; shape s 
fruit). Gærtn. fil. carp. 3. p. 252. t. 225. f. 10. D. C, prot 
4. p. 391. l a 
Lin. syst. Pentdndria, Monogyjnia. Calyx with a ja af 
globose tube, and a 5-toothed limb; teeth short, obtuse, ect 
duous, leaving only a membranous circle behind. Corolla n ; 
with a terete tube and a 5-parted limb. Anthers ovate, ye 
in the throat of the corolla, inclosed. Stigma bifid, with oblong 
