24 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Flores } poll. longi, in = foliorum solitarii, breviter pedicellati, bracteis 
2 3 aa utringque cum stipula conjunctis involucrati. Fructus parvus, 
tumidus.—J. D. Hooxer. 
Fig. 1. Flower om bracts. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Vertical section of ovary. 
4. Fruit. 5. Coceus. 6, Seed. 7. Vertical section of ditto. 8, Embryo :—adl magnified, 
Puate 1125. 
CERATOPYXIS VERBENACEA, Mook. /. 
RUBIACEA, 
Ceratopyxis, Hook. f. gen. nov. Calycis tubus ovoideus; lobi 5, 
rigidi, erecti, pabulstglennecleti, persistentes. Corol infundibularis, fance 
glabra ; limbi lobi 5, lineari-Ianecolati, revoluti, valvit Stamina 5, fundo 
tubi corolle inserta, filamentis liberis complanatis puberulis ; anthers dorso 
prope basin affixee, exsertee, lineari-elongate. Discus 4-lobus. Ovarium 
2-loculare ; stylus filiformis, stigmate clavellato apice 2-fido; ovula in loculis 
solitaria, ab apice Heme elongata, cylindrica, funiculo inerassato, Capsula 
C. verbenacea, Hook. f— Rondeletia ? verbenacea, Griseb, Cat. Pl. 
Cub. 130. Phialanthus spicatus, Sonal: Pl. Cub. 71. eo 
Has. Western Cuba, Wright, n, 2695. 
Frutex strictus, erectus robustus, ramulis teretiby $s, nodis resinosis. 
Folia 2-3 poll. longa, elliptieo-obovato-lan ceolata, acuminata, breviter crasse 
petiolata, glaberrima, nervis numerosis 8 gracilibus parallelis a costa valida 
divergentibus in unam intramarginalem confluentibus. Stipule intra- 
eee majusculz, late ovate, cuspidate, coriacese, fuscee, persintentes, in 
agin a 
rem demum solutam connate. Flores Il. longi, in 
tyres i valid, et ine cylindricos erectos obtusos densifloros dispositi, 
pedunculo a nferne e e stipuli g 
sie ene +; fhe “P Ipulis vaginato, Capsule 3 poll. longs, 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Anther. 4. Vertical secti 
6. Seed. 7. Vertical section of ditto :—all ma plied. section of ovary, 5. Capsule. 
