30 RUBIACE.E. Ckiettarda. 



G. SCabra, La?.:. Arborescent: leaves obovate to oblong (4 or 5 inches long), mucronate, 

 coriaceous, at length rugose, hispidulous-papillose and scabrous above, soft-pubescent be- 

 neath ; primary veins (9 to 1 1 pairs) very prominent beneatli and veinlets between well reticu- 

 lated : peduncles elongated : corolla often inch long ; tube retrorsely silky-villous ; lobes 5, 

 rarely 6 or 7 : drupe quarter-inch in diameter, 4-6-celled. — 111. t. 154, f. 3 ; Vent. Choix, 

 1. 1 ; DC. 1. c. 456 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 3.32. G. amhigua, Chapm. Fl. 178, not DC. Malhiola 

 scahra, L. Spec. ii. 1192. — S. Florida, C/iapman, Garber. ( W. Ind.) 



G. elliptica, Sw.\rtz. Arborescent : leaves from broadly oval to elliptical-oblong (inch or 

 two long), thinnish, pilose-pubescent, often glabrate, at least above; primary veins 4 to 6 

 pairs ; transverse veinlets not prominent : peduncles and small cymes shorter than the 

 leaves ; flowers usually 4-merous ; corolla quarter-inch long, externally canesceut : drupe 

 size of a pea, 4-8-cclIed, 4-2-seeded. — Prodr. 59, & Fl. Ind. Occ. i. G35 ; DC. 1. c. 457 ; Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. ii. 35 ; Griseb. 1. c. G. Blodgettii, Shuttlew. distrib. coll. Rugel ; Chapm. Fl. 

 178. — S. Florida, first coll. by Blod<jelt. ("w. Ind., Mex.) 



14. ERITHALIS, p. Browne. (Ancient Greek name of some plant, from 

 ept, very much, and 6a\X6<;, green shoot. Pliny applied it to some green Sedum, 

 and P. Browne to this lucid green shrub.) — West Indian littoral shrubs or low 

 trees, very smooth and resiniferous : the following is the principal species. 



E. fruticosa, L. Leaves mostly obovate, about 2 inches long, coriaceous : cymes pedun- 

 culate, many-flowered : border of the calyx repand-truncate : corolla white, quarter-inch 

 long ; lobes widely spreading : drupes not over 2 lines in diameter, purple. — Spec. ed. 2, 

 ii. 251 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 465 ; Desc. Fl. Ant. t. 242 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 35 ; Griseb. Fl. 

 W. Ind. 336. E. fruticulosn, &c., P. Browne, Jam. 165, t. 17, f, 3. E. odorifera, Jacq. Stirp. 

 Amer. 72, t. 173, f. 23. — Sliores and Keys of S. Florida. (All W. Ind.) 



15. CHIOCOCCA, P. Browne. Sxoavberrt. (Xtwv, snow, ko'kkos, berry.) 

 — Tropical American shrubs, commonly sarmeutose or twining, glabrous ; with 

 coriaceous shining leaves on short petioles, and small yellowish-white flowers in 

 axillary racemes or panicles ; the small berry-like drupes at maturity white. — 

 P. Browne, Jam. 164; Jacq. Stirp. Amer. G8 ; L. Gen. ed. 6, 92. — Some species 

 are obviously heterogone-dimorphous ! 



C. racemosa, L. Usually twining and climbing : leaves from ovate or oval to lanceolate- 

 oblong, shining, about equalled by the racemiform panicles : corolla short-funnelform, at most 

 4 lines long : anthers included : mature drupe quarter-inch in diameter and globose; only the 

 immature flattened and when dried did\'mous. — Spec. ed. 2, i. 246 ; Audr. Bot. Rep. t. 284; 

 Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 93 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 482 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 32. Lonkcra alba, L. Spec, 

 ed. 1, 175. — Var. parvifolia ( C paroijblia, Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 337) is a smaller-leaved and 

 low form, mostly with simple and shorter racemes. — Coast and Keys of Florida. (W. Ind. 

 to S. Am.) 



16. PSYCHOTRIA, L. (Name changed by Linnceus from the original 

 Psychotroplium of P. Browne, which was formed of ^v-^rj, soul, and rpot^rj, nour- 

 isliment : seeds used as a substitute for coffee.) — A large genus of shrubs, of most 

 tropical regions, commonly with membranaceous leaves, and small flowers in naked 

 terminal cymes ; in some heterogone-dimorphous. — Psychotroplium & Mijrsti- 

 phyllnm, P. Browne. 



P. undata, J.\cq. Shrub 8 to 18 feet high, with woody spreading branches, glabrous or 

 with some ferruginous pubescence : stipules rather large, broad, blunt, united and sheathing, 

 sphacelate-scarious, caducous (the shcatli usually splitting down one side) : leaves from oval 

 to elliptical lanceolate, acuminate at both ends ; primary veins transverse or little ascending : 

 cyme sessile, of about 3 primary rays and secondary divisions : corolla white or whitish, vil- 

 lous in the throat, with lobes shorter than tube : drupes red, ellipsoidal when dry (subrotund, 

 Jacquin), the nutlets striate-costate on the back. — Ilort. Schoenb. iii. 5, t. 260; DC. Prodr, 



