RUBIACE^. 



331 



the preceding genera ; but the androecium consists of only two 

 enclosed stamens inserted on the tube of the corolla. In the former 



Virecta (^Poitas) caruea. 



Fig. 322. Flower (f). 



Fii?. 323. Lon?. sect, of base of flower. 



the fruit is a bivalve and locuHcidal capsule ; in the latter it is less 

 dry and opens from top to bottom in five pannels, although, like that 

 of Carkmannia, it has only two polyspermous cells. In both the 

 seeds are small and numerous. 



X. POBTLANDIA SERIES. 



Portlandia ^ 



(fig. 324-330) often has regular flowers of five and 

 more rarely four parts. The inferior ovary is obconical and bilocular, 

 surmounted by an entire or lobed disk, and by a style the stigmatiferous 

 extremity of which is truncate, or slightly enlarged, nearly entire or 



^ p. Bu. Jam. 164, t. 11.— L. Gen. n. 227. — B. H. Gen. ii. 45, n. 50.— II. Bn. Adansonia, 

 — GiKUTN. Fruct. i. 153, t. 31.— Rich. Etib. xii. 296. — Qomanthes A. Kick. Fl. Cab. t. 

 206.— DO. Prodr. iv. 404.— Endl. Gen. n. 3258. 49bi8 (not Bl.). 



