RUBIACE^. <t33 



compressed. Fruit subglobose or oblong ; cocci 2 solute from slender 

 axis or (Peutanisia). Seed descending, arillate above; albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons of axile embryo foliaceous ; radicle terete superior. 

 — Herbs, sometimes subshrubby, glabrous or variously clothed; 

 leaves opposite, petiolate or sessile, ovate or lanceolate; stipules 

 connate in a sheath oftener setose ; flowers ^ in terminal cymes, 

 sometimes more or less contracted and often finally spikelike (1 -parous 

 towards apex). {Africa, trop. Asia and Oceania,^) 



80 ? Synisoon H. Bn/ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle ovoid. 

 Calyx tubular subentire, hence finally longitudinally fissous. Corolla 

 tubular-funnel-shaped ; lobes of limb 5, closely contorted. Stamens 

 5 ; filaments inserted in hollows of corolla, subulate, at base dilated 

 complanate ; anthers exserted dorsifixed, introrsely rimose, versatile ; 

 connective apiculate; cells produced below in a foliaceous layer. 

 Germen 5- celled ; disk epigynous rather thick ; style slender, apex 

 exserted globose stigmatose, 5-lobulate above; lobes small acute, 

 finally reflexed. Ovules in cells 2, collaterally pendulous from short 

 funicle thickened at apex ; micropyle introrsely superior. Fruit . . . ? 

 — A tree (?); leaves opposite oblong petiolate; stipules interpetiolar 

 short connate ; flowers ^ in terminal corymbiform cymes. ^ (British 

 Guiana.^) 



VIII. GENIPE^. 



81. Genipa Plum. — Flowers hermaphrodite or l-sexual, 4, 5- 

 merous, or more rarely 6-10-merous ; calyx epigynous various, entire, 

 dentate, lobate, partite, or spathaceous, sometimes wide-foliaceous, 

 persistent or deciduous. Corolla funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform or 

 campanulate (Amaralia) ; tube sometimes short, or more rarely long 

 narrow (Griffithia) or very long slender {Lcptactinia, Tocoyena, Roth- 



' Pink or lilac, small. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 151.— W alp. Eep, ii. 468 ; Anv. 



2 Spec. 8-10. Wall. PL As. Ear. t. 32.— iii. 906. 



Wight, III. ii. t. 128.— Harv. and Sond. FL 3 Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 208. 



Cnp. iii. 24 (P<i«^a»wm).— HiERN, FL Trop. Afr. ^ Rather large, white. 



iii. 131 {PeHtanUia).—Kh. Ptt. Moss. Bot. 2«6 ^ ^ genus closely allied to none, somewhat 



{Peutaithia).—^liQ.. FL In.-Bat. ii. 329 ; Suppl. resembling Rttiniphyllum. But ovules descend- 



225, 550.— Benth. FL AuUraL iii. 438 ; FL ing ; micropyle introrsely superior. 



Hongk. 164.— F.MuELL.^rf/<?»r«.ix. 187.— Thw. ^ Spec. 1. S. Schumburgkianum H. Bn. 



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