2 RUBIACE (Sond.) [Burchellia. 
Tribe s. CoFFEACER. Fruit a 2-celled berry. Seeds convex at the back, flat, 
and with a longitudinal furrow in front. Albumen horny.—Trees or shrubs ; very 
rarely herbs. 
IX. Canthium.—Corolla with a short tube, 4-5-lobed, bearded or naked in the 
throat ; wstivation valvate. Style filiform, exserted. Stigma undivided, thick, 
ovato-globose or mitreform. #74 
X. Plectronia.—Corolla short, funnel-shaped, 5§-lobed, bearded or naked in the 
throat. Style short. Stigma bilamellar. 77 
XI. Pavetta. Limb of calyx 4-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, wi long, slender 
tube, and 4-parted limb, imbricate in bud. Style much exserted. 
XII. Grumilea.— Limb of calyx §-toothed. Corolla with a short tube, villous atthe 
throat ; valvate in bud. Stigma bifid. 2/ 
XIII. Kraussia.— Limb of calyx 5-cleft. Corolla funnel-shaped, with a short obconi- 
cal tube, 5-cleft, imbricate in bud. Styleshort. Stigma clavate, striato-lamellate, 
bifid or bidentate, 22 
XIV. Bunburya.—Limb of calyx bilabiate, 6-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
6-lobed, imbricatein bud. Style filiform. Stigma bilamellate, lamells short, acute. 
Tribe 6. Spermacoce#. Fruit nearly dry, with 2-6 pyrene or nuts. Stigma 
bilamellar, or globose, undivided.— Herbs, rarely shrublets. Stipules commonly split 
into several bristles. 
XY. Spermacoce.—Flowers axillary, crowded. Corolla salver or funnel-shaped, with 
2a 
a short tube, naked inside. Capsule 2-celled, nuts divisible into 2 parts from the 
apex, one open, the other closed. 23 
XVI. Pentanisia.— Flowers terminal, capitate-spiked. Corolla very long, naked in- 
side. Capsule bipartible into 2 indehiscent nuts. 24 
XVII. Mitracarpum.— F/owers in axillary and terminal heads. Corolla with a cir- 
cular line of hairs inside. Capsule membranous, circumcised. 75~ 
XVIII. Hydrophylax.—Flowers axillary, solitary or geminate. Stigma roundly 
2-lobed. Fruit dry, corky, angular. 23— 
Tribe 7. ANTHOSPERMEX. Fruit nearly dry, bipartite (rarely fleshy and 2-celled). 
Stigmas 1 or 2, much elongated, hairy. Albumen fieshy.—Small shrubs or herbs. 
Stipules small, 1~-3-toothed. Flowers often dicecious. 76 
XIX. Galopina.—Limb of calyx very minute. Fruit of 2 mericarps ; commissure 
flattish. Stigmas 2.—Large terminal panicle. 
XX. Anthospermum.— Limb of calyx 4-5-toothed. Fruit of 2 mericarps ; commis- 
sure concave. Stigmas 2.—Flowers axillary or subpanicled. 26 
XXI. Carpacoce.—Limb of calyx 4-5-lobed. Fruit subdidymous, 2-seeded, or by 
abortion nearly terete, t-seeded. Stigma 1.—Flowers axillary, solitary, 3% 
XXII. Ambraria.— Fruit spuriously 3-4-celled. Stigmas 2. 33 
Tribe 8. Srentat#. Fruit dry, biparted (a cremocarp), rarely fleshy and 2-celled. ~~ 
— bipartite. Stigmas capitate.—Herbaceous plants, with (spuriously) whorled 
eaves, 
XXIII. Rubia.—Corolla 5-parted. Fruit fleshy. 34 
XXIV. Galium.—Corolla 4-parted. Fruit ay, IT 
TRIBE I.—GARDENIACEAE (Gen. 1.-V.) 
I. BURCHELLIA, R. Brown. 
Calyx-tube obovate ; limb equally 5-cleft beyond the middle, and 
drawn out above the ovarium. Corolla clavately funnel-shaped ; the 
inner surface of the tube glabrous, except a hearded circle near the 
bottom ; throat naked; lobes imbricated and twisted in sstivation. 
Stamens 5, inserted in the middle of the tube ; filaments very short ; 
anthers inclosed. Stigma oblong-clavate, bearing 5 convex crests, and 
a series of tufts of hairs. Berry sub-globose, crowned by the calyx, 
2-celled. Placentas adnate to the dissepiment. Seeds angular, embryo 
slender. DC. 1. c. 4, p. 368. Endl. Gen. n. 3315. 
