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13. CANTHIUM. Flowers small axillary, ovary 2-celled, style 



stout, stigma large. 



14. VANGUERIA. Like the last, but ovary 3 to 6-celled, and 



fruit larger. 



15. IXORA. Corolla tube long and very slender, lobes 4, 



twisted in bud, style filiform exserted, fruit quite small. 



16. PAVETTA. Like the last, but stipules more or less 



sheathing, and style much longer. 



1 7. MORINDA. Flowers white on a common receptacle ; 



calyx altogether united to the ovary and without a limb, 

 and therefore not easily distinguishable, corolla lobes 

 4 to 7, fruit of the whole head of flowers united into one 

 large berry. 



Note. From the peculiarities of calyx and fruit this is a very 

 difficult genus to identify. 



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18. HA.MILTONIA. Flowers small, numerous, corolla tube 



long, filaments short, ovary 5 -furrowed, style 5 divided, 

 capsule 5-valved. 



19. SPERMACOCE. Flowers small, corolla lobes 4, fruit of 2 



united achenes. 



(/) Herbs with angular stems and entire leaves in whor 1 

 without stipules. 



20. RUBIA. Straggling or climbing, fruit didymous, fleshy. 



Note. This last genus alone belongs to the tribe by which the 

 order is known in England ; and which is sufficiently distinct to have 

 been made a separate order (Stellatae) by Bentham. 



1. ANTHOCEPHALTJS. 



A. cadamba (Nauclea c. D.) A very fine tree with large 

 long-stalked cordate ovate leaves, flowers in large stalked 

 showy heads, fragrant, orange coloured with white exserted 

 stigmas, calyx tubes growing together, corolla tube long, fruit 

 size of a small orange, yellow. Nhiv, nipa, Kadamba. 



Not uncommon about villages in the Konkan, and frequently 

 planted about temples. Wild or cultivated throughout India (ff.). 



This tree is held in great reverence both by Hindoos and Buddhists. 

 The ancient Indians compared the smell of the flowers to that of new 

 wine, from which they called the tree Halipriya (Sir W. Jones] : the 

 flowers also having an irresistible power of recalling the absent lover. 

 From its seed the tree of Buddha is said to have sprung, and to have 

 grown in a moment to an enormous size. (Dym.ock.) It is also 

 much connected with the unedifying history of Krishna, and therefore 

 held in reverence by his devotees. 



