Guettarda. RUBIACE^. 29 



inch long, suhglobose, blue or black, not many-seeded. — P. Browne, Jam. t. 8, f. 1 ; Griceb, 

 Fl. W. iud. 318; Chapm. Fl. 179. R. aculcata & K. mitis, L. Spec. ii. 1192, the latter 

 nearly a spineless form. Z?. latifoUa, Lam. Diet. iii. 24, & 111. t. 156. Gardenia Brvidia, 

 Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 52G ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1841. — Coast and Kevs of S. Florida. 

 (W. Iud., &c.) 

 R. Xal.\pexsis, Mart. & Gal.,occnrs not very far beyond the Mexican l)order. 



10. GENIPA, Plum. (Altered from an aboriginal name.) — Shrubs or 

 small trees of Tropical America ; with ample coriaceous and mostly lucid leaves, 

 deciduous interpetiolar stipules, no spines, but rather large white or whitish 

 flowers which are more or less pedunculate in a terminal cyme, and a large 

 firm-rinded berry. — Plum. Cat. 20, & PI. Amer. ed. Burm. 127, t. 136 ; Tourn. 

 Inst. 658, t. 436", 437 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 316. 



G. clusiaefolia, Griseb. 1. c. Glabrous: plant blackening in drying : leaves o])ovate, very 

 obtuse or retuse, mucronulate, sliglitly petioled, 2 to 5 inches long, nearly straight-veined, 

 ■fleshy-coriaceous, lucid : truncate calyx-limb bearing 5 distant and slender subulate teeth : 

 corolla inch long, fleshy, glabrous within and without ; tube longer than the oblong-lanceolate 

 lobes : acute tips of anthers e'N^serted : stigmas 2, subulate : fruit 2 or 3 inches long, ovoid. — 

 (uirdenia clnskrfoUa, Jacq. Coll. App. 37, t. 4; DC. Prodr. iv. 381. Randia? dusicvfolia, 

 Chapm. Fl. 179. Secen-r/e'irs Apple, Catesb. Car. i. 59, t. 59. — Keys and shores of S. Horida, 

 first coll. by Blodijett. { Bahamas, Cuba. ) 

 Gardenia Florida, L., cult, as Cape Jessamin-e, belonging to the genus most allied to 



Genipa, is planted out freely in the Southern Atlantic States. 



11. CEPHALANTHUS, L. Buxxox-Brsn. (Kcc^aXT?, head, and w^o?, 

 flower, the blossoms densely aggregated in a rotmd head.) — Two or three 

 American and as many Asiatic or African species. 



C. OCCidentalis, L. Shrub 3 to 15 feet high, glabrous or pubescent : stipules one on each 

 side between the petioles, triangular, sphacelate, at length deciduous : leaves ovate to lanceo- 

 late : flowers white : setiform bractlets between the flowers glandular-capitate : calyx not 

 glandular, a little hairy around the l)ase. — Spec. i. 95 ; Lam. 111. t. 59 ; JMichx. Fl. i. 87 ; 

 Schk. llandb. t. 21 ; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. iii. t. 91 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 31 ; Gray, Bot. 

 Calif, i. 282. — Swam])s and along streams, Canada to Florida and Texas, Arizona, and Cali- 

 fornia; fl. summer. Var. brachi/jiodus, DC, of Texas, and var. Californicus, Benth. PI. 

 Hartw., are. mere forms, with leaves short-petioled and often in threes. Var. sdh'ci/olius 

 (C salirifolius, Humb. & Bonpl. PI. ^quin. t. 98) is an uuusually narrow-leaved JMexican 

 form. (Mex., Cuba.) 



12. MORfNDA, Vaill. (Name contracted from Morus Indicus, the syn- 

 carp resembling a mulberry.) — Tropical shrubs or small trees, mostly glabrous ; 

 with oval to lanceolate leaves, their bases or petioles united by small scarious 

 stipules, terminal or axillary peduncles, and white flowers. — lioioc, Plum. Nov. 

 Gen. 11, t. 26. 



M. Roioc, L. Low shrub, or sometimes climbing by twining: loaves oblong-lanceolate: 

 stipules subulate-pointed : peduncles solitary, bearing single or sometimes geminate small 

 heads. — Spec. i. 176; Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 16; Desc. Fl. Ant. t. 129. — Coast and Keys of 

 S. Florida. (W Ind.) 



13. GUETTARDA, L. (Dr. J. E. G uett ar d. ) — Tro\^xc'A and subtropi- 

 cal shrubs, chiefly American, and one widely diffused littoral species : leaves ovate 

 to oblong, petioled, with prominent primary veins beneath : flowers in axillary 

 pedunculate cymes ; the corollas sericeous-canescent outside. — L. Gen. ed. .5, 

 428 ; Vent. Choix, t. 1 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 455, excl. § 4. Mathiola, Plum. Gen. 

 IG; L. Gen. ed. 1, 49. 



