578 LXX, IIUBIACE-E. 



Oviilos solilary iu each cell [see also Anotis (12)]. 

 Leaves with stipules. 



Radicle superior ; corolla-lobes valvate. 



Fruit of 2 cocci 19. Knoxia. 



Fruit a drupe with 2-niany free or cohering pyrenes. 



Ovary 2-celled 20. Plectronta. 



Ovary 5-3-celled 21. Vangueiua. 



Radicle inferior. 



Corolla-lobes twisted. 



Style shortly exserted, 2-branched 22. Ixoua. 



Style much exserted, entire 23. Pa vetta. 



Corolla-lobes valvate. 



Caly.v-tubes confluent 24. Morinda. 



Calyx-tubes not confluent. 



Ovules basilar, erect, anatropous. 

 Style-branches 2. 

 Trees or shrubs. 



Stipules iutrapetiolar. 



Corolla-tube short, straight ... 2.5. Psyciiotria. 



Corolla-tube long, curved 26. Ciiasalia. 



Stipules intei-petiolar. 



Corolla - tube funnel - shaped ; 

 berry blue ; a fetid shrub ... 27. Saprosma. 



Slender creeping herbs 28. Geophila. 



Style-branches 3-9. 



Fruit drupaceous 29. Lasiantiius. 



Fruit capsular 30. Hamiltonia. 



Ovules attached to the septum, anipliitropous. 

 Herbs. 



Fruit of 2 indehiscent cocci 31. Hvdropiiylax. 



Fruit of 2 cocci, both or 1 only de- 

 hiscing ventrally 32. Spermacoce. 



A small shrub ; fruit of 2 connate cocci ; 



calyx-limb greatly enlarged 33. Gaillonia. 



Loaves without stipules. 



Herbs; leaves whorled 34. Rucia. 



1. SARCOCEPHALUS, xifzel. 

 Shrubs or trees. Leaves petiolate ; stipules iuterpetiolar and caducous, 

 or iutrapetiolar and persistent. Flo\Aers packed into globose heads, the 

 calyx-tubes fused into a fleshy mass ; peduncles simple, usually solitary, 

 terminal, braeteate below the middle ; bracts small. Calyx-lobes 4-5, 

 persistent or caducous. Corolla-tube long, narrowly funnel-shaped, 

 glabrous ; lobes 4-5, imbricate, glabrous or pubescent. Stamens 4-5, 

 inserted on the mouth or throat o£ the corolla. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 

 numerous, imbricate, on pendulous placentas; style hliform, exserted; 

 stigma fusiform. Emits combined into a fleshy globose mass of 2-celled 

 pyrenes with very thin septa. Seeds few in each cell, not winged; 

 testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy. — Disteib. Tropical Asia, Africa and 

 Australia ; species 13. 



1. Sarcocephalus missionis, Haviland, Rev. Naucl. in Joarn. 

 Linn. Soc. v. 33 (1897) p. 32. A small tree. Leaves 4-6 by l^-2i in,, 

 elliptic -lanceolate, subobtuse, membranous, glabrous, shining above, 

 running down wing-like into the petiole ; main nerves 10-12 pairs, 

 sleuder ; petioles scarcely | in. long ; stipules iutrapetiolar, persistent, 

 i in. long, triangular, acute, more or less connate, forming a sheath. 

 Peduncles stout, solitary, usually inclined, |-1 in. long, with stipular 

 sheathing bracts at the base and 4 small bracts ^-^ in. long united 



