A 
. lobes less than Wy as long as the tube: anthers 
1262 |». RUBIACEAE 
18. MORINDA [Vaill] L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades rather thin. 
Flowers in capitate cymes, the hypanthia coalescent. Sepals usually 5, minute 
or obsolete. Corolla with a relatively short 
the top of the corolla-tube: anthers linear. 
Drupe united into a fleshy syncarp. —About 
40 species, tropical. 
1. M. Roioc L. Shr ub or vine: leaf-blades 
elliptic A cuneate, 5-10 em. long: flowers 
one synearp 2-3.5 cm. long, yellow.— 
Hammock and oo pen. Fla. and 
the Keys.— All yea 
19. RICHARDIA L. Annual or perennial diffuse herbs. 
herbaceous. Flowers in contracted involucrate cymes. 
Mature carpels separating from each other. [Richardsonia Kunth.]—About 8 
species, in the warm part of Ameriea.—Spr.-fall or all year. 
; s c 5 mm. long; tube about twice as long as the calyx: mature pi en 3-3.5 
cabra 
1. R.s 
Corolla. 3. ri 4 mm. long ; tube E thrice as long as the calyx: 
mature carpels 2-2.5 mm. lon 2. R. brasiliensis. 
R. scabra St. Hil Annual, the stems more or less branched: leaf-blades 
elliptie, arii or piu. 2- 8 em. long: sepals puce e to ovate-lanceolate, 
becoming 2-2.5 mm. long: corolla white; : 
ellipsoid: mature e ellipsoid.—Sand 
soil, ve erie in cult ds, Coastal] Plain, 
la. to and N. a xe in Ind.— (Mez.) 
—Nat. m Trop. Am 
2. R. brasiliensis (Moq.) G 
nial, the branches diffuse: leaf- "blades r ellip- 
5—4 
tic, 1. em. long: sepals ovate to elliptie- 
ovate, becoming abo m. long: corolla 
white; lobes e a as long as the tub 
al: 
huy | and nde pen. Fla. 
fS.A 
20. ERNODEA Sw. Diffuse or vine-like shrubs. Leaf-blades leathery. 
Flowers axillary. Sepals 4-6, narrow. Corolla with a long tube and 4-6 
relatively long lobes. Stamens 4—6: filaments adnate to the top of the corolla- 
tube: anthers narrow. Drupe thin-fleshy.—A bout 6 species, tropical 
—The plants of e following species flower throughout most of the 
: Sepals about one-third as long as the corolla-tube: anthers linear. 1. E. littoralis. 
Sepals about one- -half as long as the corolla-tube: anthers narrowly 
ellipsoid. 2. E. angusta. 
