RUBIACE^. 427 



67 ? Prismatomeris Tw.^ — Flowers polygamo-dioecious ; recep- 

 tacle oblong- obo void (shorter in male flower). Calyx cupular, sub- 

 entire or 4, 5-dentate. Tube of hypocrateriform corolla terete, throat 

 glabrous ; lobes of limb 4, 5, elongate thickly 3-gonalj valvate or 

 subreduplicate, finally patent. Stamens same in number enclosed (in 

 female flower effete or 0); filaments short; anthers dorsifixed near 

 base elongate introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower effete) 

 2-celled ; disk various thick obconical or depressed rather concave ; 

 style slender, fusiform- 2-lobed stigmatose above enclosed. Ovules in 

 cells solitary descending, incompletely anatropous ; micropyle introrse 

 ventral, sometimes inferior. Fruit baccate globose or ovoid ; cells 1, 

 2, 1-spermous. Seed subglobose, oftener unequal, ventrally attached ; 

 albumen copious dense ; cotyledons of vertical or more or less obhque 

 embryo ovate or reniform ; radicle elongate inferior. — Shrubs oftener 

 glabrous; branches sub-4-gonal (pale); leaves opposite, oblong- 

 lanceolate coriaceous, shortly petiolate ; stipules intrapetiolar rather 

 broad and large cuspidate ; flowers ^ in axillary or subterminal 

 umbelliform cymes.^ [South east, trop. Asia, Ind. ArchipJ) 



68. Damnacanthus G^rtn. f.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or more 

 rarely polygamous, 4, 5-merous ; lobes of calyx pointed, persistent. 

 Throat of funnel-shaped corolla glabrous ; lobes 4, 5, thick- 3-gonal, 

 valvate. Exserted stamens &c. oi Prismatomeris. Germen 2-4-celled ; 

 disk epigynous rather thick ; branches of slender style 2-4, recurved 

 obtuse papillose. Ovules in cells solitary, descending, incompletely 

 anatropous or suborthotropous. Fruit drupaceous ; ^ putamens 1-4, 

 chartaceous, 1-spermous. Seeds descending; albumen homy copious; 

 radicle of more or less oblique embryo inferior. — Very ramose shrubs ; 

 ramules partly sterile spinescent ; leaves opposite (small), scarcely 

 petiolate, ovate-acuminate coriaceous rigid glabrous; stipules intra- 

 petiolar, 2, 3-cuspidate ; flowers ^ axillary or subterminal, sohtary or 



^ Hook. Kew Jourii. viii. 268, t. 7 ; Enum. PL 29, iv.; cxxxiv.-9. 



Zeyl. 154, 421.— B. H. Gen. ii. Ill, n. 250.— H. ^ Frtict. iii. 18, 1. 182, fig. 7.— DC. Prodr. iv. 



Bn. Adansonia, xii. 200.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 159. 473.— Endl. Geii. n. 3178.— B. H. Gen. ii. 118, 



2 Moderate, white. n. 249.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 322. — Hook. 



3 A genus very near Canthium (of which per- Fl. Ind. iii. loS.—£aumannta DC. Pi. Rar. Jard. 

 haps a sect.) differing chiefly in apex of style Genkv. vi. 1, t. 1, 25.— Endl. Gen. n. 3189. 

 and peculiar character of ovule and seed. • " Red." 



4 Spec. 1,2. RoxB. FL Ind. i. 538 {Coffea).— '' White, moderate, odorous. 

 Bedd. Ic. Fl. Ind. Or. t. 39 ; FL Sylv. S. Ind. t. 



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