BUBIACE^. 415 



with alternate lobes of corolla ; anthers dorsifixed, enclosed or 

 exserted, introrsely 2-rimose. Grermen 2-celled ; disk epigynous 

 various; style branches 2, short or elongate narrow stigmatose. 

 Ovules in cells 1, or 2, inserted at various height on the septum, 

 ascending, more or less completely anatropous ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior or finally lateral ; in 2-ovulate cells, a spurious septum more 

 or less prominent between each ovule ; cellules sometimes complete. 

 Fruit generally concrete in a fleshy syncarp ; putamens 2-locular, 2- 

 locellate, or 1-4 pyrenes for each flower, 1-spermous. Albumen of 

 ascending seed copious fleshy ; radicle of more or less elongate axile 

 embryo inferior terete or dilated. — Small trees or shrubs, erect or 

 climbing, sometimes epiphytal ; leaves opposite or more rarely verti- 

 cillate, entire ; stipules interpetiolar or intrapetiolar, connate or free, 

 various in form; flowers in a spurious capitule (contracted cymes), 

 sometimes in each inflorescence oo , more rarely 3 {Trihrachya), or 2 

 (Dihrachya), very rarely few or solitary {Imantina) ; capitules axillary 

 or terminal, solitary, 2-nate or spuriously corymbose. {Trop, regions 

 of both worlds.) — See p. 291. 



48. Appunia Hook, f.^ — Flowers of Mormda, 5-merous; germens 

 free. Calyx short, sometimes entire or wide membranous. Corolla 

 elongate; lobes long-acute, thick, valvate. Germen 2-celled; cells 

 2-ovulate, sometimes spuriously septate between ovules. Ovules kc. 

 of Morinda, Fruit free drupaceous, 2-4-pyrenous ; pyrenes 1, 2- 

 spermous. — Small trees or shrubs; leaves opposite or ^Hhe uppermost 

 rarely subaltemate ; " stipules interpetiolar; flowers in spurious 

 axillary capitules long-pedunculate, glomerate, few bracteolate.^ 

 (Venezuela, Guiana, north east. Brazil,^) 



49. Coelospermum Bl.* — Flowers (nearly of Appunia or Morinda) 

 4, 5-merous; calyx truncate or dentate. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 hypocrateriform or subrotate ; lobes valvate, sometimes almost quite 



^ Gen. ii. 120, 1229, n. lo^.—BeUynxia M. ■» ^ej^fr. (1825-26) 994 (Cafosjofrmum).— Etch. 



Arg. Flora (1875), 465. Ruh. 129.— DC. Prodr. iv. 468.— Endl. Gen. n. 



2 A genus differing from Morinda only in its 3211.— B. H. Gen. ii. 119, n. 251.— H. Bn. Bull, 

 flowers not being connate. Soc. Linn. Far. 195. — Hook. Fl. Fnd. iii. 159. — 



3 Spec. 2-4. Benth. HooIc. Journ. JBot. iii. 232 Olostyla DC. Prodr. iv. 440.— B. H. Gen. ii. 66, 

 {Coffea). Ixora ongulata Spruce (exs. n. 3337), n. 103.— H. B. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 183.— 

 referred to another genus, appears to us a spe- Holostyla Endl. Gen. n. 3225. — Pogonolobus F. 

 cies of Appunia ; leaves all opposite in the herb. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral, i. 55. — Trisciadia 



[)f the Paris Mus. ; germens free ; cellules Hook. f. Gen. ii. 68, n. 111. — Hook. Fl. Ind. 



ale in each 1, ascending. iii. 94. 



