22 LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sarcocephalus. 



Fruit of 2 indehiseent at length separating cocci . . . .86. HYDROPHYLAX. 

 Fruit of 2 separable cocci, both or one only dehiscing 



ventrally 87. SVEKMACOCE. 



Fruit of 2 connate cocci, calyx -limb greatly enlarged . . .88. GAIIXONIA. 



TRIBE XVI. G-alieeae. Corolla-lobes valvate in bud. Ovary 2-celled;. 

 style-arms 2; ovules attached to the base of the septum. t Fruit of 2 small 

 coriaceous or fleshy indehiseent lobes. Seeds peltate, usually hollowed ventrally. 

 Herbs ; leaves usually whorled, without stipules. 



Corolla rotate or shortly campanulate 5-merons . . . .89. KUBIA. 



Corolla rotate 4-merous 90. GALIUM. 



Corolla funnel-shaped 91. ASPERULA. 



TRIBE I. NAUCX.EEJE. 

 1. SARCOCEPHALUS, Afa-l. 



Shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing. Leaves petioled; stipules large or 

 small. Flowers in axillary or terminal peduncled globose heads, without 

 bracteoles, united by their confluent calyx-tubes ; bracts 2, stipular. Calyx 

 4-6-toothed with deciduous appendages. Corolla-tube long, funnel-shaped, 

 throat glabrous ; lobes 5-6, orbicular, imbricate. Stamens 5-6, on the corolla 

 mouth ; anthers sessile, acute. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, exserted, stigma 

 capitate, oblong or spindle-shaped ; ovules very many, imbricating upwards on 

 pendulous placentas. Fruits combined in a fleshy globose mass of 2-celled 

 pyrenes with very thin septa. Seeds few in each cell, minute, testa crustaceous, 

 albumen fleshy; embryo rather large, radicle inferior. DISTRIE. Species 8, 

 tropical Asiatic, African, and Australian. 



1. S. cordatus, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 133; leaves elliptic ovate or 

 cordate obtuse, peduncles solitary stout 1-headed, heads of fruit smooth. Bedd. 

 FL Sylv. t. 318 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 63. S. Horsfieldii, Miq. I. c. 134. Nauclea, 

 cordata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14 ; FL Ind. i. 509. N. coadunata, Roxb. in Rees 

 Cyclop. N. Roxburghii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 467, excl. synon. N. Wal- 

 lichiana, Sr. in Wall. Cat. 6098. N. parvifolia, Wall. Cat. 6093 B. Platano- 

 carpuni cordatum, Korth. Naucl. Ind. 16. 



MALAY PENINSULA, from Pegu and Mergui to Malacca, Wallich, &c. CEYLON,. 

 Walker, &c. DISTBIB. Malay and Philippine Islands, N. Australia. 



A small tree. Leaves 5-12 by 4-8 in. ; petiole f-1 in. ; stipules oblong, elliptic or 

 obovate. Heads ^-1 in. diam., drooping; peduncle 1-1 in.; stipular bracts broad, 

 almost basal. Flowers yellow, fragrant ; calyx-lobes clavate. A form with leaves 

 pubescent beneath, from the Malay Islands, is N. undulata, Wall. Cat. 6094 (not of 

 Roxb.}. The true N. undulata, Roxb., is not Indian, it is Wallich' s N. purpurea, 

 6090 D. (N. stipulacea, Herb. Eoxb., not N. Koxburghii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 467, 

 which from the description is 8. cordatus itself). 



2. S. subditus, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. ii. 134 ; leaves lanceolate obtusely 

 acuminate, peduncles solitary 1-headed, heads of fruit rough. Platanocarpum 

 subditum, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 133, t. 32. 



MALACCA, Griffith. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. 



Much more slender than 8. cordatus. Leaves glabrous, 3-5 by l|-2 in., narrowed 

 into the slender petiole, black when dry. Peduncles slender, pubescent, bracteate- 



