11. Webera.] 77. RUBIACE^. 



11. WEBERA, Schreh. 



Trees or shrubs. Flowers 5- rarely 4-merous in terminal corymbi- 

 forra cymes, bracteolate. Hypanthiiim ovoid or turbinate. Corolla 

 funnel- or salver-shaped, throat grlabrous or pubescent, lobes twisted 

 in bud. Stamens on the throat or mouth, fil. short or Avith slender 

 exserted anthers. Ovary 2-celled with stout short pubescent styles 

 and stout fusiform grooved stigma. Ovules numerous, rarely few 

 (or 2 or 1 in species outside our area) in each cell, often immersed in 

 the fleshy peltate placentae. Berry small globose. Seeds plano- 

 convex or almost cupular or shaped like the segment of an orange. 

 Embryo small, cotyledons foliaceous. 



1. W. corymbosa, Willd. Syn. Eondeletia asiatica, L.; Chomelia 



asiatica, 0. Kze.; Tarenna zeylanica, Gaertn. (1788)*; Jau- 



joka. Or. 



A dwarf or large shrub or a small tree attaining 20 ft. with glossy 



oblong or oblanceolate-oblong leaves 3-9" long suddenlj^ contracted 



to a short acute or acuminate tip and with 8-17 strong sec. n. sharply 



turned up close to the margin. FloAvers sweet-scented white, ■4!--7'^ 



diam., in 3-chotomous densely hirtellous corymbose cymes about 2" 



diam. in flower or 3" diam. in fruit. Corolla d-" long in the bud, 



tube "15", pubescent above, shorter than the petals which are villous 



Avithin. Ovary-cells about 4-ovuled on spongy placentse. Berry 



black, •25" diam., globose, croAvned by the erect calyx. 



Southern Tract only, and chiefly in Pnri, a stunted bush on the laterite, Avhere it 

 is common, but becoming- almost a tree in the mountains of the Southern Range I 

 Fl. Nov. -Dec. Fr, Jan. -June. Evergreen. 



Axils of the sec. n. gland-hairy. Petiole "o--?" Avith a resinous secretion which 

 also occurs on the nodes and inflorescence, Interpetiolar stipules Avith a broad 

 persistent base and a deciduous triangular and cuspidate blade. Calyx •12" 

 tubular above the hypanthium, hy]). and calyx together "lo-'lQ" long in floAver. 

 Throat of corolla closed by white vilU. Anthers sub-sessile "2" long. Style pubescent 

 in middle, passing gradually into the large grooved stigma. Seeds 3-4 in each 

 cell shaped like the segments of an orange, 



12. GARDENIA, L. 



Trees or shrubs, often resinous, armed in a feAV sijecies Avith axillary 

 thorns. Leaves opp. or 3-nately Avhorled, or sometimes fascicled 

 in the thorny species, nerve-axils usually glandular. Fls. large or 

 m.s., usually solitary terminal or axillary, more rarely fascicled, 

 often dimorphic, Avhite or turning yellow, corolla tube usually long. 

 Petals 5-12. St. as many Avith sub-sessile linear included or only 

 half-exserted anthers. Ovary 1-celled. Style stout, stigma clavate 

 or fusiform, sometimes 2-cleft. Placentse 2-5. Fruit a berry or 

 drupe. Seeds many, imbedded in the placentse, compressed. Embryo 

 small, in horny albumen. 



I. Thorny species. Fls. 1 "5" diam. or less, dimorphic. 



Small tree. Cor, salver-shaped 1. furgida. 



Shrub. Cor,-tube campanulate 2. campmndafa. 



* Chomelia is the oldest generic name, but is already in use for another American 

 genus. Tareinia, Cooke states, is the next in priority, but I do not understand why 

 aniaticn is rejected as a specific name if Boudeletla asiatica is a synonj-m as stated 

 by Willdenow (p. 1224), 



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