RUBIACEJE. 419 



stigmatose revolute branches. Ovule in cells 1, erect elongate. Fruit 

 coriaceous, crowned with calyx ; cocci 2, cartilaginous, 1-spermous. 

 Seeds erect '* albuminous ; cotyledons of axile embryo linear; " radicle 

 inferior. — A glabrous shrub ; leaves opposite subobovate ; stipules 

 intrapetiolar connate ; flowers ^ in pendulous axillary cymes. ^ (Guha,^) 

 55. Retiniphyllum H. B.* — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 poculiform or subglobose short, enclosing adnate germen. Calyx 

 tubular gamophyllous, subentire or 5-dentate at apex, persistent. 

 Corolla thick hypocrateriform ; tube elongate ; lobes of limb 5, much 

 contorted, finally reflexed at top of tube. Stamens 5, inserted within 

 villose throat ; * filaments thick subulate villose ; anthers introrse 

 ovate dorsifixed, acuminate at apex ; cells produced at base to a lamina 

 or narrow process, rimose, versatile. Disk epigynous annular or long- 

 produced surrounding base of style ; style exserted 5-lobed at apex. 

 Germen inferior, 5-8-celled; ovules in cell 2, incurved, collaterally 

 inserted on little prominent funiculiform placenta; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Drupe 5-pyrenous ; pyrenes cartilaginous, 1-spermous. 

 Seed incurved ; hilum ventral linear ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of 

 elongate terete embryo short ; radicle inferior. — Glabrous or pilose 

 shrubs, often resino-vernicifluous ; leaves opposite coriaceous closely 

 nerved ; stipules connate in a short sheath ; flowers ^ terminal spicate ; 

 bracts connate in a cupule or involucel. (North. Brazil , Guiana J) 



VII. CHIOCOCCE^. 



56. Chiococca P. Br. — Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely poly- 

 gamous ; receptacle obconical or obovoid, sometimes costate, enclosing 

 germen in its cavity and bearing the perianth at its margin. Calyx 

 gamophyllous; teeth 5 (more rarely 4 or 6). Corolla funnel-shaped 

 or subcampanulate ; throat glabrous ; lobes of obtusely 5-gonal limb 



^ " Greenish." Journ. Bot. iii. 223. — ? Ammianthus Spruce, 



2 A genus apparently very near the preceding Exs. n. 2248 (ex Hook. f. loc. cit. ). 



notwithstanding the {estivation of the corolla ; * Sometimes inserted at the bottom of the 



cells of germen 1 -ovulate. hollows of the corolla. 



' Spec. 1. P. coronata Griseb. loc. cit. ^ Moderate, " white or pink." 



* PL jEqnin. i. 86, t. 25.— Rich. Rub. 128.— 7 Spec. 5, 6. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii, 421. 



DC. Pro<?r. iv. 466. — Endl. G^e«. n. 3208. — B. II. — Walp. Eep. ii. 488; vi. 50 {Commianthus) ; 



Gen. ii. 98, n. 192. — Commianthus Benth. Eook. Ann. v. 114 {Commianthus). 



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