LXI. RUBIACEA. 417 
10. TIMONTUS, Rumph. 
ony nier Desf.) 
isi truncate or irregularly toothed. Corolla- ne cylindrical ; 
or more, short, thick, obtuse, with a central rib prominent inside, the 
min more or less imbricate in the bud. Anthers included in the tube. 
ty (normally 5- to 10-celled with several ovules to each cell) divided by 
m irious dissepiments between the ovules into very numerous 1-ovulate cells, 
Superpose ^ several irregular rows. Style divided into about 5 to 10 linear 
us a drupe, with exceedingly numerous aches peer 1-seeded 
i yrenes s ded packed and deme in many rows m the axis. Seeds of 
p or shrubs. Stipules e Pai a so deciduous as to be 
| ney en olygamo-dicecious, on axillary peduncles, M. females 
p small or jaia stamens) usually solitary, the males (with an abor- 
3 or more together, sessile in the forks or along the oda of 
? m) cymes. 
ibm genus consists faa a few meet. be zeg over ang Archipelago and inonda of the 
ending 
E Pacific, the Australian spec to Sumatra and Amboyna. ‘The peculiar 
E ei of this and oo se nd in poene very D y^ by A. D in the 
¥e-mentioned notes. I do not find, however, that Zimonius is so exceptional in the sesti- 
| KEE: the e as it appeared to to him, but it is difficult to observe. In the bud the 
— mu adhere 80 closely as to require much soaking to-open - without tearing, and, when 
| j ud are so thick as to convey the idea that they must have been valvate. But, on 
i anining buds Just ready to burst, I have found the Pare eit ea both in 7. Rum- 
y T. Rumphii, DC. Prod. iv. 461. A tall shrub or small tree, either 
‘ labrous except the inflorescence , or the young Hone silk EA e and the 
g JPhragmon sericeum, Desf. in Mem. Mus. vi. 6. t. 2 ; DC. Prod. iv. 445; 
pee ^s tlg F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 134. 
= Careening Bay, N.W t, A. Cunningham ; Upper Victoria € 
P. Muellers Port dë Armstrong; Sweers Island, Henn 
bru river, oo, 
E k, M*Gillivray ; Par Islands, A. Cunningham; Rockingham 
] "Hu; gentium "Dalla chy and o rö 
is also in Timor, mere NA, and probably in other islands of the 
11. SCYPHIPHORA, Gertn. 
(Epithinia, Jack.) ` 
cate or minutely toothed. Ger H cylindrical or 
= Ses ; lobes 4 or rarely 5, imbricate in the bud. Anthers 
oni. exserted. Ovary né? 9- iled, but oe? cell igs by a 
