RUBIACEJE. 423 



Germen inferior, 5- 10-celled ; cells oppositipetalous, 1-ovnlate; disk 

 epigjnous depressed; style narrowed at base within disk, at apex 

 rather thick entire sulcate. Ovules descending from top of cell an^^le ; 

 micropyle introrsely superior. Fruit drupaceous; pyrenes 5-10. 

 Seeds descending ; funicle sometimes incrassate ; albumen fleshy ; 

 radicle of small axile embryo superior. — Glabrous shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite petiolate coriaceous entire ; stipules intrapetiolar connate in 

 sheath ; flowers in terminal pedunculate compound cymiferous 

 corymbs. (Antilles, Florida, Venezuela,^) 



63. Chione DC.^ — Flowers (nearly of Erithalis) 4, 5-merous ; calyx 

 dentate or lobed. Corolla short funnel-shaped campanulate ; lobes 

 obtuse, sometimes subauriculate at base, closely imbricate. Stamens 

 4, 5 ; filaments rather thick inserted above base of corolla ; anthers 

 dorsifixed, introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous 

 rather thick ; branches of thickish style 2, obtuse divaricate. Ovules 

 in cells solitary descending ; funicle rather thick ; raphe dorsal. Fruit 

 oblong drupaceous; putamen very hard, 2-celled. Seeds cylindrical, 

 pointed below ; albumen oftener thin ; cotyledons of fleshy macropod 

 embryo small inferior ; radicle thick superior. — Glabrous trees or 

 shrubs; leaves opposite entire coriaceous petiolate; stipules ovate, 

 sometimes connate, caducous ; flowers ^ in terminal compound some- 

 times subcorymbose cymes, bracteolate. {Antilles.^) 



64. Guettarda L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or oftener polygamo- 

 dioecious ; calyx cupular, tubular or campanulate, entire or dentate, 

 persistent or deciduous; teeth equal or unequal. Corolla funnel- 



^ Spec. 4, 5. P. Br. loc. Ci7.— Gkiseb. Fl. Mus. vi. 377 {Antir/icea).—T)C. Prodr. iv. 459, 

 B>it. W.-Iud. 336; Cat. PL Cub. \oZ {Chioue), . — Endl. Gen. n. 3194.— B. H. Gen. ii. 100, n. 



U\.—Qv.Av'!A.Fl.S.Unit.St.l'l%. 197.— Baker, J^A Maurit. Ui.— iStenosiomum 



^ Prodr. iv. 461. — B. H. Gen. ii. 107, n. 216. G^rtn. f. Fruct. iii. 69. — Sturmia G^ktn. F. 



— Sacconia Endl. G^n. d. 541. — Crusea Rich. loc. cit. t. 192. — Sfemstimum J. Mem. Mus. vi. 



Hub. 124, t. 9, fig. 1 (not DC), Zll .—Dicrobotryum W. ex Sch. Syst. v, 221.— 



3 Small, " whitish." Zaic(/eria Yaul, Fcl. 26, t. 10 (1796).— B. H. 



" Spec, 3, 4. Vahl, Fcl. iii, t. 21 {Psychotria). Ge". ii. 101, n. \m.—Bobea Gaudich, Freycin. 



— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 335 ; Cat. PL Cub. Voy. Bot. 473, t. 93.— B. H. Gen. ii. 101, n. 200. 



133 (part). — Bobcea Hich. Pub. IZo.- Gmttardella Champ. 



5 Gtn. n. 1064,— J. Gen. 207.— Rich. Rub. 121, Hook. Few Journ. iv, I'd! .— Fittoniotis Griseb. 



—DC. Prorfy. iv. 455,— Endl. Gen. n. 3192.— Bonplandia (1858), S.— Donkefaaria Lem. ///, 



B. H. Gen. ii. 99, n. 196.— Baker, FL Maurit. Hort.ii. Misc. 12.—0bbea Hook. f. Icon. 1. 1070 ; 



143.— Hook, FL Ind. iii. V2Q.— Matthiola L, G^/?n. ii. 102.— i/e<r«^y« (part) Ch. et Schlchtl, 



Gen. n. \2Zl {rxoi'DG.).—Cadamba^o^-s.Voti.n. Zinncea, iv. 190.— Phytidot us Hook. f. Jcoh. 



228, t. 128 {1776).— Halesia F.Bk. Jam. 205 t, 1071 {Rytidotus). — n. Bn. Adansouia, xii. 



{\7b^).—Antiirhoea Commers./. G- • 204; Mem. 242. 



