RUBIACE^. 421 



superior. Fruit drupaceous 1, 2-pyreiious; albuminous seed &c. of 

 Ghwcocca? — Shrubs unarmed or with spinescent ramules ; leaves ' 

 opposite, shortly petiolate, coriaceous, glossy above ; stipules small 

 interpetiolar ; flowers ^ axillary pedunculate solitary or cymose few. 

 {Antilles.') 



59. Ceratopyxis Hook, f.^ — Flowers 5-merous ; lobes of gamo- 

 sepalous calyx elongately subulate, persistent. Limb of funnel-shaped 

 corolla 5-gonal in the bud ; lobes lanceolate, incurved at apex, 

 imbricate, revolute. Stamens 5 ; filaments inserted at bottom of 

 corolla tube ; anthers exserted, affixed near base ; cells linear sub-^ 

 extrorse. Germen 2-celled ; style slender, 2-fid at stigmatose apex. 

 Ovules in cells solitary descending elongate ; micropyle introrsely 

 superior. Fruit short, crowned with calyx, coriaceous, pubescent, 

 compressed contrary to septum ; seeds oblong albuminous ; radicle of 

 axile embryo superior. Other characters of 0///ocoaY/.^ — A'^resini- 

 ferous " shrub ; leaves opposite petiolate oblong acuminate coriaceous 

 highly nervose ; stipules rather large subulate connate in a sheath, 

 finally solute ; flowers '^ in axillary and terminal pedunculate cylindrical 

 densely cymiferous bracteate and sometimes foliate racemes, bracteo- 

 late. {Cuha.^) 



60. Machaonia H. B.^— Flowers 4, 5-merous; receptacle oftener 

 oblong, more or less compressed laterally. Calyx various, persistent ; 

 lobes 4, 5, oftener unequal, imbricate. Corolla longer or shorter 

 funnel-shaped or subcampanulate ; lobes equal or unequal, sometimes 

 very short, slightly or closely imbricate ; throat sometimes villose. 

 Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat; filaments often short; anthers 

 dorsifixed oblong, enclosed or exserted, sometimes short or sub-2- 

 dymous, introrse. Disk epigynous various, sometimes very small, 

 often 2-lobed.^^ Style often incrassate from base to apex ; lobes 

 generally 2,^* short acute slightly recurved. Germen inferior, some- 



* To which the genus is very near, as are also verbenacea Griseb. 



Chione, Erithalis and Machaonia. ^ Pi. ^qiun. i. 101, t. 29.— Rich. Rub. 82.— 



2 Often very small. DC. F, odr. iv. 574.— Endl. Gen. n. 3135.— B. II. 



3 Small or very small. Gen. ii. 102, n. 202. — H. Bn. Bull. ^oe.Linn, Fur. 



* Spec. 4, 5. Lamk. III. t. 67, fig. 2 {Catesbaa). 203.— Schiedea A. Rich. Hub. lOG (not alior).— 

 — Gkiseb. FL BiU. Jr.-Ind. 335 ; Cat. Fl. Cub, TertreaHG. Prodr. iv. 481.— Endl. Gtn. n. 3168. 

 122 {CaLesbmi). — B. H. Gtn. ii. 108, n. 219.— H. Bn. BhU. &ce. 



' Icon. t. 1125 ; Gen. ii. 105, n. 210. Linn. Par. 198. — Microsplenium Hoo^c. F. Gen, 



* To which the genus is very near, hence also ii. 4, n. 4. — H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 203. 

 to some Jfachaoniaa. ^° One lobe anterior, the other posterior. 



' Small, yellow (?). ^^ Very rarely 3; denticules sometimes 2, 



* Spec. 1. C. vet buiucva Houk. i.—Koudelitta ? with true stigraatifcrous branches alternating. 



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