7. Lbucas.] 83. ZABIATJS. 



rooky waste ground, with large ovate crenate leaves and scarlet flowers in 

 dense globose axillary whorls with spinescent bracts and spinescent calyx 

 teeth. Fls. Ocl-Jany. 



" The ash produced by burning the flower-buda is applied to burns and 

 soalds," Camp. 



Fam. 84, RUBIACm 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs of various habit with opposite simple 

 entire leaves with interpetiolar stipnles, more rarely whorled 

 or with intrapetiolar stipnles. (Stipules sometimes incon- 

 spicuous, esp. in fascicled leaves, or absent and replaced by 

 leaves in Tribe Stellatae.) Calyx superior, sepals usually 4-5 

 sometimes minute or 0. Corolla gamopetalous, petals 

 usually 4-5. St. isomerous, on the corolla tube ; anthers 

 usually dorsifixed with lateral or introrse dehiscence. Disc 

 epigynous. Ovary inferior 2- sometimes 5-10-celled, style 

 simple ; ovules either 1 or numerous in each cell, rarely 2 or 

 few, on axile placentae. Fruit various, 2-10-celled or of 

 2-more pyrenes. Albumen fleshy or horny. 



A. Ovules numerous in each cell. 



I. Fls. small in dense globose heads. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped ( Tribe Naiiclese.) 



a. Bracteoles 0. Stipules and buds lanceolate. 



Sepals 5. Peduncles solitary . . .1. Anthocephalus. 



b. Bracteoles between the flowerBjnarrow. 



Stipules connate by their edges over the broad 

 bud. 



Sepals Bubulate. Peduncles terminal solitary 

 orpanicled 2. Nauclea. 



Sepals linear. Peduncles axillary mostly 

 3-nate 3. Adina. 



Sepals 0. Peduncles 1-3-nate • . .4. Btephegyne. 



(Mitragyna). 



II. Fls. not in dense globose heads. 



a. Fr. capsular 2-celled, or of 2-4 dehiscent 

 or indehiscent cocci. Seeds small. 



Fls. in drooping thyreoid panicles. Tree . 5. Hymenodidyon. 



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