436 : RUBIACEA. GrorPHILA. 
alone exserted: style not half the length of the corolla; stigma bipartite, 
lobes linear. —Wall.! L: n. 6245 ; Wight! cat. n. 1357. Travancore. 
Perhaps only to be distinguished from the last by the stipules. 
1342. (4) C. Wightiana (Wall.:) shrubby, bushy, rigidly and shortly 
branched, with occasionally short axillary abortive or spinescent branchlets: 
leaves ovate, obtuse, glabrous on both sides: stipules subulate, rigid and 
spinescent: flowers usually solitary, sessile, axillary or at the apex of short 
2-leaved axillary branchlets: limb of the calyx with about 10 minute gland- 
like teeth, not increasing after flowering: corolla 5-cleft, pubescent or vis- 
cous on the outside, glabrous within ; segments linear-oblong: anthers at- 
tached by the middle of their back to the tube of the corolla, linear, entirely 
included: style not half the lengtb of the corolla; stigma bipartite, lobes li- 
near: berry somewhat didymous.—Wall.! L. n. 6246 ; Wight! cat. n. 1358. 
Coimbatore. 
XXVIII. GEOPHILA. Don. 
Calyx-tube obovate ; limb 5-partite, the segments linear, spreading or re- 
curved. Corolla tubular, hairy in the throat, with five ovate somewhat re- 
curved lobes. Anthers 5, included. Stigma bifid. Berry ovoid, angled with 
ribs, crowned with the calyx, 2-celled, 2-seeded.—Herbaceous perennial de- 
pressed creeping plants. Leaves petioled and cordate, almost like those of 
Viola. Stipules solitary on both sides, undivided. Peduncles springing from 
the uppermost axil, terminal, solitary, bearing several flowers at the apex. 
Flowers somewhat sessile, umbellate, involucred by several bracteas that 
are shorter than the flowers. ; 
1343. (1) G. reniformis (Don :) petioles and peduncles hirsute or pubes- 
. cent: leaves roundish-cordate : peduncles 2-3-flowered, shorter than the leaf. 
. Don. prod. fl. Nep. p. 136 ; DC. prod. 4. p. 537; Spr. syst. suppl. p. 82; 
Cham. and Schlecht. in Linnea, 4. p. 137.—G. diversifolia, DC. ? l. e-—Psy- 
-chotria herbacea, Linn. sp. p. 245; Roab. fl. Ind. 1. p. 533; (ed. Wall.) ?. 
p. 161.—Rheed. Mai. 10. t. 21 Malabar ; Rheede. 
Variable as to pubescence and shape of the leaves: sometimes they are 
quite obtuse, sometimes acute. We have specimens from Otaheite of what 
appears the very same plant, but almost entirely glabrous and with the pe- 
duncles 1-flowered. De Candolle enumerates six species, but putting out 0 
view the variable parts of the character (as pubescence and form of the 
leaves), we can scarcely say how they are to be distinguished: most of them 
are taken up either from authors who appear to have described them from 
solitary specimens, and who therefore could not have seen the connecting 
pr or who had been unaequainted with the species noticed by other bo- 
ists. 
TRIBE VII. SPERMACOCER. Cham. and Schlecht. 
Stigma bilamellate or undivided. Fruit dry or scarcely fleshy, com- 
posed usually of two, rarely of three or four |-seeded mericarps, that 
are sometimes concrete, sometimes separating and indehiscent, and 
sometimes variously dehiscent: dehiscence never loculicidal. Albu- 
men fleshy or somewhat horny.—Shrubs or herbaceous plants. Leaves 
opposite. Stipules membranaceous at the base, with usually se 
bristles at the apex. 
