CEPHjELIS. 



888. C. punicea Willd. sp. pi. i. 977. of Jamaica ; 



889. C. muscosa Swartzfl. ind. occ. 442, of the West Indies ; 

 are also emetic according to Von Martius. 



GEOPHILA. 



Limb of calyx 5-parted with linear spreading segments. Co- 

 rolla tubular, with a pilose throat, and 5 rather recurved lobes. 

 Anthers 5, inclosed. Stigma bifid. Berry ovoid, angular, 

 crowned by the calyx, 2-celled, 2-seeded. — Creeping herbaceous 

 plants. Leaves stalked, cordate, like those of a violet. Stipules 

 solitary, undivided. Flowers in subsessile umbels, with involu- 

 crating bracts shorter than the flowers. 



890. G. reniformis Cham, and Schlecht. Linneea 1829. p. 137. 

 DC.prodr. iv. 537. — Psychotria herbacea Linn. sp. 245. Jacq. 

 amer. t. 46. Psychotrophum herbaceum Browne Jam. 161. 

 Cephaelis reniformis HBK. iii. 377. — Moist shady places in 

 the hotter parts of America ; Havannah, Jamaica, Porto Rico, 

 Brazil, the Oronoco. 



A small plant, with a creeping filiform stem, from which rise branches 

 about 3 inches long, each simple, erect, and having about 4 leaves. 

 Leaves roundish, cordate, obtuse; the petioles of the lower ones 

 very long, hairy. Peduncles terminal, 2-3-G-flowered, shorter than the 

 leaves. Corolla white, erect, with the tube twice as long as the spread- 

 ing limb. Berries red and succulent. — Root emetic ; used as a sub- 

 stitute for Ipecacuanha. 



891. G. macropoda DC. prodr. iv. 537; or Psychotria macro- 

 poda Fl. Peruv. ii. 63. t. 211. f. 6. the P. cordifolia Dietr. gart. 

 lex. i. 618 — is also emetic according to Von Martius. 



Tribe X: SpermacocejE. 



Stigma of 2 plates. Fruit dry, or scarcely fleshy, consisting 

 of 2, rarely 3-4 carpels, either united or separable, and indehi- 

 scent or dehiscent in various ways. Albumen between fleshy and 

 horny. — Shrubs or herbaceous plants. Leaves opposite. Stipules 

 membranous at the base, usually split into numerous setaceous 

 lobes. 



BORRERIA. 



Limb of calyx permanent, 2-4-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped 

 or funnel-shaped, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, exserted or inclosed. 

 Stigma bifid or undivided. Capsule crowned by the calyx, 

 2-celled, dehiscing at the apex through the dissepiment when 

 ripe; carpels 1 -seeded, opening by a longitudinal chink inside. 

 Seeds furrowed along their face. — Herbaceous or suffruticose 

 plants. Stems and branches usually square. Flowers small, 

 white, or blue, axillary or terminal, whorled, in cymes or co- 

 rymbose. 



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