RUBIACEJE. 4ffl 



throat or mouth of corolla; anthers various, exserted or enclosed, 

 sometimes sessile, introrsely ramose. Germen 2- or more rarely 3, 

 4-celled {Myonyma) ; style various, oftener exserted, at apex fusiform 

 subentire or sulcate {Rutidea, Pavetta,^ Chomelia ^) ; lobes 2 or 2-4 

 {Myonyma) ; sometimes free, patent or recurved {Euixora ^). Ovules 

 in cells either solitary ascending with micropyle extrorsely inferior or 

 inserted at middle, sometimes rarely descending (Siderodendron * part) 

 with micropyle introrsely superior; or 2-oo (Chomelia, Enterospermum^); 

 l^lacenta produced around ovule or ovules and with depressions equal 

 in number to that of ovules. Fruit baccate or oftener drupaceous ; 

 pyrenes generally 2, more or less thick, l-oo -spermous. Seeds 

 descending or oftener ascending ; albumen copious, equable or more 

 rarely (Rutidea, Enter ospermum) deeply ruminate and divided into 

 radiating wedge-shaped segments. — Small trees or shrubs, sometimes 

 climbmg, often nigrescent on decaying (Enterospermum) ; leaves 

 opposite or rarely verticillate, petiolate or sessile; stipules interpetiolar 

 various, persistent or deciduous ; flowers ^ terminal or more rarely 

 axillary, lateral or inserted in wood of branches, generally crowded, 

 very rarely few, in more or less compound corymbiform or umbelliform 

 cymes ; cymes often aggregate in a raceme ; pedicels bracteolate or 

 ebracteolate ; bracteoles sometimes connate in a cupule. (All trop, 

 regions J) 



» L. Gen. (ed. 1737) n. 132.— J. Gen. 203.— * Schreb. Gen. 71.— Rich. Hub. 103, t. 6, fig. 

 G^RTN. Fruct. i. 116, t. 25.— Rich. Hub. 100 3.— DC. Prodr. iv. 478.— Endl. Gen. n. 3171.— 

 (part).— DC. Frodr. iv. 490 (part). — Spach, H. Bn. Full. Soc. Linn. Par. n. 2S.—Sideroxy' 

 Suit, d Buffon, viii. 445. — Endl. Gen. n. 3160. — loides Jacq. Amer. 19, t. 175, fig. 9. 

 B.H. Gen. ii. 114, 1229, n. 236.— Hook. FL Ind. ^ Hiern, FL Trop. Afr. iii. 92 (1877) ; Hook. 

 iii. U^.—Crinita Houtt. PJl. Syst. vii. 361, t. Peon. t. 1269.— H. Bn. Adansotiia, xii. 215. 

 40, fig. 1 (1773). — Baconia DC. Prodr. iv. 485 ; ^ White, greenish., bluish, coccineous, pink or 

 Ann. Mas. ix. 219. — Verulamia DC. ex Pom. purple, often sweet scented. 

 Diet. viii. 543 (1808). Bracteoles inserted at ^ Spec, about 200, a few of which are new- 

 greater or less height on the pedicel, not, as is world. Bl. Bijdr. 951 {Pavelta).—WiGB.r and 

 generally the case in the Fuixoras, at the base Arn. Prodr. i. 427.— Wight, Icon. t. 148-151, 

 of the germen ; but this unimportant character 153, 184-186, 318, 584, 706-711, 827, 1035, 1065, 

 is certainly not constant. 1066 {Stylocoryne). — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Pnd. 



' L. Gen. (1737) 55 (not JAca.).— H. Bn. 337.— M. Arg. i^/ora (1875), 453.— Harv. and 



Adamonia, xii. 214. — Tarenna G^rtn. Fruct. i. Sond. FL Gap. iii. 4 {Stylocoryne)^ 19 (Pavetta). 



139, t. 28 {ll8S).— Webera Schreb. Ge,i. 794 — Bak. and Bale. f. FL Maur. 149 {Rutidea), 



(1791).— B. H. Gen. ii. 86, n. 162. — Baker, 150 {Myonyma), 151.— Ki.. Pet. Moss. BoL 289 



FL Maurit. 139.— Hook. FL Pnd. iii. 101.— Cfe- {Pavetta).—E.VEUV, FL Trop. Afr. iii. 88 {Taren- 



rxscas Nees, Flora (1825), IIQ. — Sty locoryne na), 162, 167 (Puvetta), 187 (Rutidea).— MiQ. 



Wight and Arn. Prodr. 400 (not CAy.).—Cupia FL Ind.-Bat. ii. 202, 354 {Stylocoryna), 262, 356 



jyC. Prodr. iv. 393 {y-drt). — Wahlenberyia Bl. {Pavetta), ZOO {Mi/oni/ma); Sup-p^.oiG {Pavetta); 



Cat. Buit. 14 (not Schrad.). — Coptosperma Ann. Mtis. Lugd.-Bat. \\. 191.— Seem. JP^. 77^ 



Hook. f. Gen. ii. 86 (part). 133.— Benth. FL AuUraL iii. 412 ( Webera), 413 ; 



^ Izora of authors. FL Hongk. 156 {Styhcorync), 157 [Pavctta), 158. 



