nUBIACEM. 



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often coriaceous, and its pulp covers numerous seeds, variable in 

 direction, with horny albumen,^ surrounding an embryo generally 

 axile, with oval or orbicular fohaceous cotyledons. They are trees, 

 sometimes spinous, of nearly all the tropical regions of the globe. 



Genipa {Gardenia) florida. 



Fig. 297. Flower (f) 



Fig. 298. Long. sect, of flower. 



The leaves are opposite, very rarely verticillate, accompanied by 

 intrapetiolar stipules most frequently connate in a sheath. The 

 flowers,' varying much in appearance, are rarely terminal, and more 

 generally axillary, solitary or in cymes, with longer or shorter pedicels 

 or even none. 



In the Genipas named Griffithia,^ often spinous or climbing, the 

 flowers, small in figure, are in corymbiform cymes, and the tube of 

 the hypocrateriform corolla is generally longer than the lobes. They 

 are plants of tropical Asia. Some unarmed Griffithias of western 

 tropical Africa, having the throat of the corolla hairy and four ovarian 

 cells, have received the name of Morelia^ Mitrio stigma^ is also 



1 Often confounded with the very thin coat 

 of the seed, which, apparently, is produced only 

 by a di£ferentiation of the superficial layer. 



2 White, yellow, pink or spotted, often large, 

 handsome, sometimes odorous. 



' W. and AiiN. Frodr. 399 (not K. Br. nor 



X 



Ker). — Endl. Gen. n. 3302. — Pseudixora Miq. 

 Fl. Fnd.-Bat. ii. 209. 



4 A. Rich. Rub. 152.— DC. Prodr. iv. 617.- - 

 Endl. Gen. n. 3324.— Hiern, FL Tr.Afr. iii. 112. 



5 HocHST. Flora (1842), 235.— B. H. Gen. ii. 

 90, n. 169.— Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr, iii. 111. 



