| FLORA CAPENSIS, 
Orper LXXIII. RUBIACEA, Juss 
(By W. Sonper). 
Flowers regular, mostly bisexual, complete. Calyx-tube adhering to 
the ovary; the limb 4~6 lobed or toothed, sometimes obsolete. Corolla 
monopetalous, epigynous, 4-6 lobed, deciduous, either valvate or spi- 
rally-imbricate in estivation. Stamens inserted in the tube of the co- 
. rolla, as many as its lobes, and alternate with them. Ovary inferior, of 
a. two or several cells, crowned with an epigynous disc, and usually with 
the sub-persistent calyx tube ; ovules one or many in each cell ; style 
single, filiform, simple or, in theStellate, bifid ; stigma mostly thickened, 
bifid or bilamellate ; capitate in Stellate; long and hairy in Anthosper- 
mee, Fruit either a capsule, berry, or drupe, or a pair of dry nuts co- 
hering by their faces. Seeds with copious, fleshy, or horny albumen. 
Radicle next the hilum, 
A very large Order, consisting of trees, shrubs, half-shrubs, and minute herbs 
dispersed over the globe, but chiefly abundant in tropical and sub-tropical regions. 
Leaves opposite, simple, quite entire, midribbed, and mostly penninerved. Stipules 
constantly present, interpetiolar, usually small, and connate into a toothed or awned 
lamina ; in the Stellate leafiike and separate. Many important products are derived 
from this Order, as Peruvian Bark from various species of Cinchona and allied genera ; 
: Tpecacuanha from the roots of Cephaelis and others ; Gambir, an intensely astringent 
substance from Nauclea ; and above all Coffee, from the berries of Coffea Arabica. 
The wood of the arborescent kinds is hard, close, and heavy, and that of several 
of the S. African species in use for making yokes, axles, fellies, ploughs, &e. (See 
Pappe, Syiva Capensis, p. 18-19.) 
_ TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. 
* Cells of the fruit many-seeded. 
Tribe 1. Garnpentace®. /rwié indehiscent, fleshy, 2- (rarely by abortion 1-) celled. 
Seeds not winged.—Shrubs. 
-—$,Burehellia.—Uorol/a clayato-infundibuliform, limb short. Stamens about the 
middlebthe tube. FP 9 onge  e ; 
II. Oxyanthus.—Cprei/a with a very long, slender tube. Stamens exserted. Style 
clavate. Fruit berry-like. #7 9 ; ctor ay 
IIL. Stylocoryne.— Corolla salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, with a cylindrical tube. 
- Stigma clavate. Berry dry. 4 , 
Gardenia.— Corolla salver-shaped, with along be ; limb spreading, 5-9-cl 
Stamens in the throat of the tube. Berry fleshy. : 
V. Randia.— Corolla funnel-shaped, with ashort tube. Stigmas 2. Berry nearly dry. 7 
| Tribe 2. HepyoTme®. Fruit dehiscent, capsular, 2-celled. Seeds not winged. 
4 VI. Hedyotis.—Small herbs. “77 * 
** Cells of the fruit 1-seeded, or rarely 2-seeded. 
Tribe 3. GuErTarDAce®. Fruit drupaceous, with 2-10 pyrene (or nuts). Seeds 
terete (without longitudinal furrow).—Shrubs or small trees. 
VII. Vangueria. “/3- 
Tribe 4. ALBERTIEM. Fruit dry, 10-ribbed and furrowed, 2-celled. Seeds convex 
at back, flat in front, without furrow. Adbumen fleshy. Shrub or tree. 
VIII. Alberta — Calyx 5-lobed, 3 lobes small, 2 larger, ear-shaped, much enlarged 
in fruit, “/> 
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