MoRiwDA. RUBIACE^. 33 



Tribe III. GUETTARDE^. Kunth. 



Fruit drupaceous, 2-8-cellecl, or containing 2-8 one-seeded nucules. 

 Seeds somewhat terete, elongated, usually erect. Albumen mostly 

 fleshy. Estivation of the corolla usually contorted or valvate.— 

 Small trees, shrubs, or very rarely herbs. Stipules between the pe^ 

 tioles. 



Subtribe 1. Morinde^, DC. — Flowers and fruit aggregated in a dense 

 head and more or less coherent with each other. ^Estivation of the corolla 

 valvate. — Tropical shrubs or small trees. 



9. MORINDA. Faill. ; Linn. ; Lam. ill. t. 153 ; G(crtn. fr. t. 29. 



Calyx-tube obovate, cohering with the adjoining flowers ; the limb short, 

 scarcely toothed. Corolla infundibuliform ; the tube somewhat terete ; the 

 limb spreading, 5- (rarely 4-) lobed. Stamens 5 (rarely 4) : filaments short : 

 anthers usually included. Style filiform : stigma 2-cleft ; the lobes filiform. 

 Fruit baccate, containing 2-4 nucules, all usually concreted into a com- 

 pound subglobose fruit, which is areolate with the traces of the calyx. Em- 

 bryo terete, in a fleshy albumen. — Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, rarely 

 3 or 4 in a whorl. Stipules within the petioles, usually obtuse. Peduncles 

 solitary or several together, axillary, opposite the leaves (from the suppres- 

 sion of a leaf), or terminal. Flowers sessile upon a globose receptacle. 

 (Bark of the root styptic and used for dyeing.) 



1. M. Roioc (Linn.) : glabrous, procumbent at the base; leaves broadly 

 oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowed at the base into a short petiole ; 

 stipules broad and very short, bimucronate ; peduncles short, axillary or 

 opposite a leaf ; stamens somewhat exserted. — Linn. spec. 1. p.llQ; Jacq^ 

 hort. Vindob. t. 16 ; DC. proclr. 4. p. 448. Royoc humifusum, Plumier^ 

 s.en. p. 11, t. 26. Periclymenum Americanum, &c., Pluk. alm^ U 

 212, f. 4. 



Key West, Mr. Blodgett ! Common in the West Indies, &c. — Leaves 

 2-3 inches long, glabrous on both surfaces, except a pubescence in the axils 

 of the larger veins underneath. Peduncles 4-6 lines long, usually opposite 

 a leaf. Heads about half an inch in diameter. Flowers crimson. 



Subtribe 2. Mitchelle^. — Flowers solitary, or geminate with their 

 ovaries united. iEstivation of the corolla valvate. Albumen somewhat 

 cartilaginous or corneous. — Creeping evergreen herbs, natives of the northern 

 and southern extratropical regions, and on mountains within the tropics. 



10. MITCHELLA. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 63; GeBrtn.fr. t. 192. 



Chamsedaphne, Mitch. ; not of Buxb. 



Flowers in pairs, with their ovaries united. Limb of the calyx conspicuous, 



4-toothed. Corolla infundibuliform, with a slender tube, 4-lobed ; the lobes 



spreading, densely hirsute or bearded within (as well as the throat) with 



white hairs. Stamens 4, somewhat included : filaments inserted into the 



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