RUBIACEM. 403 



papillose. Fruit free dry hirsute ; exocarp solute from endocarp ; 

 seed . . . ? — A small hirsute annual ; ^ leaves opposite ovately acute, 

 petiolate ; stipules connate in sheath ; cymes many-flowered capituli- 

 form terminal, ebracteolate. (South west. Australia.^) 



27. Hamiltonia Eoxb.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or 2-morphous 

 (nearly of Serissa) ; calyx lobes 5,^ ovately acute or subulate, some- 

 times ciliate, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, sometimes pilose 

 within, valvate or induplicate. Stamens 5 ; anthers introrse, exserted 

 or enclosed (sometimes effete in female flower). Germen inferior ; 

 cells 5, oppositipetalous ; style branches 5 stigmatose, papillose, 

 connate at base (Lepto dermis ^) sometimes higher. Ovules in cells 

 solitary ascending ; micropyle extrorsely inferipr.^ Fruit capsular, 4, 

 5- valvate from base (Lepto dermis) or from apex (Euhamiltonia) ; endo- 

 carp solute from exocarp and persistent around seed in a more or less 

 fibrous reticulate sac, sometimes 3-valved at base ; seeds albuminous ; 

 cotyledons of straight embryo foliaceous, sometimes induplicate. — 

 Glabrous or variously clothed shrubs ; leaves (foetid) opposite, ovato- 

 lanceolate ; stipules intrapetiolar, broad, persistent ; flowers ^ in 

 terminal or axillary cymes,® subsessile (Leptodermis) or pedunculate 

 pedicellate and racemose ; bracts and bracteoles pointed, sometimes 

 connate by pairs in an involucre or involucel.^ (Trop, and suhtrop. 

 east, Asia}^) 



28. Pseudopyxis Miq.^^ — Flowers^^ hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 obconical concave, enclosing adnate germen and produced above to 

 an epigynous cupule glandular within. Sepals 5, inserted at margin 

 of cupule, ovato-lanceolate, persistent, finally perceptibly reticulate- 



^ Of singular aspect ; the inflorescences re- the short funicle ; coat simple incomplete, 



sembling those of some small Trifoliums. "' White, pink or aztire, sometimes odorous. 



2 Spec. 1. E. opercularina F. Muell. ' Sometimes centrifugal, 2-seriately super- 



3 Hort. Calc. 15 (1814) ; Fl. Ind. i. 554 (not posed; each 2-hracteolate {H. lanceolata). 

 MuEHL.).— DC. Prodr. iv. 462.— Endl. Gen. n. » A genus in our opinion very near Serissa, 

 3201.— B. H. Qen. ii. 135, n. 289.— H. Bn. Bull. differing chiefly in the germen with isomerous 

 Soc. Linn. Par. 214 (1879).— Hook. FL Ind. iii. perianth. 



\%1.—Spermadictyon Eoxb. Fl. Corom. iii. 32, t. "> Spec. 6, 7. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 137.— 



236 (1819). LiNDL. Bot. Reg. t. 348, 1232. — Done. Jncquem. 



* Or more rarely 4. f^oy. Bot. t. 91 (whence fig. 246, 247, are taken). 



* Wall. Boxb. Fl.Ind. (ed. Carey) ii. 191.— — Walp. Rep. ii. 488 ; vi. 50. 



Rich. Rub. 141.— DC. Prodr. iv. 462.— Endl. " Ann- Mus. Lugd.-Bat.iii. 189.— B. H. Gen. 



Gen. n. 3202.— B. H. Gen. ii. 135, n. 290.— ii. 135, n. 291. 



Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 198. " Pink, rather large. 



* Sometimes closed by a small dilatation of 



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