156 RUBIACEAE. [ Reynoldsia. 
A genus of 3 Polynesian ae one a gue to the Hawaiian, Society and 
Samoa Islands. It has been merged in the Indian genus Trevesia, which has palmate 
leaves, by the authors of the henies roar arum. 
1. R. Sandwicensis, Gray, Bot. U. S. E. Exp. p. 724, pl. 92. — A low 
scrubby tree, 15—25 ft. high, with a thick trunk and spreading crown, 
glabrous, only the youngest shoots sprinkled with a stellate pubescence. 
Leaves about 1 ft. long, the slender petioles shortly toothed at the dilating 
base. Leaflets 7—11, ovate to ovate-oblong, 2—4t/2‘ >< 2—3t/2‘, on pe- 
tioles of 6—12’’, obtuse or acuminate, repando-crenate, rarely almost 
lobate, cordate or truncate at the base, stiff membranous, light-green, 
glossy. Inflor. of 3 terminal peduncles rising from a short common rhachis, 
each 6—9‘ long and branching from the base upward, the branches 
o-um 
with pedicels of 3—4‘. Calyx obconical, truncate, 1-1/2. Petals 8— 
10, linear-lanceolate, nearly 3“ long, cohering. Anthers little shorter. 
Ovary 8—10-celled, wholly inferior. Drupe globose, 3—4“” in diameter, 
ribbed, with flat vertex, the stigmas on a short cone or stylopod. Pyrenae 
iepoan, with smooth sides. 
On all islands here and there, on open exposed fore-hilis up to about 1500 ft. The 
tree has the shape and habit of the cating’ or Erythrina monosperma, loses its leaves 
in winter e the reappearance of the leaves. Nat. name: 
«Ohe». In ——- the name “Ofer ‘pein Yb another Araliaceous tree, the Meryta lan- 
ceolata, Fors 
Orper XLI. RUBIACEAE. 
Calyx-tube adnate, the limb entire or with as many divisions as lobes 
5 or more lobes, the io ate, e or convolute in the bud 
Stamens as many as lobes of the corolla, alternate with them and in- 
ed in the tube. Ovary inferior, 2- or re-celled, with 1 or mo 
with a simple terminal stigma, or with as many stigmatic branches as 
cells to the ovary. Fruit varying. Seeds with a horny albumen, the 
embryo usually small, with flat cotyledons. — Trees, shrubs, herbs or 
rarely climbers. ves opposite, entire, with bi cceelobee stipules. which 
are either small and often extend inside the leaves, or resemble the leaves 
and form with them a Bind whorl. Inflorescence various. 
€ of the largest Orders of flowering plants, epee ——— only some Anthospermeae 
and nearly all Galieae senna to the temperate 
Ovules h cell: 
Lobes of corolla valvate in the bud; ovary 2-, rarely 3—4-celled: 
Seeds minute, laterally attached ; | fruit a dry capsule opening 
apex 
at the a 1. Kad 
larger, peltately attached; fruit tan indehiscent fleshy berry 2. Gouldia. 
Lobes of corolla contorted in the bud; oe oneness 
3. Gardenia. 
