Myrmecodia. | LXXV. RUBIACEH. (J. D. Hooker.) 195 
patches of apparently close-set spinules (or bracts?), amongst which the flowers 
nestle. Leaves irregularly scattered, 3 by 1 in., elliptic, subacute, narrowed into a 
petiole 3-1 in.; stipules not represented. Calyx not represented. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, inflated below, 4 erect recurved triangular acute teeth, glabrous without ; tube 
with a ring of hairs within below the stamens. Stamens 4, on the corolla-throat ; 
filaments very short; anthers broadly oblong. Style stout; stigmas 6, or 3 each 2-fid, 
erect. Fruit crowned with the ealyx-limb, narrowly obovoid, “smooth, yellow, 
gooseberry-like,” Wallace; pyrenes 5; these I have examined; they are narrowly 
oblong, coriaceous, and contain 1 erect seed with a membranous testa, fleshy albumen, 
and eylindrie embryo % the length of the seed. cotyledons small, radicle elongate 
inferior.— Whether this is De Candolle's or Blume's or Gaudichaud's plant is doubtful ; 
the latter has intrapetiolar 2-fid stipules connate at the base. Both this and Myr me- 
codia present a most interesting study, both in respect of their growth and structure 
and of their relation to the ants which inhabit them. Good specimens preserved in 
spirits are much wanted. 
TRIBE XIV. PHEDERIEX. 
89. PZEDERIA, Linn. 
Slender twining shrubs, fcetid when bruised; branches terete, flexuous. 
Leaves opposite, rarely whorled in threes, petioled ; stipules intrapetiolar, 
triangular, deciduous. Flowers in axillary and terminal 2-3-chotomously 
branched panicled cymes, bracteolate or not. Calyx-tube ovoid or turbinate ; 
limb 4-5-toothed, persistent. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, pubescent, 
throat glabrous or villous; lobes 4-5, valvate with inflexed crisped margins, 
tip often 3-lobed. -Anthers 4-5, subsessile in the corolla-tube, linear-oblony, 
obtuse. Ovary 2-celled ; stigmas 2, capillary, twisted ; ovules 1, basal, erect in 
each cell. Fruit globose or compressed ; epicarp thin, fragile, shining, separating 
from 2 orbicular or oblong dorsally compressed membranous or coriaceous 
pyrenes. Seeds much dorsally compressed, testa thin adnate to the pyrene ; 
cotyledons large cordate thin, radicle short inferior.—Dr1srRIB. Species 9 or 10, 
in tropical Asia and 1 in Brazil. 
* Fruit much compressed ; pyrenes separating from a filiform carpophore, 
more or less winged. : 
l. P. foetida, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 683; glabrous or nearly so, leaves 
opposite long-petioled ovate or lanceolate, base acute rounded or cordate, cyme- 
branches opposite, calyx-teeth short triangular, fruit broadly elliptic com- 
pressed, pyrenes black with a broad pale wing. Wall. Cat. 6247, excl. E: 
W. & A. Prodr. 424; DC. Prodr. iv. 471; Grif. Notul. iv. 267; Ic. Pl. Asiat. 
t. 479, f. 3; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 139; For. Fl.ii.96. P. ovata 
Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 255. P. sessiliflora, DC. Prodr. 472. 
From the CENTRAL and Eastern HIMALAYA, ascending to 5000 ft., south ward to 
Matacca and westward to Caleutta.—Distris. Malay Archipelago to Borneo (Mauri- 
tius introduced ?). 
Leaves 2-6 by $-2) in.; petiole 4-1 in. Panicle 2.6 in. long, puberulous ; 
branches long in distant pairs, cymose at the extremity; bracts minute, ovate or 
subulate, ciliolate; flowers sessile and pedicelled. Calyx small, tube campanulate. 
Corolla 3—4 in., tomentose. Fruit 3-4 in., polished, crowned by the conical disk and 
minute calyx-teeth. 
Var. microcarpa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soe. Le: panieles very slender, flowers 
more numerous, calyx minute, fruit orbicular in. diam.—Ava at Taongdong, Wail. 
Cat. 6247. 
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2. P. verticillata, Blume Dijd. 968; glabrous, leaves opposite and 3- 
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