Anthospermum. | RUBIACEZ (Sond.) 27 
parted, lobes linear or lanceolate, spreading, revolute, valvate in estiva- 
tion, Stamens 4-5, inserted in the lower part of the tube. Anthers 
versatile, exserted. Styles 2, mostly very short, rarely connate; stigmas 
2, very long, hairy. Fruit composed of 2, easily separable, indehiscent, 
r-seeded mericarps, which are a little compressed at the raphe, and joined 
together by a concave commissure. Seeds erect, aflixed at the base 
Embryo dorsal, erect. Albumen subcartilaginous, Cruse, Dissert. Rubiac. 
Cap. p. 7, t. 1, f. 1, 2. Linn. 6, p. 4. DC. Prod. 4, p. 579. 
Small shrubs or herbs. Stems branched. Leaves opposite or ternately verticillate, 
linear or lanceolate, rarely ovate or oblong, coriaceous. Stipules adhering to the 
petioles at the base, drawn out into a single tooth, rarely into 2 or 3 teeth in the 
middle. Flowers axillary, sessile, rarely panicled, small, with 2-3 bracts at the base 
of the ovary, dioecious or polygamous or hermaphrodite. Name from avéos, a flower, 
and omepua, a seed. 
1. Flowers dioecious, axillary, subsessile (1-11). 
Stipules simple (1-9). 
Flowers pentandrous : 
Lvs. whorled, linear-lanceolate, ciliated ... (7) Bergianum, 
Lvs. opposite, lanceolate, ciliatedwhenyoung (9) hirtum. 
Flowers tetrandrous : 
Branches and leaves hirsute : 
Stem procumbent; lvs. lenger than inter- oe 
nodes, spreading (5) hispidulum. 
Stem erect ; lvs. shorter than internodes, 
erect-incurved ... (6) 
Branches minutely downy or glabrous : 
Lys. elliptical, ovate or oblong... ... .... (8) Dregei. 
Lys. linear or lanceolate. : 
Fruit sharply 3-ribbed ... (3) tricostatum. 
Fruit smooth or obsoletely ribbed. 
Stem rooting at the nodes... .... (2) prostratum. 
Stem not rooting. ee 
Fruit crowned by calyx-teeth (1) Zthiopicum. 
Fruit destitute of calyx-teeth (4) ciliare. 
Stipules 2-4-parted (10-11). 
Lys. lanceolate, 1-14 inch long... (10) lanceolatum. 
Lys. ovate or ovato-anceolate, 4-6 lines long .. (11) hedyotideum. 
2, Flowers dioecious, panic . (42) paniculatum. 
3. Flowers Pan ay ee polygamous (13-18). 
Fruit crowned by one leafy calycine .. (13) ealycophyllum. 
Fruit with or without minute Clyne ; ees 
Fruit glabrous : 
Lys. erect, linear-lanceolate, bluntish ; an- . 
thers oblong . (14) pumilum. 
Lys. spreading, ‘linear- lanceolate, ‘acute ; : _. 
anthers linear; corolla glabrous ...... (15) rigidum. 
Lys. reflexed, oblong- -lanceolate, mucronate; i 
e anthers linear; corolla hairy... ... (16) Ecklonis. 
ruit hirsute : 
Flowers axillary-sessile ... ... ... -.. (17) Lichtensteinit. 
Flowers cymoso-panicled 2.0.0... 0. (18) Groeyllis. 
: A. Ethiopicum Spee. 1511); stem erect ; young branches 
downy ; leaves ie ternate and d whorled, linear-lanceolate or 
subspathulate, glabrous ; flowers aggregated, verticillate-spiked, tetran- 
drous ; fruit oblong, nearly cylindrical ; mericarps elliptic, convex, 
obsoletely-ribbed and minutely-dotted at back, crowned by the calyx- 
