274 RUBIACER. 
like the axillary ones, only one expanded flower seen; this 
same when put in water for preservation during the night lost 
its bilabiate form, and became as nearly as possible. regular, 
venation ordinary. 
Evidently Lecananthus of Jack and agreeing with his L. 
rubescens,- except in the regular corolla and smooth ovary, 
Jack's generic character is not so good as ordinary. 
Cal. tubulosus ore tubzformi bilabiato, Cor. valvata, 
bilabiata, laciniis subzequalibus, tubo infundibulif. Stam. 
medio tubo inserta, subsessilia inclusa. Ovarium bilocule, 
placentis intrantibus carnosis, (septo quasi affixis) ovula 00. 
Stigmata 2, crassa, oblonga, subexserta. 
It has nothing to do with Nauclea whatever; the ovarium 
is, while the tube of the calyx is beyond the limb, livid pur- 
ple, the last is =. inside. Calyx well developed before 
the corolla. 
Surrounding the internode base se next to in- 
florescence, isa ewe. the sheath of the gemma. 
` Rubiacee Pl. COCCLXXIX, Fig. I. 
- Fructus in cymos terminales aggregatos dense congesti, 
baccat. 
Bacce obovate vel obovato-pyriformes, spongiosz albi sub- 
diaphane apice profunde foveolatz. Calycisque dentis brunneis 
lanceolatis acuminatis connovente imbricatis ceronate pseudo 
4-loculares, Calycis parietis nempe a pericarpio secedentis nisi 
secus lineam septorum et utrinque placentis opposito. 
Pericarpium biloculare membranaceum tenue, septis mem- 
branaceis discretis. Placentz carnose stipitatze his opposit#- 
Semina 00, complanata irregulariter 4-angula brunnex pul- 
chre reticulata. 
Tegumenta duplex utrinque adherens exterius coriaceo" 
acea tenue e reticulatum brunneum, interius tenuiss. 
membranaceum album, albumen corneum. | 
