38 LXX, RUBIACEZ (HIERN). 
XV. SPERMACOCEE. 
Fruit dicoccous, with indehiscent cocci. — _— 
Flowers usually tetramerous. Herbs; stipules multisetose. 70, Dropia. 
Stigma sub-eapitate . 2. 6. ee ee ee 
Flowers pentamerons, Small shrubs; sete of the | 
stipules about 2 or obsolete. Style with 2 short +71. GarLionia. 
linear branches. . 2. . 1. ee ee ee J 
Fruit dicoccous with one or both of the cocci dehiscent. 
Ovary 2-celled. Corolla-lobes 4 or fewer. . 
Calyx-teeth subulate, lanceolate or linear. Flowers 
with several paleaceous intervening bracteoles or 
without bracteoles. 
Fruit dividing into cocci fromthe top. . . . . 72. SpERMAcocE. 
Fruit dividing into coeci from the bottom . 73. HypopEMATIUM. 
Calyx-teeth 8 or 4, round. Flowers immersed in 
paleaceous bracteoles woe ee ee ee 674, Ocropon. 
Ovary 3-celled. Corolla-lobes :sually 5, occasionally 4. 75. Ricuarpia. 
Fruit sub-didymous, bursting transversely across the 
middle. . . .... 2. ee ew ee el ele) 676. MitracarpuM. 
XVI. GALIER. 
Flowers pentamerous. . . . . .. . «ss ~~ 77. Rupta. 
Flowers tetramerous . . . . . 6 ee ew ew el hehe) C8. GALLIUM. 
1. SARCOCEPHALUS, Afzel.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
p. 29. 
Flowers crowded on globose common receptacles, forming compact 
pedunculate globose heads, without intervening bracteoles. Calyx- 
tubes cohering ; teeth 5-6, hairy, jagged at the tip or in some species 
with as many alternating appendages. Corolla narrowly funnel- 
shaped, rather fleshy, glabrous, 5-lobed, imbricated in sstivation, 
caducous. Anthers 5, subsessile, inserted at the mouth of the corolla, 
ovate-oblong. Disk inconspicuous. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, 
exserted, caducous ; stigma oblong or fusiform, thicker than the style, 
glabrous, emarginate or bifid; ovules numerous, anatropous. Syn- 
carpium fleshy. Seeds small, not winged.—Trees or scandent shrubs 
with subterete or obtusely quadrangular branchlets, opposite (or in 
S. Russeggeri very rarely in whorls of three) subcoriaceous leaves, 
interpetiolar caducous stipules, and terminal and axillary heads of 
whitish pale pink or yellowish flowers. 
A smal] genus found also in Tropical Asia, North Australia and Queensland. 
In shape and colour the fruit may be compared toa strawberry, though in flavour it 
resembles an apple; eaten to excess it acts as an emetic. Flowers smell like orange- 
blossoms, Schweinfurth, “ Heart of Africa,” English edition, i. p. 192. 
Calyx-teeth furnished with alternating filiform-clavate appendages 1. 8. esculentus. 
Calycine appendages not developed . oe eo oe ew ew 2 SS. Russegger- 
1. S. esculentus, Afzel. ex Sab.in-Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 442; 
t. 18 (1824). A glabrescent or puberulous tree with long branches or 
often a scandent shrub, 10-25 ft. high or more. Leaves elliptical, 
shortly acuminate, obtusely narrowed or nearly rounded at the base, 
with about 7-8 lateral veins on each side, 2-8. by 1-4 in.; petiole 
