390 j RUBIACEÆ. ; NAUCLEA. 
ORDER LXXXI.—RUBIACE. Juss. 
Tube of the calyx cohering with the ovarium; the limb various, trun- 
cated or lobed, consisting of as many sepals as petals, rarely with acces- 
sory intermediate teeth. Petals 4-5, rarely 3-8, united, inserted upon 
the summit of the tube of the calyx : æstivation twisted or valvate. Sta- 
mens as many as the lobes of the corolla, alternate with them (rarely 
some of them suppressed) : filaments more or less combined with the 
tube: anthers oval, 2-celled, turned inwards: pollen elliptical. Ova- 
rinm adherent, usually 2-celled, or with several cells, rarely (by abor- 
tion) l-celled, crowned by a fleshy often urceolate disc: style single, 
sometimes partly divided: stigmas usually 2, rarely several distinct, or 
more or less concrete. Fruit a cremocarpium, or capsular, or baccate, 
or drupaceous, 2- or many-celled, Seeds one or many in each cell, in 
the former case attached to the apex, or more usually to the base of 
the cell ; in the latter to a central placenta. Albumen horny or fleshy, 
copious. Embryo straight or slightly curved, inclosed in the albumen: 
radicle turned to the hilum: cotyledons foliaceous.— Leaves simple, 
entire, opposite (very rarely verticillate) : stipules 2 at the base of 
each leaf, entirely distinct, or cohering either with the leaf or with each 
other, or both ways ; their apex sometimes produced into bristles, some- 
times into foliaceous expansions resembling verticillate leaves. 
Under this order will be found several species described by botanists, with Md 
we are quite unacquainted except from the characters given: there are others wie 
we have introduced apparently for the first time. e have, however, very strong 
suspicions that many of the former occur among Dr Wight’s plants either as peer’ 
or varieties; but although we have paid some attention to the subject, we have x 
been able to discover to which they respectively belong. Of the latter we are qui : 
satisfied that most may be found atkenay noticed by Willdenow, Lamarck, Roth, gi 
Roxburgh ; but from the vagueness with which, in general, the descriptions 0 s 
more important organs have been drawn up, and from the great changes that hav 
taken place of late years among the genera, it is now almost impossible to clear up 
the older synonyms without an actual examination of the original specimens. ig 
osteum hirsutum, Roxb. and DC., according to an imperfect specimen in Dr Wig i 
herbarium, certainly belongs to the Rubiacee, not to Caprifoliacee, and appears i 
be a species of Mephitidia of Blume (M. Rorburghii, W. & A.): it has not, € " 
know of, been found on the Peninsula. Notntels 2 hispida, Wall. in Roxb. fl, Ind. 
(ed. Wall.) 2. p. 187, is also a species of Mephitidia (M. Wallichii, W. & A.) 
TRIBE L—CINCHONACEX. DC. 
Fruit capsular, 2-celled ; cells many-seeded. Seeds winged or eau- — 
date. Albumen fleshy.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, with st- 
pules between the petioles. 
SUBTRIBE L—NAUCLEX. DC. 
Flowers capitate, sessile upon a globose receptacle. 
‘I. NAUCLEA. Linn.; Gertn. fr, 1. t. 30; Lam. il. t. 153. 
Calyx-tube oblong: limb either short and truncated or 5-partite with fee 
near lobes. Corolla infundibuliform : tube slender with the throat nak i 
