4 RUBIACEE (Sond.) [Stylocoryne. 
lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, glabrous, but bearded in the axils of 
the nerves beneath ; stipules ovate, acuminate, twice longer than the 
petiole; racemes axillary, corymbose, dense-flowered ; teeth of calyx sub- 
ulate, shorter than the tube ; tube of corolla 6-8 times shorter than the 
leaves ; style exserted. 
Has. Natal, Gerr. ¢ M‘K. 1389; Cooper, 1102; Sander. 616. Feb.-Mar. (Hb. D.) 
A large shrub, sometimes alow tree. Leaves 6-8 inches long, 2-23 inches broad, 
shining, penninerved, nerves in the axils with a tuft of whitish hairs, Racemes 
25-30-flowered, flowers white. Calyx 2 lines long. Tube of corolla 1 inch, the 
long pointed lobes 4-5 lines long. ‘This comes very near 0. Natalensis, but differs 
in the short tube of the corolla, : 
3. 0. latifolius (Sond.); branches, leaves, and calyx quite glabrous ; 
leaves ovate-cordate, cuspidate, quite entire ; stipules 3-angular-ovate, acu- 
minate, twice longer than the petiole; racemes axillary, lax-flowered ; 
teeth of calyx subulate, about equalling the tube ; tube of corolla one- 
half shorter than the leaves, style exserted. 
Has. Umgena, Port Natal, Gerr. ¢ M‘K. 718. Dec. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
A very handsome shrub or low tree, with fragrant white flowers. Leaves 6-8 
inches long, 4-5 inches broad, penninerved, paler on the underside. Flowers as in 
O. Natalensis, from which it is distinguished by the much broader, subcordate leaves. 
III. STYLOCORYNE, Cavan. (Richd.) 
Calyxz-tube ovate-globose ; limb short, tubular, 5-toothed. Corolla 
salver-shaped, with a cylindrical tube, and a 5-parted limb. Stamens 
5, inserted in the mouth of the tube of the corolla; anthers linear, very 
long. Style exserted ; stigma clavate, undivided, or the lobes are closely 
consolidated. Berry globose, crowned by the calyx, dry, 2-celled ; 
placentas spongy, adnate to the dissepiment. Seeds numerous, angular, 
rugulose. Albwmen rather cartilaginous. Embryo long. Stylocoryne et 
Cupia, DC. prod. 4, p. 377, 393. Ceriscus Nees ab Esenb. 
Trees or unarmed shrubs. Leaves opposite, oval or oblong, petiolate. Stipules 
broad at the base, acuminated atthe apex, 1-nervedinthe middle. Peduncles axillary, 
corymbose. Name from orvdos, astyle, and xopuyn, a club, in reference to the cla- 
vate stigma, 
1. S. cuspidata (E. Mey.) ; shrubby, unarmed, glabrous ; branches 
subangular; leaves petiolate, oval-oblong, narrowed to both ends, mem- 
branous ; corymbs axillary on longish peduncles, trichotomous ; pedicels 
and calyx adpressed-puberulous, at length glabrous, bracteated; berry 
globose, 6-8 seeded, shorter than the pedicels. 
Has. Port Natal, Drege, Gerr. ¢ M‘K. 136, April. (Herb. D., Sd. 
_ Alarge shrub. Stipules with a 3-lines oe pala ie 6-8 et long, 2-3 
inches broad, penninerved and strongly veined, green on both sides, tapering at the 
base, cuspidate, acuminate at the apex. Petiole 4-1 inch. Peduncles several inches 
long. Corymb with spreading branches and pedicels. Flowers not developed in 
Berry about the size of a pea, black, shini 
bee eas in 8. W Rich, ) ng, the inner structure 
IV. GARDENIA, Ellis. 
Calyx tube ovate, often ribbed ; limb tubular, truncate toothed, cleft 
or parted. Corolla tubulose or subeampanulate, hypocrateriform ; limb 
