219. RUBIACEAE 523 



Flowers in terminal or terminal and lateral cymes or panicles. Under- 

 shrubs with 3 — 6-parted stipules, or shrubs with undivided stipules 

 and monoecious flowers 60 



60. Calyx 4-toothed. Fruit warty. Stipules 3 — 6-parted. Undershrubs. — 



Species 2. South Africa Galopina Thunb. 



Calyx 5-toothed in the male flowers, 2-toothed in the female. Flowers 

 polygamous-monoecious. Fruit smooth. Stipules entire. Shrubs. — 

 Species i. Madeira amd Canary Islands. Phyllis L. 



61. (54.) Style deeply 2-parted. Fruit a capsule or a schizocarp. Leaves 



fetid when rubbed 62 



Style cleft, toothed, or entire. Fruit a drupe, rarely a berry or a schizo- 

 carp 64 



62. Stem climbing, woody. Stipules entire. Flowers in terminal and lateral 



cymes. Anthers included. Style-branches twisted. Fruit with a 

 fragile rind. — Species 10. Tropics. Some are used medicinally. 

 (Including Lecontea A. Rich, and Siphomeris Boj.) [Tribe PAED- 



ERIEAE.] Paederia L. 



Stem erect or prostrate. Stipules toothed or slit, connate. Flowers in 

 terminal fascicles or spikes, rarely axillary, 5-merous. Anthers exserted. 

 Fruit separating into two nutlets 63 



'63. Flowers polygamous. Calyx-lobes nearly equal. Corolla-lobes recurved. 

 Ovary and style hairy. Shrubs. Stipules toothed. Flowers in 

 terminal, head-like fascicles. — Species i. South Africa. (Under 



Anthospermum L.) Crocyllis E. Mey. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-teeth very unequal, some of them leaf- 

 like. Corolla-lobes spreading. Ovary and style glabrous. Stipules 

 slit. Flowers axillary or in terminal spikes or heads. — Species 9. 

 Tropical and South Africa Otiophora Zucc. 



'64. Fruit dry, separating into two mericarps 65 



Fruit succulent, berry- or drupe-like 66 



65. Filaments rather long. Mericarps without a carpophore. Flowers solitary. 



— Species i. Seychelles Neoschimpera Hemsl. 



Filaments none. Mericarps suspended from a cleft carpophore. Flowers 

 in cymes. - — Species i. Comoro Islands. . . Cremocarpus Boiv. 



66. Seeds with fleshy albumen. Flowers hermaphrodite. Corolla funnel- 



. shaped. Ovary 2 — 3-celled. Style 2 — 3-toothed. Shrubs, having a 

 . bad smell when rubbed. Flowers in terminal or terminal and lateral 



cymes 67 



Seeds with horny albumen. Plants without a strong smell, rarely exhaling 

 a bad smell when rubbed ; in this case inflorescences axillary and 

 style 4— i2-cleft. [Tribe PSYCHOTRIEAE.] 68 



67. Flowers in terminal fascicles, 4-merous. Corolla with a long tube and 



spreading lobes, glabrous at the throat. Anthers distinctly exserted. 

 Style-apex thread-shaped, 2-cleft. Fruit a drupe. — Species 3. North- 

 west Africa. Used medicinally Putoria Pers. 



