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Belonophora. | LXX. RUBIACEE (HIERN). 129 
44, BELONOPHORA, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ii. p. 109. 
Calyx small; tube campanulate, 4-bracteolate at base; limb cam- 
panulate, deeply 4—5-lobed ; lobes rounded, ciliolate. Corolla salver- 
shaped ; tube rather slender, gradually and slightly dilated upwards, 
appressedly pubescent ; throat glabrous; limb spreading, 5-partite ; 
segments oblong, nearly as long as the tube, dextrorsely contorted in 
estivation (as seen from the inside). Stamens 5, inserted on the 
corolla-tube, included ; anthers sessile, linear, apiculate, glabrous, fixed 
by the back near the middle. Disk fleshy, cushion-shaped. Ovary 
2-celled; style included, glabrous, deeply branched; branches 2, 
papillose, somewhat diverging, subulate; ovules solitary, pendulous, 
anatropous. Fruit globose, coriaceous, 2-celled, dissepiment thin. 
Seeds solitary, pendulous ; hilum minute, ventral, towards the apex; 
testa firm; albumen horny ; embryo minute, curved, inverted towards 
the apex of the seed ; cotyledons small, cordate ; radicle terete, next 
the hilam.—A glabrous tree with opposite leaves, long subulate taper- 
Pointed deciduous stipules, and fasciculate sessile flowers. 
A monotypic genus. 
_ 1. B. coffeoides, Hook. f. Ic. Pl. 1127 (1878). A tree, 40 feet 
high, with subterete pale branches, somewhat enlarged at the nodes. 
eaves elliptical, acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, 
rather pale, 4-8 by 14-3 in.; lateral veins about 10 pairs; petiole 
t-$ in. ; stipules lanceolate, # in. long. Flowers about 4 in. long. 
racteoles small rounded. Fruit globose, }—3 in. diam. 
Upper Guinea. Island St. Thomas, alt. 3000 ft., Mann! 
45. AULACOCALYX, Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PLii.p 109. 
Calyx oblong, silky on both sides; tube short, 5-sulcate; limb 
-cleft ; teeth subulate, erect. Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped ; tube 
Suky outside ; throat glabrous ; limb spreading, 5-partite; segments 
oblong, dextrorsely contorted (as seen from the inside) in estivation. 
‘amens 5, inserted at the mouth of the corolla, exserted ; anthers 
Sessile, linear, subapiculate, glabrous, fixed by the back near the 
middle, Disk annular. Ovary 2-celled; style exserted, filiform, 
‘paringly hispid below, glabrous and bifid at apex; branches short, 
Spreading, obtuse; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit unknown.—A 
sarub with glabrescent opposite leaves, lanceolate caducous stipules, 
bereits fasciculate bracteolate flowers, lateral and terminating short 
ches, 
A monotypic genus. 
feet, 
sudate-acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, ranging up 
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