RUBIACE^. 411 



epigynous various ; style branches equal to number of cells. Ovules 

 &c. of Uragoga, Fruit drupaceous, 1-10-pyrenous ; flesh sometimes 

 scanty ; seeds ascending albuminous. — Shrubs or shrublets (often 

 foetid), glabrous or offcener scabrous, tomentose or oftener strigose ; 

 leaves opposite obliquely or transversely nerved ; stipules interpetiolar 

 various, often broad, deciduous or persistent ; flowers ^ cymose in axils 

 of leaves, shortly pedicellate or oftener glomerulate crowded.^ (Trop. 

 Asia, Oceania J Africa and America.^) 



40. Saprosma Bl.^ — Flowers nearly of Lasianthus ; calyx 4-6- 

 lobed or dentate. Lobes of funnel-shaped or subcampanulate corolla 

 oftener 4, valvate ; margins attenuate or crispate induplicate. Stamens 

 4, germen 2-celled, 2-ovulate, &c. oi Lasianthus. Fruit ^ 2-pyrenous; 

 seeds albuminous. — Glabrous or more rarely pubescent (foetid) shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite or rarely verticillate ; stipules interpetiolar, deciduous, 

 1-3- cuspidate ; flowers ^ axillary and terminal, glomerate or cymose, 

 solitary or 3-nate ; bracteoles generally connate in calycule.^ (Trop, 

 Asia and Oceania,^) 



41 ? Myrmecodia Jack.^ — Flowers (nearly of Uragoga) herma- 

 phrodite, 4-merous ; calyx often subentire truncate ; corolla funnel- 

 shaped, hypocrateriform or suburceolate, valvate. Stamens 4; anthers 

 subsessile. Fruit drupaceous; flesh oftener scanty; pyrenes 2, 

 plano-convex (Htjdnophytim ^^) or 3-5, 3-gonal. Other characters of 

 Uragoga}^ — Glabrous epiphytal shrubs, slightly fleshy or coriaceous ; 



1 Small, white, yellow, greenish or pale purple. ^ Small, white or yellow. 



2 A genus, by the intervention oiAllceophania, 7 Often denticulate. A genus hence very near 

 closely allied to the Oldenlandia (if not to the Laslwithus, thence to Serissa and Ilamiltoida. 

 axilliflorous Uragogis). ^ Spec. 7, 8. Wall. Eoxb. Fl.Ind. (ed. Carey) 



3 Spec, about 75. Poir, Bict. iv. 315 {Morin- ii. 517 {Pcederia), —Mio,. FL Ind.-Bat. ii. 302 ; 

 f?,,.). —Wight, Icon. t. 1032.— Griseb. Cat. Fl Suppl. 223.— Bedd. Icon. Fl. Ind. Or. i. 1. 14-17, 

 Guh. 124 {SaUcea).—}AiQ.. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 314; iv . i^Serissa); Fl. Sglv.Madr.cxxxi\-ll. — Korth. 

 Suppl. 548.— Bexth. Fl. Austral, in. 425 ; Fl. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 224.— Thw. Enum. PI. 

 Eongk. 160.— Bedd. Ic. Fl. Ind. Or. t. 9, 13, 21, Zeijl. 150 {Serissa) .—Kv^, For. Fl. Brit. Biirm. 

 22 ; Fl. Sylv. Madr. cxliv-10, t. 17, v.— Thw. ii. 28.— Walp. Rep. vi. 45 ; Ann. ii. 752, 

 Fuum. Fl. Zeijl. 145 {Mephitidia).—KvR.z, For. ^ Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 122.— Eich. Rtib. 144. 

 Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 30.— Hiern, i^/. Trop.Afr. ii. —DC. Prodr. iv. 450.— Endl. Gen. n. 3184.— 

 228.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 232.— Walp. jB^ja. B. H. Gen. ii. 132, n. 280.— Hook. Fl. Lid. iii. 

 vi. 49 ; Ann. ii. 759. Idi.—Lasiostoma Spreng. (part). 



4 Bijdr. 956.— Rich. Pub. 98.— DC. Prodr. iv. ^° Jack, loc. cit. 124.— DC. Prodr. iv. 450.— 

 493.— Endl. Gen. n. 3159.— B. H. Gen. ii. 131, Endl. Gen. n. 3185.— B. H. Gen. ii. 132, n. 280. 

 n, 278.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 192. — Dysosmia — Hook. i^/. /««?. iii. 194. 



Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 325. — Bysodidendron i^ Stigma sometimes more or less distinctly 



Gardn. Cole. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 56. 2-lobed, but sometimes orbicular and ciliato- 



5 Small, purplish. marginate. 



