RUB I AC E^. 391 



2. Asperula L.' — Flowers^ nearly oi Buhia, asepalous; corolla 

 fumiel-sliaped or tubular-funnel-shaped,^ valvate. Style branches 2, 

 equal or subequal (Euasperula^), sometimes unequal (Crucianella^), 

 capitate at apex {Sherardia ^) or more rarely very short and approaching 

 a simple capitellate style (Phuopsis''). — Herbs, rarely frutescent at 

 base ; leaves, stipules &c. of Ruhia; ^ flowers ebracteate or involucrate, 

 ebracteolate (Euasperula), sessile ; or bracteate and 2-bracteolate 

 (Crucianella) , or spuriously capitate (in contracted cymes) involucrate, 

 2-bracteolate (Phuopsis), more rarely surrounded with bracts and 

 bracteoles connate in a spurious involucre (Sherardia) and spuriously 

 capitate. {All temp, regions of the Old World,^) 



II. SPEEMACOCE^. 



3. Spermacoce L. — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely poly- 

 gamous ; receptacle concave, various in form. Calyx 2-merous, oftener 

 4-merous ; lobes dentiform equal ; 2 lateral often larger ; with few 

 or 00 denticules interposed. Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped or hypo- 

 crateriform ; throat glabrous villose or pilose ; lobes 4, or more rarely 

 5 J 6, valvate. Stamens as many, inserted in throat or tube ; anthers 

 dorsifixed, introrse, 2-rimose, enclosed or exserted, more or less 

 elongate. Germen 2-celled (rarely 3, 4-celled), crowned with short 

 or thick, entire or 2-lobed disk ; style slender more or less elongate, 

 entire or oftener more or less deeply 2-lobed at stigmatose apex. 

 Ovule in cells solitary, inserted at the middle of the septum or at 



1 Ge>7. n. 121. — Juss. Gen. 196.— G^rtn. f. Eelmst. 435 (not L.). 



Fruct. iii. 89, t. 195.— Lamk. Diet. i. 297; T Q-ri^e-r. Spic. Fl. Eumel.ii. &l.~h.B..Gen, 



Suppl. i. 483 ; III. t. 61.— Rich. Rub. 50, t. 1, ii. 151, n. 336. 



fig. 1. — DC. Prodr. iv. 581. — Endl. Gen. n. ^ Phuoims has ovule inserted at the base. 



3103.— Spach, Suit, d Buffon, viii. 473.— B. H. » Spec, about 110. Reichb. Jc. FL Germ. t. 



Gen. ii. 150, n. 334. 1176 {Crucianella) 1177-1183,— Jaub. et Spach, 



2 Small, white, pink, yellow or azure. ///. PL Or. t. 82, 83, 196.— Sibth. Fl. Grcec. t. 

 ' See p. 260, note 5. 117-124, 139, 140 {Crucianella).— Tms. Mem. 



* Asperula of authors. Acad. Petersb. (1818) 485, t. 11 {Crucianella).— 



* L. Gen. n. 126.— Rich. Rnb. 5\.— DC. Prodr. Sm. Ex. Bot. t. 109 {Grtmanellay.—Boi&s. Toy. 

 iv. 586.— Endl. Gen. n. 3102.— G^rtn. Fruct. Esp. t. 83, 84; Fl. Or. in. 19 (Sherardia, C/ucia^ 

 i. Ill, t. 24.— B. H. Gen. ii. 150, n. 335.— Lax- nelia), 25.— Benth. i^^. Austral, iii. 443.— Hook. 

 mannia Gmel. (ex Endl.). — Rubeola Mcench. P. Fl- Tasm. t, 40; Jffandb. N. Zeal, Fl. 121 — 

 Meth. 525 (ex Endl.). Willk. et Lang. Prodr. Fl. Hisp. ii. 300, 305 



6 Dill. Gen. 3.— L. Gen. n. 120 (name having {Crucianella).— Gke^. et Godr. Fl.de Fr. ii. 47, 



priority).— Rich. Rub. 49.— DC. Prodr. iv. 581. 49 {Sherardia), 50 {Crucianella).— 'Wki.v. Rep. 



—GjEH'Ty. Fruct. i. 120, t. 24.— Endl. Gen. n. ii. 460; vi. 19 {Crueianelln), 22 ; Ann. ii. 73S 



3104.— H. Bn. Pa>/er Fam. Nat. 231.— B. H. {Crucianella), 739; v. 102. 



G.n. ii. 151, n. 337 — Pillenia Heist. Murt. % 



