126 LXXV. RUBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [Jackia. 
Ovary 2-celled; style capillary, exserted, thickened and hairy in the middle, 
branches 2 short narrow ; ovules 2 in each cell, inserted on the top of a basilar 
erect placenta. Fruit dry, 2-celled, cells 1-seeded. Seeds unknown. 
1l. J. ornata, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 921; Pl. As. 
Rar. t. 293; Cat, 6284; DC. Prodr. W. 021. 
Maracca and Sinaarore, Wallich, &c. 
Branchlets as thick as the middle finger, and all young parts, the petiole, midrib, 
and inflorescence, rufous-tomentose. Leaves 5-18 in.; brown when dry, coriaceous, 
tip rounded, narrowed into the short robust petiole, shining above, hairy beneath or 
glabrate; stipules short, cylindric, coriaceous, bristles 1-11 in. long. Cymes in 
slender peduncles 5-6 in. long; branches slender, spreading, primary opposite with 
sheathing stipular bracts; bracteoles broadly ovate, silky, imbricate. Calyx-lobes 
minute in flower, E in. long, oblong-lanceolate in fruit. Corolla 3 in, villous, 
Trump VII. GUETTARDEE. 
507. GUETTARDA, Linn. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or 3 in a whorl; stipules intra-petiolar, 
deciduous, Flowers secund on the branches of axillary forked peduncled usuall 
opposite cymes.  Calyr-tube short; limb tubular, toothed, usually deciduous. 
Corolla-tube long, cylindric, straight or curved, throat naked ; lobes 4-9, oblong, 
imbricate in bud. Anthers 4-9, subsessile within the tube, linear. Ovary with 
4-9 elongate cells; style filiform, stigma subcapitate; ovules solitary in each 
cell, pendulous, funicle thickened. Drape globose or ovoid, endocarp 4-9-celled, 
and -grooved or -angled, perforated at the top opposite the cells, which are 
often displaced. Seeds pendulous, testa membranous, albumen scanty or 0; 
embryo slender.—Disrris. About 45 species, all but 1 American. 
l. G. speciosa, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 455; leaves broadly obovate base 
obtuse or cordate pubescent beneath, corolla silky. Lamk. Ill. t. 154, f. 2; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 686; Wall. Cat. 6219; W. $ A. Prodr. 422; Wt. Ic. t. 40; 
Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. t. 17, f. 2; Kurz For. FI ii. 37. Cadamba jasmini- 
flora, Sonner, Voy. Ind. i.t. 128. Nietanthes hirsuta, Linn. Sp. PL 8. Jas- 
minum hirsutum, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 905 Rheede Hort. Mal. t. 47, 48. 
Littoral and tidal forests of the Western and Eastern Drstssr An, the ANDAMAN 
IsrAwNDs, and Ceynon.—Disrris, Tropical shores of the old and new world. 
A small evergreen polygamous tree; branchlets stout, short, petioles leaves 
beneath and usually inflorescence pubescent. Leaves 5-10 by 4-7 in., tip acute 
obtuse or rounded, green when dry; petiole 1-1} in.; stipules ovate, pubescent, 
caducous. Cymes usually from the axils of fallen leaves, long-peduncled, with spread- 
ing dichotomous few-flowered branches. Calyx velvety, truncate. Corolla 1-1} in., 
softly pubescent; limb 1 in. diam., segments obovate. Drwpe woody, globose, ob- 
scurely lobed.— Roxburgh observes that he never met with hermaphrodite flowers, 
58.* ANTIRRHÆA, Comm. 
59. TIMONIUS, Rumph. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite; stipules ovate-lanceolate, deciduous. 
Flowers polygamo-diœcious in axillary cymes; A cymes with few or many- 
secund flowers, 9 1—3-flowered, pedicels 9-bracteolate. Calyx-tube short, limb 
* This genus is introduced into the Key (p. 20) because a common Sumatran 
species probably occurs in the Malayan Peninsula, though hitherto unrecorded. 
