32 RUBIACEjE. Chiococca. 



what clavate at the summit : stigma entire, or of 2 agglutinated lobes. 

 Fruit fleshy, globose-compressed and somewhat didymous, crowned with the 

 cah'x-teelh, including 2 oblong coriaceous nucules. Seeds suspended. Em- 

 bryo straight, in the axis of somewhat cartilaginous albumen : radicle long 

 and slender: cotyledons small. — Shrubs (tropical American), often with 

 sarmentose branches. Leaves petioled, glabrous. Stipules connate. Flow- 

 ers white or often turning yellowish, in axillary opposite racemes. (Root 

 emetic, &c.) 



1. C. racemosa (Jacq.) : leaves oval, acute at each end; corolla many 

 times longer than the teeth of the calyx ; filaments pubcrulent. — Jacq. stir]}. 

 Amer. p. 68 ; Michx. ! ji. 1. f. 103 ,• Andr. hot. rep. t. 284 ; Hook. ! exot. 

 Jl. t. 93 ; DC. prodr. 4. p. 482. (e. Floridana.) Jasminum flore myrtino, 

 Sec, Shane, Jam. t. 188. /. 3. Periclymenum racemosum, &c., Dill. Elth.^ 

 t. 228, /. 295. Lonicera alba, Linn, sj^ec. 1. p. 175. 



Sea coast of Florida, Michaux! Key West, Mr. Blodgett! (Also West 

 Indian & Mexican.) — Leaves 2-3 inches long, and an inch or more broad, 

 abruptly tapering at the base into a narrow petiole, somewhat shining above. 

 Racemes in the "axils of the uppermost leaves, and exceeding them in length, 

 usually simple ; the flowers somewhat secund, "at first white _ and inodor- 

 ous, but at length yellowish and odorous". Fruit about the size of a pea, 

 white. The branches are sometimes sarmentose ; the leaves somewhat va- 

 riable in form, and often acuminate ; and the racemes either simple or pani- 

 culate. — Snoivberry. 



8. PSYCHOTRIA. Liiin. ; Gfertn. fr. t. 25; DC. j^rodr. 4. ^;. 504; 

 W. S^-Arn. prodr. Lid. Or. 1. p. 432. 



Calyx-tube ovate ; the limb short, 5-lobed, 5-toothed, or somewhat entire. 

 Corolla infundibuliform, usually short, 5- (or rarely 4-) cleft, regular, with 

 the throat glabrous or bearded ; the Hmb spreading or recurved ; the seg- 

 ments incurved at the point : a3stivation valvular. Stamens 5, or rarely 4 : 

 anthers exserted or included within the throat of the corolla. Stigma 2-cleft. 

 Fruit drupaceous, containing 2 nucules, crowned with the limb of the calyx, 

 usually marked with 10 ribs by drying; sometimes 4-angled and with 

 four furrows, sometimes even ; nucules chartaceously coriaceous, ribbed, 

 angled, or even, 1-seeded. Seed erect, with a cartilaginous solid (not rumi- 

 nated) albumen.— Trees or shrubs, rarely herbaceous plants. Leaves oppo- 

 site, petioled. Peduncles usually terminal. Flowers panicled or corym- 

 bose. Am. 



1. P. lanceolata {Nun.): leaves lanceolate, acuminate at each end; the 

 lower surface as well as the branchlets ferruginous-pubescent; stipules am- 

 plexicaul, roundish, deciduous, sphacelate; corymb terminal, trichotomous 

 at the base. DC.—Nutt. in Sill. jour. 5. p. 290 (1822) ; DC. prodr. 4. 



P- 513. , , ^ . 



East Florida, Mr. fFare.—" Leaves 2-3 inches long. Berries ovate, 



red." This is unknown to us. De Candolle remarks that he has seen a 



specimen collected by Michaux. We have insufficient specimens, apparently 

 belonging to another species of Psychotria, collected in Florida by Dr. 

 Leavenworth. 



