Pentapyæis.] ` Got, caemrronncEm. (C. B. Clarke.) 17 
are shorter than the ovary and ovate-subulate. The stipules are entirely absent or 
more or less developed into a small semicircular coriaceous lamina. In the “Genera 
Plantarum,” this species, of which the flower and fruit were then unknown, was 
supposed to be a Pentapyxis on account of the presence of stipules. 
8. PENTA PYXIS, Took. f. 
A woolly erect shrub with solid stems and branches. Leaves opposite, 
distichous, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, sinuate-toothed ; 
stipules very large leafy, orbicular margins recurved, Flowers in axillary 
eduncled or sessile rarely terminal woollen spikes, with short bracts and 
racteoles. Calyx funnel-shaped, subequally 5-cleft, persistent. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, gibbously swollen at the base; limb subequally 5-lobed. Stamens 5, 
inserted on the throat of the corolla. Ovary 5-celled; style slender, stigma 
capitate; ovules many, 2-seriate in each cell. Berry ellipsoid, 5-celled, many- 
seeded. Seeds minute ; testa crustaceous, shining, 
Closely allied to Leycesteria, but differing in the solid branches, calyx, and habit. 
LP. stipulata, Hook. f. Lonicera stipulata, H. Zë T. in Journ, 
Linn. Soc. ii. 165; Gard. Chron. 1858, 7 00, with fig. 
Srxxo« Hrvaraya ; at Darjeeling, alt. 610,000 fou m 
A shrub, 6.8 ft., densely clothed except the leaves above with soft, white wocl. 
Leaves 4-8 by 2-3 in., base rounded, subentire or sinuate-toothed, puberulous above 
or glabrate with deeply impressed nerves.  Stipule 1-3 in. diam., erect or reflexed. 
Heads dense, rarely subspicate ; peduncle very stout ; bracts about equalling the calyx, 
ovate. Flowers $ in. long, woolly, white. Berry hairy, 3 in., pulp thin. Seeds 
ellipsoid.—F lowers sometimes 4-merous. 
Orprr LXXV. RUBIACEIE. (J. D. Hooker.) 
Trees, shrubs or herbs, rarely annual, erect or twining, unarmed or spiny, 
rarely truly prickly. ` Leaves simple, opposite or whorled, quite entire, 
stipulate (except in Galiee). Inflorescence various. Calyx-tube adnate to the 
ovary; limb various. Corolla regular, usually 4-5-lobed, lobes valvate, imbri- 
cate or contorted (to the left as seen from outside). Stamens as many as the 
lobes, inserted on the mouth or tube of the corolla, filaments short or long ; 
anthers 2-celled, usually dorsifixed and dehiscing laterally or in front. Disk 
epigynous, usually annular or cushion-shaped. Ovary wholly inferior, 2-10- 
celled ; style simple or cleft, stigmas various; ovules 1 or more in each cell. 
Fruit. berried, capsular, drupaceous or of dehiscent or indehiscent cocci, 2-10- 
celled. Seeds various, albumen fleshy or horny. Embryo straight or curved ; 
cotyledons flat or semiterete, radicle superior or inferior.— DrsTRIB. Genera 
about 340 aud species 4000, chiefly tropical and subtropical. 
SERIES A. Ovules numerous in each cell (rarely solitary in Cephalanthus and 
a few Hedyotidee). 
TRIBE I. Naucleese. Flowers collected into dense globcs? heads, Corolla 
funnel-shaped ; stigma simple. 
P Ovaries confluent; fruits forming a globose Jleshy mass; corolla-lobes 
— imbricate in bud. 
Ovary 2-celled, ovules numerous . . . . . . . 1. SARCOCEPHALUS. 
` Ovary 4-celled above, 2-celled below, ovules many . . . 2. ANTHOCEPHALUS, 
geb 2-celled, ovules solitary in each cell 3. CEPHALANTHUS. 
Y OL. III. Cc 
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