* 409 LXI. RUBIACEZ. 
valvate corollas, and with pedicellate as well as sessile flowers. The only Australian ied 
n genus somewhat anomal i 
tative belongs to a anomalous in the fruits fms 
ent head, but very different from that of Morinda or o rcularia, e which the wë 
tubes are connate at the base or immersed in the receptacle ; w whilst in Sarcocephalus it is 
the upper part of the ig and epigynous disks that are "ee and ës the lower 
portion is often dry and never pulpy. 
1. SARCOCEPHALUS, Afz. 
a Korth.) 
pan the top of the cell. puo much died, with 2 short stigmatie lobes. 
its connate in a dense globular mass, fleshy when fresh, hard when dry, 
but capsular at the base. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, not winged. Albumen 
abundant.—Trees or shrubs. Stipules interpetiolar, membranous, very de- 
eiduous. : Flower-heads solitary on terminal peduncles 
p genus is spread over tropical Africa and Asia, the Australian species having a wide 
ge in É, India and the Archipelago 
1. S. cordatus, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii..133. ch laci SS either 
quite glabrous or the leaves softly pubescent underneath. 
n 
cime 
cordate at the base, from 4 or 5 in. to twice that length. Stipules large, 
broad, obtuse, but so deciduous as to be rarely seen. Pd 
dense globular heads above l in. diameter without the styles. 
shortly campanulate, with 4 or 5 stipitate clavate gland-like lobes. Ca 
tube slender, about 2 lines long ; lobes about half that length, obtuse. Style 
very long, with a thick ovoid shortly 2-lobed stigma. Fruits united in 2 
hard globular mass of above 1 in, diameter, pitted and ro ugh with th the Te 
beem of the more or less succulent calyxes and disks. Seeds ten 1 oblong, 
2 superposed and truncate in each cell.—Nauclea coadunata, ind. 
Cydl. xxiv.; DC. Prod. iv. 344; N.undulata and N. cordata, Rox FL 
i. 508, 509; Sarcocephalus undulatus, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 133. 
N. Australia, Glenelg river, N.W. coast, Herd. Hooker ; Mais river, 
land. ters dl Dallachy ; Port Denison, Fitz ph 
dh ylon and in the Archipelago —N. Ba e DC: pers "i 
cae — Bartling, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 133, is probably the form 
F. Mueller. 
SupTRIBE II. HenporrIDEX.—Flowers in clusters, © att 
cymes 
Corolla-lobes valvate. Ovules attached to an axile or basal Séch e 
"eg or separating into dry cocci. — Herbs, undershrubs, oF 
This subtribe is characterized 
especially with reference to the gene 
tralia, and so some ach nearly related to them. It is snag Zei) 
n from 
to mark more accurately the line of separatio 
p Ur je ot 
