RUB I ACE ^. 413 



drupaceous, ovoid or often obcordate ; pyrenes 1-5, 1-spermous ; 

 albumen of suberect seed thick sulcately ruminate ; radicle of small 

 embryo inferior. Other characters oi Gcertnera} — Trees or shrubs; 

 leaves opposite, entire penninerved, oftener coriaceous; secondary 

 nerves oblique little prominent ; flowers ^ in axillary or compound 

 cymiferous capituliform cymes ; peduncles sometimes complanate. 

 [Guiana, north-east. Brazil.^) 



44 ? Hymenocnemis Hook, f.* — Flowers (nearly of Uragoga) 

 hermaphrodite, 4-merous ; cells of infei:ior germen 2, 1-ovulate (of 

 Uragoga). Calyx 4-phyllous ; folioles unequal various in form, obtuse 

 patent ; teeth ^ minute interposed. Corolla funnel-shaped-hypocra- 

 teriform ; lobes 4, sublanceolate, valvate ; ^^ margins subcrispate 

 induplicate." Stamens 4, enclosed ; connective shortly produced. 

 Disk epigynous crenulate. Style slender; branches 2, recurved. 

 Fruit . . . ? — A slender divaricately ramose pubescent shrub ; leaves 

 opposite (small) ovato-elliptical apiculate, very shortly petiolate ; 

 stipules connate in a membranous villose sheath covering the top of 

 the branchlet and finally opening above ; flowers ^ axillary solitary ; 

 peduncle short bracteolate.^ (Madagascar.^) 



45 ? Fergusonia Hook, f.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous 

 (nearly of Uragoga or Lasianthus) ; sepals ovato-lanceolate, ciHate, 

 persistent. Throat of funnel-shaped corolla glabrous and lobes 4, 

 ciliate at apex, valvate. Stamens 4, inserted in throat ; filaments 

 short; anthers dorsifixed introrse. Germen inferior; cellules 4, 

 1-ovulate (of Uragoga) ; disk 4-lobed ; *' style branches 2, hnear, 

 hirsute, sometimes connate." Fruit 4-coccous; cocci subangular; 

 each crowned with a sepal ; seeds densely albuminous &c. of Uragoga. 

 — A procumbent ramose scabrid herb ; ^^ branches 4-gonal, radicant 

 below and ciliate at nodes ; leaves opposite lanceolate acuminate 

 venose; stipules lanceolate connate, persistent; flowers'^ axillary 

 subsessile, 2-bracteolate.^^ {East India}^) 



^ Of which perhaps rather an American sect. Fl. Ind. iii. 48. 



2 Small, white. *<* With the habit of Spermacoce, to which tho 



2 Spec, about 8. Prog. Mart. Fl. Bras. vi. genus is certainly closely allied. 



285, t. 81. " Minute, greenish (?). 



^ Gen. ii. 132, n. 283. *''' A genus very near to Hedyotis and espe- 



* Stipular (?). cially to AUeophania, being similar in habit and 



6 Rather large, white (?). in character of leaves. Germen cells perhaps 



7 A genus scarcely distinct from and perhaps 2-ovulate ; a spurious septum being interposed 

 a sect, of Uragoga, from its solitary axilar flower between the 2 ovules of the same cell, 

 analogous to some south-Caledonian species. ^^ Spec. 1. F. tetracocca. — F. Thwaitesii Kook. 



^ Spec. I. H. madagaseariensts B.OOK. T. I. c. Y.—Borreria tetracocca Thw. Enum. PI, Z«yl. 



» Icon. t. 1124 ; Gen. ii. 133, n. 84.— Hook. 442.— Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 39. 



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