RUBIACE^E. CXI. GUETTARDA. CXII. MALANEA. CXIH. ANTIKHOZA. CXIV. STENOSTOMUM. 



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\~ Species not sufficiently known. 



31 G. FONTANE'SII (D. C. prod. 4. p. 458.) stem arborescent ; 

 leaves broad-ovate, acuminated, and are, as well as the divari- 

 cate branches, villous ; stipulas ovate, acute, deciduous. fj . S. 

 Native country unknown. G. hirsuta, Desf. cat. hort. par. 

 ed. 3. p. 404. but not of Pers. Habit of G. argentca. 



Desfontaines's Guettarda. Shrub. 



32 G. ? UMBELLA'TA (Spreng. neu entd. 3. p. 48.) leaves ob- 

 long, quite glabrous on both surfaces ; branches tubercular, com- 

 pressed, dilated at the top ; peduncles axillary, aggregate ; 

 flowers pentamerous, glabrous. Fj.S. Native of Brazil. The 

 calyx is said to be 5-toothed, and the drupe 6-celled. This 

 plant ought probably to be excluded from the order. 



Umbellate-flowered Guettarda. Shrub or tree. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Hamillonia, p. 555. 

 The species bear very fine leaves and flowers, and are therefore 

 worth cultivating. 



CXII. MALA'NEA (Aublet does not mention the meaning 

 of this word). Aubl. guian. 1. p. 106. t. 41. Juss. mem. mus. 6. 

 p. 376. D. C. prod. 4. p. 459. Malanea species, Lam. A. Rich. 

 Cunninghamia species, Schreb. Willd. Chomelia species, 

 Spreng. Scop. 



LIN. SYST. Tetrdndria, Monogynia. Calyx with a very short 

 tube, and a 4-toothed limb. Corolla small, almost rotate, with 

 a very short tube, and a 4-lobed spreading limb. Stamens 4, 

 with exserted filaments, which are about equal in length to the 

 limb of the corolla, and roundish anthers. Drupe dry, thin, 

 ovate, crowned by the calyx, containing a 2-celled nut ; cells 

 1 -seeded. A sarmentose shrub, native of Guiana, climbing 

 among bushes. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, acute. Sti- 

 pulas oval, obtuse, deciduous, interpetiolar. Peduncles axillary, 

 3 times shorter than the leaves, racemosely panicled : having the 

 branches opposite, the lower ones the longest. Flowers small, 

 sessile along the branches, bluish. 



1 M. SARMENTOSA (Aubl. guian. 1. p. 106. t. 41.?) J? . S. 

 Native of French Guiana, upon trees on the banks of rivers. 

 Lam. ill. t. 66. f. 2. Cunninghamia sarmentosa, Willd. spec. 1. 

 p. 615. Stipulas acute, ex Aubl., and the leaves tomentose be- 

 neath ; but in the specimens examined the stipulas are obtuse, 

 and the leaves are rather villous beneath, and at length glabrous. 

 Perhaps there are two distinct species, Aublet's and Patris's. 



Sarmentose Malanea. Shrub cl. 



Cult. See Pcederia, p. 561. for culture and propagation. 



CXIII. ANTIRHCE'A (from avn, anti, against, and pcu, 

 reo, to flow ; the plant is used to stop haemorrhage in Bourbon). 

 Comm. mss. Juss. gen. p. 204. mem. mus. 6. p. 377. D. C. 

 prod. 4. p. 459. Malanea species, Lam. A. Rich. Cunning- 

 hamia species, Schreb. Guettarda species, Sieb. 



LIN. SYST. Tetrdndria, Monogynia.. Calyx with an ovate or 

 oblong tube, and a short campanulate 4-toothed limb. Corolla 

 tubular, 4-cleft, with acutish lobes, which are shorter than the 

 tube. Anthers oblong, almost sessile in the throat, not exserted. 

 Stigma bifid. Drupe somewhat baccate, ovate or oblong, 

 crowned, containing a 2-celled putamen : cells 1 -seeded. Seeds 

 terete. Small trees, natives of the Mauritius. Leaves petiolate, 

 opposite, or 3 in a whorl, oblong or obovate, glabrous, usually 

 beset with glandular hairs in the axils of the veins. Stipu- 

 las interpetiolar, acute, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, shorter 

 than the leaves, bifid. Flowers small, whitish, sometimes 

 dioecious from abortion, unilateral, and sessile along the 

 branches of the peduncles. This genus has the inflorescence of 

 Stenostomum, but differs in the parts of the flowers being quater- 

 nary, not quinary. The flowers are nearly like those of Mala- 



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nea, but the inflorescence is different ; the tube of the corolla 

 is longer, and the anthers almost sessile. 



