E Gueltardella.] LXI. RUBIACEX. 419- 
4 to 6 l-seeded cells or separating into as many pyrenes.—Seeds o 
` Üwllarda, the albumen thin or none.—Shrubs usually slender. Stipules 
| interpetiolar, broad, pointed. Flowers rather small, probably polygamous, 
H on the branches of a forked axillary pedunculate cyme or solitary. 
` „ Æ small genus, containing besides the single Australian species which is endemic, one from 
| the Philippine Islands and one from S. China. It differs slightly from Guettarda and 
Bobea in the slender habit and in the calyx, and from Axdirrhea and Chomelia in the parts 
ofthe gynecium more than two. 
l. G. putaminosa, Benth. Apparently shrubby, much-branched, 
| slender, glabrous or the young parts silky-pubescent. Leaves from obovate 
to oblong, very obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole, rarely above 1 in. long 
and mostly smaller, smooth and shining. Peduncles slender, axillary, bearing 
ether 1 or a cyme of 3 flowers, only seen in an advanced state, Calyx-lobes 
small, obtuse. ` Corolla-tube very slender, about 2 lines long, silky-pubescent ; 
s 
i 4 to 6, very obtuse, about i line long and broad. Drupe ovoid or ob- 
| long, about 3 lines long, glabrous, the putamen hard, 5- or 6-celled, or (when 
| quite ripe? separating into as many pyrenes.— Bobea putaminosa or 
—Cinovius putaminosus, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 92. 
.. Queenslan. Rockhampton, Thozet. 
e £ the orifice of the cell; testa thin ; albumen none or very thin ; 
1 D 
2 acuminate, deciduous. Flowers sessile along the branches of a forked cyme, 
: Frai, in the axils. Së 
ok A 555 is spread over the tropical regions of both the New and the Old World. e 
3 i Australian Species is common s gäier from Eastern Africa to the Pacific. 
. t. 139 
ot, fer ce the cells and seeds small and eurved.—Wight, Ie. t. 10 ; 
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