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RUBIACEÆ. CXI. GUETTARDA. 
+ Species not sufficiently known. 
31 G. Fonrane'su (D. C. prod. 4. p. 458.) stem arborescent ; 
leaves broad-ovate, acuminated, and are, as well as the divari- 
cate branches, villous ; stipulas ovate, acute, deciduous. h. S. 
Native country unknown. G. hirsita, Desf. cat. hort. par. 
ed. 3. p. 404. but not of Pers. Habit of G. argéntea. 
Desfontaines’s Guettarda. Shrub. 
32 G.? UMBELLATA (Spreng. neu entd. 3. p. 48.) leaves ob- 
long, quite glabrous on both surfaces ; branches tubercular, com- 
pressed, dilated at the top; peduncles axillary, aggregate ; 
flowers pentamerous, glabrous. h. S. Native of Brazil. The 
calyx is said to be 5-toothed, and the drupe 6-celled. This 
plant ought probably to be excluded from the order. 
Umbellate-flowered Guettarda. Shrub or tree. 
Cult. For culture and propagation see Hamiltònia, p. 555. 
The species bear very fine leaves and flowers, and are therefore 
worth cultivating. 
CXII. MALA‘NEA (Aublet does not mention the meaning 
of this word). Aubl. guian. 1. p. 106. t. 41. Juss. mem. mus. 6. 
p. 876. D.C. prod. 4. p. 459.—Malanea species, Lam. A. Rich. 
—Cunninghimia species, Schreb. Willd.—Chomélia species, 
Spreng. Scop. 
Lin. syst. Tetréndria, Monogynia. Calyx with a very short 
tube, and a 4-toothed limb. Corolla small, almost rotate, with 
avery short tube, and a 4-lobed spreading limb. Stamens 4, 
with exserted filaments, which are about equal in length to the 
limb of the corolla, and roundish anthers. Drupe dry, thin, 
ovate, crowned by the calyx, containing a 2-celled nut; cells 
1-seeded.—A sarmentose shrub, native of Guiana, climbing 
among bushes. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, acute. Sti- 
pulas oval, obtuse, deciduous, interpetiolar. Peduncles axillary, 
3 times shorter than the leaves, racemosely panicled ; having the 
branches Opposite, the lower ones the longest. Flowers small, 
sessile along the branches, bluish. 
_M. sarmenrosa (Aubl, guian. 1. p.106. t. 41.?) k. S. 
Native of French Guiana, upon trees on the banks of rivers. 
Lam. ill. t. 66. £, 2. Cunninghàmia sarmentòsa, Willd, spec. 1. 
P. 615. Stipulas acute, ex Aubl., and the leaves tomentose be- 
neath; but in the specimens examined the stipulas are obtuse, 
E the leaves are rather villous beneath, and at length glabrous. 
erhaps there are two distinct species, Aublet’s and Patris’s. 
Sarmentose Malanea. Shrub cl. 
Cult. See Pædèria, p. 561. for culture and propagation. 
CXIII. ANTIRHŒ'A (from ayrt, anti, against, and pew, 
reo, to flow; the plant is used to stop hemorrhage in Bourbon). 
omm. mss. Juss. gen. p. 204. mem. mus. 6. p. 377. D. C. 
oss 4. p. 459.—Malanea species, Lam. A. Rich.—Cunning- 
amia species, Schreb.—Guettarda species, Sieb. 
, IN. syst. Tetrandria, Monogynia.. Calyx with an ovate or 
oblong tube, and a short campanulate 4-toothed limb. Corolla 
red 4-cleft, with acutish lobes, which are shorter than the 
St e. Anthers oblong, almost sessile in the throat, not exserted. 
“ugma bifid. Drupe somewhat baccate, ovate or oblong, 
Crowned, containing a 2-celled putamen: cells 1-seeded. Seeds 
terete.—Small trees, natives of the Mauritius. Leaves petiolate, 
oe or 3 in a whorl, oblong or obovate, glabrous, usually 
eset with glandular hairs in the axils of the veins. Stipu- 
a interpetiolar, acute, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, shorter 
SR „the leaves, bifid. Flowers small, whitish, sometimes 
cons from abortion, unilateral, and sessile along the 
PERES of the peduncles. This genus has the inflorescence of 
enostomum, but differs in the parts of the flowers being quater- 
pary a quinary. The flowers are nearly like those of Mala- 
L. I 
CXII. Maranea, 
` Gmel. syst. 1. p. 244. 