1 A. VERTICILLA'TA (D. C. prod. 4. p. 459.) leaves 3 in a 

 whorl, obovate-oblong, cuneated at the base, acuminated at the 

 apex, glabrous on both surfaces ; flowers hermaphrodite ; drupes 

 oblong. Tj . S. Native of the island of Bourbon, and probably 

 of the Mauritius, where it is called bois de Losteau. A. Los- 

 taeana, Comm. in herb. Juss. Malanea verticillata, Lam. ill. t. 

 66. f. 1. Desr. in Lam. diet. 3. p. 688. Antirhce'a Borbonica, 

 Gmel. syst. 1. p. 244. Cunninghamia verticillata, Willd. spec. 

 1. p. 615. Drupe the size of a grain of wheat. Flowers small, 

 white. 



Whorled-leaveA Antirho3a. Tree 20 feet ? 



2 A. DIOI'CA (Bory, in litt. ex D. C. prod. 4. p. 459.) leaves 

 opposite, and 3 in a whorl, obovate, cuneated at the base, short- 

 acuminated, smoothish, beset with glandular pili in the axils of 

 the veins ; flowers dioecious from abortion ; drupes oblong. J? . 

 S. Native of the Mauritius. Pet. Th. mel. obs. p. 56. Ma- 

 lanea neuropora, Comm. in herb. Thouin. Flowers small, 

 whitish. 



far. ft, barbinervis (D. C. prod. 4. p. 466.) nerves of young 

 leaves bearded, and very hairy in the axils. J? . S. Native of the 

 Mauritius. Guettarda barbinervis, Sieb. fl. maur. 1. no. 61. 

 Cham, et Schlecht. in Linnaea. 4. p. 190. 



Var. y, acuminata (D. C. 1. c.) leaves almost smooth, long- 

 acuminated. Jj . S. Native of the Mauritius. Guettarda acu- 

 minata. Sieb. fl. maur. 1. no. 60. 



Dioecious Antirhcea. Tree 20 feet? 



3 A. FRANGULA'CEA (D. C. prod. 4. p. 460.) leaves opposite, 

 ovate, acutish at the base, and rather acuminated at the apex, 

 smoothish, with the axils of the veins glandless ; flowers herma- 

 phrodite ; drupes ovate. T? . S. Native of the Mauritius. Guet- 

 tarda frangulacea, Sieb. fl. maur. exsic. 2. no. 59. Drupe one- 

 half shorter than in the first species, sometimes 3-celled and 3- 

 seeded, which shows its affinity with Guettarda. Flowers small, 

 whitish. 



Frangula-like Antirhcea. Tree. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Hamiltbnia, p. 555. 



CXIV. STENO'STOMUM (from <rrvoc, stenos, narrow, and 

 ffrofia, stoma, a mouth ; in reference to the narrow mouth of the 

 corolla). Gaertn. fil. carp. 3. p. 69. t. 192. under Slurmia. D. C. 

 prod. 4. p. 460. Stenostemum, Juss. mem. mus. 6. p. 377. 

 Malanea species, A. Rich. mem. soc. hist. nat. par. 5. p. 202. 

 Laugeria species, Swartz. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Monogynia. Calyx with an ovate 

 tube, and a small 5-toothed limb ; teeth permanent, conni- 

 vent, rather unequal. Corolla funnel-shaped, having the tube a 

 little wider at the throat, and a 5-lobed limb : lobes lanceolate, 

 bluntish. Anthers 5, oblong, hardly exserted. Stigma 2-lobed. 

 Drupe ovate-oblong, crowned, containing a 2-celled putamen. 

 Seeds terete, solitary in the cells, inverted. Embryo central, in 

 the fleshy albumen. West Indian trees. Leaves opposite, oval 

 or oblong, on short petioles. Stipulas at length deciduous. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, divided into a bifid cyme. Flowers small, 

 white, sessile and unilateral along the branches of the cyme, and 

 one in each fork. Inflorescence of Antirhce a, but differs from 

 that genus in the parts of the flowers being quinary ; and from 

 Guettarda in the putamen of the fruit being 2-celled, not many 

 celled. 



1 . Corollas glabrous. 



1 S. LU'CIDUM (Gaertn. fil. carp. 3. p. 69.) leaves oblong, ob- 

 tuse, shining above, glabrous on both surfaces ; teeth of calyx 

 short, obtuse. Jj . S. Native of the West Indies, as in Jamaica, 

 Santa Cruz, St. Lucia, Porto-Rico, Trinidad, &c. Sturmia lu- 

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