288 LOGANIACEAE. [ Labordea. 
Embryo straight or Eins with leafy cotyledons. — Trees, shrubs, clim 
bers or rarely herbs. Leaves opposite, usually connected by interpeliolas 
get or raised lines. 
mall Order, in many respects allied to Rubiaceae, but ee by the free 
ely nit is chiefly tropical, ranging over both the Old and New Wo 
1. LABORDEA, Gaud. 
Calyx persistent, 5-lobed, or rarely the lobes all free, quincuncially im- 
bricate in the bud, unequal, the outer ones generally broader than the 
inner, ie toebiiansone, yellow or greenish, with a cylindrical tube, 
the narrow lobes pointed, erect or spreading, sinistrorsely contorted in 
the a slightly overlapping. Anthers 5, subsessile near the throat, 
partly exserted, linear-oblong, acute, affixed at the back near the base, 
celled. eae ovoid, incompletely re 3-celled; ovules numerou 
tropous or nearly amphitropous, on thick saunrenthy axile Jace 
Style as long as the tube of the corolla, the stigma elongato-clavate, 
pubescent, 2—3-lamellate with lobes connate, complanate or trigonous. 
Fruit capsular, with a thick exocarp, septicidal from the apex downward, 
the woody or pergameneous concentrically striate valves, with part of 
penni-nerved. Stipules sheathing. Inflorescence a terminal cyme, simple 
r compound corymbiform or paniculate, so reduced a single 
flower, with a pair of foliose bracts at the base of the peduncle and 
small linear bractlets about the middle of the pedicels. 
A Hawaiian genus nearly related to the Polynesian and Malaysian genus Geniostoma 
= riwagaaoony of the capsule does not take place until after marcescence of the thick 
leathery exocarp. 
bordeae verae. Innovations from the oat axils below the 
inflorescence, therefore the branches dichot ous, enclosing between 
them the old ‘fruit. Branches angular, the Sous’ crowded near their ends. 
r ones often foliaceous. Corolla yellow, the apices of its long 
patent in the bud. Capsule 2- or 3-valved, the valves 
