404 | RUBIACEJE. Ontonnama. 
attached to the middle of the dissepiment. Style filiform, soon projecting 
beyond the corolla. Stigma bipartite; segments narrow, linear, recurved. 
Capsule crowned with the calycine teeth (the apex circular, flat, and not 
free from the calyx), 2-celled, septicidal, bicoccous; the cocci splitting at 
the apex at the back, separating from the epicarp (the calyx). Seeds nume- 
rous in each cell, minute, angular.—Shrubs. Leaves elliptic, acuminated, 
much attenuated at the base. Stipules large, tongue-shaped, membranace- 
ous. Corymbs terminal, trichotomous, spreading : branches hirsutely pubes- 
cent: partial ones dichotomous. Flowers whitish, nearly sessile along the 
one side of the ultimate divisions of the panicle, approximated, each subtend- 
ed by a subulate bractea. Calyx sprinkled with short bristly hairs. 
To this very distinct genus (which we have named in honour of B. D. Greene, 
Esq. of Boston, U. S.), besides the following, belongs Rondeletia spicata, Wall., or 
R. corymbosa, Jack, which are placed in Wendlandia by De Candolle, and through 
inadvertency kept up as distinct s ecies, although Dr Wallich points out their iden- 
tity in his edition of the Flora Indica (vol. ii. p. 574): as both specific names are ap- 
plicable to the whole genus, we trust we shall not be charged with recklessly altering 
them by proposing for this species that of G. Jackii. The inflorescence is very pe- 
culiar, and considerably like that of Tournefortia. 
1242. (1) G. Wightiana (W. & A.:) leaves almost quite glabrous on both 
sides except on the midrib and nerves.— Wight! cat. n. 1286.—W endlandia 
Wightiana, Wall! L. n. 6277. 
XI. OPHIORRHIZA. Linn.; Gertn. fr. 1. t. 55. 
Calyx-tube short, turbinate: limb 5-cleft, persistent. Corolla tubular, in- 
fundibuliform ; tube several times longer than the limb of the calyx, hairy 
. Within; limb of 5 ovate lobes. Stamens 5, included. Ovary adnate to the 
> calyx, crowned with a 2-lobed disk, 2-celled, many-ovuled ; placente ob- 
Ee long, ascending from the dissepiment near the bottom of each cell. Style 
se filiform, usually short. Stigma bifid. Capsule compressed, broad, 2-lobed, - 
crowned with the calycine segments, 2-celled, 2-valved, loculicidal. Seeds 
numerous, small, somewhat hexagonal. Embryo straight in the axis of a- 
fleshy or somewhat horny albumen.—Low perennial, herbaceous, or suffru- 
tescent plants. Leaves opposite, petioled, membranaceous, the opposite one 
often smaller. Stipules in pairs on each side, very small, and deciduous. - 
Peduncles axillary and terminal, cymose at the apex, with the ultimate divi- 
sions somewhat umbellate. Flowers unilateral, nearly sessile. 
1243. (1) O. Munghos ( Linn. :) stem when old suffruticose : leaves elliptic- 
laneeolate, acuminated at both ends, glabrous, very thin: stipules minute, 
truncated : cymes peduncled, terminal, branched, naked : tube of the corolla 
short, infundibuliform : style as long as the tube.— DC. prod. 4. p. 415; Spr 
syst. 1. p. 585 ; Gaertn. fr. 1. t. 55; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. TOL; (ed. Wall.) 2- 
p. 644 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1212; Wall, ! L. n. 6277; Wight! cat. n. 1296. 
—a; cymes lax; their ultimate branches elongated, many-flowered.—? + 
cymes small, corymbiform, their branches short and few-flowered.—y ; cymes 
small, dense, somewhat capitate, their branches short and few-flowered— —— 
Dindygul. Courtallum. Travancore. T does 
1244. (2) O. Brunonis (W. & A.:) stem suffruticose : leaves oblong-lanceo" 
late, attenuated at both ends, glabrous, very thin: stipules minute; acute: — 
cymes peduncled, terminal or axillary, somewhat corymbiform, branche? s 
ultimate divisions few- (usually 2-) flowered: bracteas long, linear-subulate, 
scattered on the peduncle, and at the base of the partial peduncles, and oc 
