RUBIACEJE, 



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Sarcocephalus is exceptional in this group in the relation of its 

 flowers to the globular or ovoid axis of the inflorescence. In fact 

 the ovaries, like those of Morinda and several other genera, are 



Ourouparia Gamhir. 



Fig. 354. 



Seed (I). 



Fig. 352. Long. 



sect, of base of 



flower. 



Fig. 350. 

 Flower (f). 



Fig. 351. 

 Stamen. 



Fig. 353. De- 

 hiscing fruit (f). 



inserted in the cavities of the common axis of the inflorescence to 

 which they are adnate, and the compound fruit which results 

 represents this entire inflorescence become fleshy. The 5-6-merous 

 flowers, moreover, have an imbricate corolla and a bilocular ovary, 

 with ovules variable in number, even solitary, on a suspended 

 placenta. The two cells may be divided by a false partition into 

 mcomplete cellules, as in Anthocephalus. They are trees or shrubs, 

 sometimes climbing, of tropical Asia and Africa. The leaves are 



coriaceous and persistent sepals. The ovary pressed ovules. It is a tomentose shruh, with 

 has two cells each containing a peltate placenta terminal inflorescences, bearing only two oppo- 

 bearing a small number of orbicular and com- site cordate leaves at the end of each branch. 



