178 RUBIACEAE. [Straussia. 
supporting leaves remaining undeveloped. Calycine limb short truncate. 
Corolla white, tubular to funnel-shaped, 3—4” long, 5-cleft, pilose at the 
shortly bifid, as long as the tube. Syncarpium several inches in 
diameter, fleshy. — Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 40. 
The «Noni», gern iol ee ek introduction, As only found in open low Jands. 
as ifi 
J , tive 
by most Polynesians, the root, according to Seeman, yielding a yellow and the bark a 
red color. The fruit is insipid, and very fetid when decaying. «Noni» is also the 
Tahitian name 
8. STRAUSSIA, Gray. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx turbinate, jointed with the pedicel, the 
limb short truncate or obscurely 4—6-toothed, persistent. Corolla rotate, 
4— 6-cleft, valvate in the bud., eta 4—6, inserted in the throat of 
the corolla, on short filaments, basifixed, oblong, with thick connective, 
partly exserted in the sterile, enclosed and shorter in the fertile flowers. 
Disk convex. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 erect anatropous truneate ovule in 
each cell. Style short, with truncate and generally coadunate branches 
in the sterile, longer and subexserted, with complanate or caine lobes 
in the fertile flowers. Drupe with 2 plano-convex pergameneous pyrenae. 
Seeds erect on a broad scale-like funiculus, the flat ventral side furrowed 
but not connate, soon deci s. Leaves often with flat glands in the 
axils of the nerves underneath. Flowers small, white, sessile (or the 
lateral ones subsessile) in cymes which are place close whorls or 
umbels at the ends of verticillate rays of a terminal panicle. Bracts 
minute, caducous 
A Hawaiian genus, nearly related to win este and Chasalia. — The median flower 
of the cymes is mostly 5—6-1 obed, while the lateral ones are 4-lobed. The corolla in no 
es 2” without the lobes. The lente on the under side of the leavés she 
not constant in any species, largest and most frequent in S. Hawaiiensis, next in S. Mart- 
niana; in the other species pi are very small, often hidden by the pubescence, & 
of irregular occurrence. The inner border of the Fe eae sear is lined in all species 
with a fringe of short stiff nice. Nat. name: «Kopiko» 
3. §. Hawatiensis. 
: waeeaiaiieae at the base; corolla pubescent . 4. S. oncocarpa. 
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