81« RUBIACEA. 



oblong, blunt, unequal ; anthers snbequal ; stigma subentire ; berry subglobose. — Rudg. 

 Guian. t. 40. — Solena, Rudg. P. trinitatis, 1)C. — Stipules variable, oblong or deltoid; 

 corolla-limb in the bud oval-oblong, blunt ; leaves 6"-4", corolla-tube 6"-3", larger lobes 

 6'" long. — Hab. S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad (Sieb.) ; [Panama !, Venezuela !, Guiana !, 

 Brazil]. 



4. RANDIA, L. 



Calyx-limb with 5 (4-6) segments or teeth. Corolla salver-shaped : tube subcylindrical : 

 limb contorted or contorted-imbrieative. Stamens exserted : anthers erect, sessile at the 

 corolla-throat. Stigma 2-fid. Berry 2-celled : seeds of Catesbaa. — Shrubs ; flowers sub- 

 tessile or pedicellate, usually clustered, white in the West Indian species. 



Sect. 1. Oxyceros, DC. — Corolla-limb sinistrorsely contorted: tube cylindrical or 

 gradually enlarged. 



7- R. aeuleata, L. Spines opposite, supra-axillary (or none) ; leaves obovate or ellip- 

 tical, at length leathery, glabrous ; flowers single-ternate, subsessile, lateral or axillary ; calyx- 

 limb shortly campanulate : teeth distant, lanceolate, bluntish, recurved ; corolla-tube sub- 

 cylindrical, internally villous, as long as or twice as long as the ovate-oblong or ovate 

 lobes ; anthers linear ; berry globose (or ovoid). — Leaves l'-3", corolla-tube 2"'-4"' long ; 

 berry 4"'-6'" diam. 



o. Spiny ; leaves obovate-rouudish, blunt, cuneate at the subsessile base, black in drying. 

 — SI. 1. 11./. 4 ; Br. Jam. t. 8./. 1.— Gardenia Randia, Sw.— Mr. March collected a form 

 of this without spines and with ovoid berries. 



p. mitis, L. Usually unarmed; leaves elliptical (or lanceolate-elliptical), pointed, ta- 

 pering into a short petiole, usually larger than in a. — SI. t. 161./. 1. — R. latifolia, Lam. 



Hab. Bahamas !, Swains, (a) ; Jamaica !, all coll. (a, $), common on dry hills ; Antigua!, 

 Nichols. ; Dominica !, Imr. ; [Key West!, Cuba!, Haiti !, S. Thomas !]. 



8. R. ar-mata, DC. Spines in fours below the summit of branchlets ; leaves ovate or 

 elliptical, pointleted, membranaceous, glabrate, puberulous on the nerves beneath; flowers 

 glomerate, terminal ; calyx-limb ^-partite -. segments linear, spreading ; corolla-tube cylin- 

 drical, glabrous at the throat, 4 times as long as the ovate-lanceolate lobes: limb before 

 anthesis subuliform ; berry " ovoid." — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 71. — Gardenia, Sw. Musssenda 

 spinosa, Jacq.— Leaves 3''-2'', calyx-limb 3"'-6'", corolla-tube 12"' long.— Hab. S. Lucia 

 (Sw.); [Martinique; New Granada to Guiana!]. 



Sect. 2. Euclinia, DC. — Corolla-tube long, cylindrical, abruptly dilated at the throat: 

 limb contorted-imbrieative : one lobe exterior. Anthers pointed. 



9. R. Ittousssendse, DC. Unarmed ; leaves lanceolate-elliptical or lanceolate, pubes- 

 cent beneath, membranaceous ; flowers single at the top of reduced branchlets, sessile ; calyx- 

 limb h-fid : lobes distant, subulate-setaceous, erect ; corolla-tube 4-2 times as long as the 

 ovate, pointed lobes, externally pubescent, villous at the throat ; berry glabrate, ovoid. — 

 Jacq. Amer Pict. t. 70. — Mussamda formosa, Jacq.— Leaves l"-3", calyx-limb 2"', corolla- 

 tube 2"-3", berry 1" long.— Hab. S. Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad!, Cr., in savannahs; 

 [Mexico to Guayaquil ! and Guiana !]. 



5. AMAJOUA, Aubl. 



Flowers usually unisexual. Calyx-limb campanulate, deciduous, 6-dentate, or subtrnncate. 

 Corolla salver-shaped ; tube cylindrical : limb sinistrorsely contorted, 6-partite. Stamens 

 included, inserted into the corolla-tube : anthers linear, erect, subsessile. Stigma clavate. 

 Ovary 2-celled, with a thin dissepiment -. cells many-ovulate. Berry dry : cells incompletely 

 subdivided by slight lamellar projections of the endocarp between the 2-serial seeds. — Shrubs ; 

 arched leaf-veius prominulous beneath ; flowers clustered or corymbose, hairy. 



10. A. fagifolia, Desf. Branchlets striate-cylindrical, strigose ; leaves elliptical or 

 obovate, shortly pointleted, glabrous, sericeous on the veins beneath, petioled; cluster* 

 fascicled -terminal, shortly peduncled or subsessile, sericeous : flowers subsessile ; calyx-hmb 

 •tort : teeth minute, setaceous, distant ; corolla-lobes lanceolate, as long aa the tube ; Den 7 

 •void.— Mem. Mus. 6. t. 5.— A. guianensis, Seem. Pmam. (non Desf.).— Leave* 3"-8 , 



