RUBIACEM. 399 



tube ; anthers oblong dorsifixed exserted. Disk epigynous small or 

 0. Germen 2-celled ; style branches 2, free from base slender 

 exserted papillose. Ovules solitary; micropyle extrorsely inferior. 

 Fruit obcordate-didymous, externally granular rugose or muricate ; 

 cocci 2, finally solute, indehiscent ; septum narrow ; albumen of erect 

 seed fleshy ; cotyledons of straight embryo superior foliaceous. — Erect 

 perennial herbs ; leaves opposite ; stipules connate with petioles in a 

 sheath 3-cuspidate on both sides at apex ; flowers ^ in branched 

 terminal racemes ; pedicels very slender, bracteolate at base. (South. 

 Africa.^) 



18?Kelloggia Torr.^ — Flowers oiGalopina, 4-merous ; corolla 

 funnel-shaped, narrowed to a tube at base ; lobes valvate. Stamens 

 inserted in throat ; filaments short compressed ; anthers elongate 

 dorsifixed introrse versatile. Style 2-branched at apex; branches 

 filiform papillose throughout. Fruit oblong, like the germen covered 

 with hooked bristles ; cocci 2, 1 -seeded. Other characters of Galo- 

 pina^ — Erect slender herbs; branches thin; leaves opposite sessile 

 lanceolate; stipules broadly 3-angular interpetiolar; flowers in terminal 

 2-parous few-flowered cymes, articulate at top of pedicel. (California J) 



19. Cremocarpon Bvn.^ — Flowers (nearly of Galopina) 4-merous; 

 lobes of short calyx ovate-acute. Lobes of corolla 4, valvate, each 

 augmented externally below the apex by a short erect conical horn. 

 Stamens 4; anthers oblong subsessile. Germen inferior, 2-celled; 

 style 2-branched to apex. Glandules of epigynous disk 2, free thick 

 obtuse. Fruit 2-coccous ; cocci plano-convex, 5-ribbed ^ at back, 

 solute from the 2-branched columella and finally pendulous from the 

 top of the marginal and there furcate branches ; albumen of suberect 

 seed horny ; embryo axile cylindrical. — A shrublet ; leaves opposite 

 elhptical- ovate or obovate ; petiole slender ; stipules 2-nate on both 

 sides subulate recurved, connate at membranous base; flowers in 

 axillary 2-chotomous cymes. (Comoro is.^) 



20. Carpacoce SoND.9 — Flowers polygamous; receptacle unequally 



1 Very small, deciduous. * Spec. 1 (v.2 ?). 



2 Spec. 2. Thunb. Prodr. 32 {Anthospermum). « Ex H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 192. 

 — Ckuse, Linnxea, vi. 20 {Phyllis).— ^xkv. et ^ Like the Umbellifera. 



SoxD. Fl. Cap. iii. 26. ® Spec. 1. C. Boivinianum H. Bn. 



8 Unit. St. Explor. Exp. Bot. ii. 322, t. 6.— » Fl. Cap. iii. 32 (fruit sometimes, according 



B. H. Gen. ii. 137, n. 297. to t^e author, 2-8permous, 2-dymous). — B. H. 



* Of which rather a sect. ? Gen. ii. 141, n. 307. — Lagotia E. Met. exs. Dreg. 



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