CEPHJELIS. 



888. C. punicea Willd. sp. pi i. 977. of Jamaica ; 



889. C. muscosa Swartz fl. ind. occ. 442, of the West Indies ; 

 are also emetic according to Von Martius. 



GEOPHILA. 



Limb of calyx 5-parted with linear spreading segments. Co- 

 rolla tubular, with a pilose throat, and 5 rather recurved lobes. 

 Anthers 5, inclosed. Stigma bifid. Berry ovoid, angular, 

 crowned by the calyx, 2-celled, 2-seeded. Creeping herbaceous 

 plants. Leaves stalked, cordate, like those of a violet. Stipules 

 solitary, undivided. Flowers in subsessile umbels, with involu- 

 crating bracts shorter than the flowers. 



890. G. reniformis Cham, and Schlecht. Linncea 1829. p. 137. 

 DC. prodr. iv. 537. Psychotria herbacea Linn. sp. 245. Jacq. 

 amer. t. 46. Psychotrophum herbaceum Browne Jam. 161. 

 Cephaelis reniformis HBK. iii. 377. Moist shady places in 

 the hotter parts of America ; Havannah, Jamaica, Porto Rico, 

 Brazil, the Oronoco. 



A small plant, with a creeping filiform stem, from which rise branches 

 about 3 inches long, each simple, erect, and having about 4 leaves. 

 Leaves roundish, cordate, obtuse; the petioles of the lower ones 

 very long, hairy. Peduncles terminal, 2-3-6-flowered, shorter than the 

 leaves. Corolla white, erect, with the tube twice as long as the spread- 

 ing limb. Berries red and succulent. Root emetic ; used as a sub- 

 stitute for Ipecacuanha. 



891. G. macropoda DC. prodr. iv. 537; or Psychotria macro- 

 poda Fl. Peruv. ii. 63. t. 211. f. 6. the P. cordifolia Dietr.gart. 

 lex. i. 618 is also emetic according to Von Martius. 



Tribe X: SPERMACOCE^. 



Stigma of 2 plates. Fruit dry, or scarcely fleshy, consisting 

 of 2, rarely 3-4 carpels, either united or separable, and indehi- 

 scent or dehiscent in various ways. Albumen between fleshy and 

 horny. Shrubs or herbaceous plants. Leaves opposite. Stipules 

 membranous at the base, usually split into numerous setaceous 

 lobes. 



BORRERIA. 



Limb of calyx permanent, 2-4-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped 

 or funnel-shaped, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, exserted or inclosed. 

 Stigma bifid or undivided. Capsule crowned by the calyx, 

 2-celled, dehiscing at the apex through the dissepiment when 

 ripe; carpels 1 -seeded, opening by a longitudinal chink inside. 

 Seeds furrowed along their face. Herbaceous or suffruticose 

 plants. Stems and branches usually square. Flowers small, 

 white, or blue, axillary or terminal, whorled, in cymes or co- 

 rymbose. 



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