RUBIACEAE. 



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base of the corolla-tube, the filaments \" long, much shorter than the anthers; 

 style as long as the corolla-tube; fruit compressed, becoming subglobose, pure 

 white, shining, 3"-4" long, the withering corolla long-persistent. [Chiococca 

 racemosa of Lefroy, Reade, Jones, Hemsley and H. B. Small.] 



Frequent on hillsides. Endemic. Flowers in autumn, the fruit ripe in winter. 

 The glossy foliage, beautiful flowers and fruit make this one of the most attractive 

 and interesting plants of Bermuda. It was long supposed to be identical with G. 

 alba, of Florida and the West Indies, its nearest relative ; the species was first 

 described by Stewardson Brown in " Proceedings of the -Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia," 1909, p. 493. It differs from C. alba by lighter green foliage, 

 larger leaves, stouter and longer pedicels and larger berries, and is a much more 

 elegant plant when in bloom ; as remarked by Lefroy, it is well worthy of cultiva- 

 tion ; it is readily grown as shown by a number of small plants taken to the New 

 York Botanical Garden in 191 2. 



The species probably originated from seeds of Chiococca alba transported to 

 Bermuda from Florida or the Bahamas by a bird, there producing plants which 

 subsequently, through isolation, developed differently from their ancestor. 



4. PSYCHOTUIA L. 



Shrubs or trees, or rarely perennial herbs, the entire-margined leaves op- 

 posite or rarely whorled; stipules sometimes sheathing. Flowers perfect or 

 rarely polygamo-dioecious, in terminal or axillary clusters. Calyx short, mostly 

 5-lobed. Corolla white, pink, green or yellow, tubular, funnelform or cam- 

 panulate, the tube straight, its lobes 5, or rarely 4. or 6, valvate. Stamens as 

 many as the corolla-lobes, adnate up to the throat'or mouth of the corolla-tube; 

 anthers attached at the base. Ovary 2-celled; ovules solitary in each cavity, 

 erect, anatropous. Fruit a small berry or drupe, often ribbed. Seeds erect, 

 testa thin; endosperm sometimes ruminated. [From the Greek, to give life, 

 with reference to supposed medicinal qualities.] Over 200 species, natives of 

 tropical and warm-temperate America. Type species: Psychotria asiatica L.; 

 the name asiatica was given by Linnaeus in error, the plant being Jamaican. 



1. Psychotria ligustri- 

 folia (Northrop) Millsp. 

 WILD COFFEE. (Fig. 394.) 

 A glabrous shrub, 4-8 

 high. Leaves oblong, or ob- 

 long-oblanceolate, 2'-4' long, 

 V-li' in width, rather firm 

 in texture, pinnately few- 

 veined, dark green and some- 

 what shining above, paler 

 green and commonly with 

 small tufts of hairs in the 

 axils of the veins beneath, 

 acute or acuminate at the 

 apex, narrowed at the base 

 into slender petioles 8" long 

 or less, the deciduous stip- 

 ules sheathing, subulate- 

 tipped; peduncles i'-2' long, 

 slender ; panicles several- 

 many-flowered, l'-2' broad; 

 flowers very nearly sessile, 

 about '2" long, the minute 

 calyx 5-6-toothed, the white 

 corolla tubular-campanulate ; 

 fruit oblong, several-ribbed, 

 about 3" long, dark red. 



