RUBIACEAE. 



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Ovules not pendulous ; flowers not racemose. 

 Flowers terminal, corymbose or panicled. 

 Flowers clustered in the axils. 

 Low herbs. 



Leaves opposite. 



Both carpels dehiscent. 



One carpel dehiscent, the other indehiscent. 

 Leaves verticillate. 



Calyx-limb none or obsolete. 



Flowers 3 together, their pedicels connate, 



middle flower fertile. 

 Pedicels separate ; flowers all fertile. 

 Calyx-lobes subulate, persistent. 



the 



9. 



10. 



Psychotria. 

 Coffea. 



Borreria. 

 Uperrnacoce. 



Vaillantia. 



Galium. 



Sherardia. 



1. RANDIA [Houst.] L. 

 Evergreen shrubs or trees, the leaves opposite. Flowers perfect, solitary, 

 usually axillary. Calyx-lobes 4. Corolla funnelform, salverform or campanu- 

 late, its lobes 5, convolute. Stamens 5, adnate to the throat of the corolla; 

 filaments short or nearly wanting. Disk annular or cushion-like., Ovary 2- 

 celled or very rarely 3-4-celled; styles usually united, stout, terminating in a 

 club-shaped, spindle-shaped or rarely cleft stigma. Berry usually 2-celled. 

 Seeds free or in a pulp, the testa thin, the endosperm horny. [In honor of 

 Isaac Eand, English apothecary.] About 100 species, natives of tropical re- 

 gions. Type species: Bandia mitis L. 



1. Randia acnleata L. Box Briar. 

 (Fig. 391.) A branching shrub, 3°-9° tall, 

 often spiny, the foliage glabrous or nearly 

 so. Leaves often clustered, spatulate, ob- 

 ovate, elliptic, oval or suborbicular, V-V 

 long, narrowed into short petioles; flowers 

 short-stalked; calyx-lobes triangular or 

 ovate; corolla white, 3"-4" long; its lobes 

 oblong, shorter than the tube; berries sub- 

 globose or oval, white, 4"-6" long. [Scolos- 

 antJms Sagraeanus of Millspaugh; Bandia 

 latifolia of Jones.] 



Abundant in sandy soil, Paget and War- 

 wick : also in Paget Marsh. Native. Florida 

 and the West Indies. Said by Lefroy (Botany 

 of Bermuda, p. 81) to be "an interesting ex- 

 ample of local naturalization " but on p. 139 

 of the same work he indicates it as a native 

 species, which it certainly appears to be. 

 Flowers in summer and autumn. From 

 Reade's description of BachicalUs rupestris it 

 would seem that he had this plant in mind. 

 Its fruits may have reached Bermuda by float- 

 ing. 



2. CAS ASIA A. Eich. 



Shrubs or trees, with terete branches. Leaves opposite, leathery; stipules 

 deciduous. Flowers perfect, in short-peduncled cymes. Calyx turbinate or cam- 

 panulate, truncate or with 5 or 6 obtuse sepals, persistent. Corolla white or 

 yellow, salverform or nearly rotate; pubescent in the throat, its lobes 5 or 6, 

 spreading, contorted. Stamens 5 or 6, adnate to the mouth of the corolla-tube; 

 anthers sessile. Disk cup-like. Ovary 1-2-celled; styles stout. 0^^lles numer- 

 ous in each cavity. Fruit a thick pulpy berry. Seeds numerous, angled. 

 [In honor of Luis de las Casas, Captain General of Cuba.] About 8 species, 

 of Florida and the West Indies. Type species: Casasia calophijlla A. Eich. 