CXIII. Antirruaa. CXIV. Srenostomum. 553 
nea, but the inflorescence is different; the tube of the corolla 
is longer, and the anthers almost sessile. 
1 A. verticitya‘ra (D. C. prod. 4. p. 459.) leaves 3 in a 
whorl, obovate-oblong, cuneated at the base, acuminated at the 
apex, glabrous on both surfaces ; flowers hermaphrodite ; drupes 
oblong. h.S. Native of the island of Bourbon, and probably 
of the Mauritius, where it is called bois de Losteau. A. Los- 
tæàna, Comm. in herb. Juss. Malanea verticillata, Lam. ill. t. 
66. f. 1. Desr. in Lam. dict. 3. p. 688. Antirhoe'a Borbdnica, 
Cunninghamia verticillata, Willd. spec. 
1. p. 615, Flowers small, 
white. 
Whorled-leaved Antirhæa. Tree 20 feet? 
2 A. porca (Bory, in litt. ex D.C. prod. 4. p. 459.) leaves 
opposite, and 3 in a whorl, obovate, cuneated at the base, short- 
acuminated, smoothish, beset with glandular pili in the axils of 
the veins ; flowers dioecious from abortion; drupes oblong. k. 
S. Native of the Mauritius. Pet. Th. mel. obs. p. 56. Ma- 
lanea neurépora, Comm. in herb. Thouin. Flowers small, 
whitish. 
Var. B, barbinérvis (D. C. prod. 4. p. 466.) nerves of young 
leaves bearded, and very hairy in the axils. h. S. Native of the 
Mauritius. Guettarda barbinérvis, Sieb. fl. maur, 1. no. 61. 
Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnea. 4. p. 190. 
Var. y, acuminata (D. C. 1. c.) leaves almost smooth, long- 
acuminated. h.S. Native of the Mauritius. Guettárda acu- 
minata. Sieb. fl. maur. 1. no. 60. 
Dioecious Antirhcea. Tree 20 feet? 
3 A. FRANGULA`cEA (D.C. prod. 4. p. 460.) leaves opposite, 
ovate, acutish at the base, and rather acuminated at the apex, 
smoothish, with the axils of the veins glandless; flowers herma- 
phrodite ; drupes ovate. h.S. Native of the Mauritius. Guet- 
tarda frangulacea, Sieb. fl. maur. exsic. 2. no. 59. Drupe one- 
half shorter than in the first species, sometimes 3-celled and 3- 
seeded, which shows its affinity with Guettdrda. Flowers small, 
whitish. 
Frangula-like Antirhoea. Tree. 
Cult. For culture and propagation see Hamiltonia, p. 555. 
Drupe the size of a grain of wheat. 
CXIV. STENO’STOMUM (from ørevoc, stenos, narrow, and 
oropa, stoma, a mouth; in reference to the narrow mouth of the 
corolla). Geertn. fil. carp. 3. p. 69, t, 192. under Stúrmia. D. C. 
prod. 4. p. 460.—Stenostémum, Juss. mem. mus. 6. p. 377.— 
Malanea species, A. Rich, mem. soc. hist. nat. par. 5. p. 202.— 
Laugéria species, Swartz. 
Lin. syst. Pentdndria, Monoginia. Calyx with an ovate 
tube, and a small 5-toothed limb; teeth permanent, conni- 
vent, rather unequal. Corolla funnel-shaped, having the tube a 
little wider at the throat, and a 5-lobed limb : lobes lanceolate, 
bluntish. Anthers 5, oblong, hardly exserted. Stigma 2-lobed. 
Drupe ovate-oblong, crowned, containing a 2-celled putamen. 
Seeds terete, solitary in the cells, inverted. Embryo central, in 
the fleshy albumen.—West Indian trees. Leaves opposite, oval 
or oblong, on short petioles. Stipulas at length deciduous. Pe- 
duncles axillary, divided into a bifid cyme. Flowers small, 
white, sessile and unilateral along the branches of the cyme, and 
one in each fork.—Inflorescence of Antirhe a, but ditfers from 
that genus in the parts of the flowers being quinary; and from 
Guetidrda in the putamen of the fruit being 2-celled, not many 
celled. 
§ 1. Corollas glabrous. 
1 S. tu‘crpum (Geertn, fil. carp, 3. p. 69.) leaves oblong, ob- 
tuse, shining above, glabrous on both surfaces ; teeth of calyx 
short, obtuse. h,S,. Native of the West Indies, as in Jamaica, 
Santa Cruz, St. Lucia, Porto-Rico, Trinidad, &c. Stirmia lù- 
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