434 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



mannia), sometimes constricted at mouth {BTjrsophyUum) or perceptibly 

 attenuate {Sjjhinctantlms) ; throat glabrous or variously pilose ; lobes 

 of limb 4-10, closely contorted. Stamens same in number, enclosed 

 or exserted, inserted in throat or tube of corolla ; cells introrse, rimose, 

 continuous or more or less locellate {Anomanthodia, Dictyandra), obtuse 

 or apiculate. Germen 2 -celled ; cells incomplete (Gardenia) , or 

 complete {Bandia), more rarely 1, or more than 2 (Morelia), oo - 

 ovulate ; disk epigynous various ; style simple, at apex stigmatose 

 variously dilated and 2-lobed, often fusiform or entire (Mitrio stigma). 

 Fruit (large or small) fleshy, coriaceous (Heinsia), indehiscent or 

 breaking irregularly, sometimes with hard 2-5-valved endocarp. Seeds 

 various, either ovoid, or oftener unequally-angled, sometimes short- 

 winged [Genipella, Paragenipa) ; albumen fleshy or horny ; cotyledons 

 of axile embryo narrow or rather broad. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes 

 climbing ; leaves generally opposite petiolate entire coriaceous, oftener 

 glabrous, veins sometimes crowded oblique lineolate (Casasia) ; stipules 

 intrapetiolar or rarely interpetiolar, sometimes large, entire, obtuse 

 or acuminate or cuspidate ; flowers axillary or terminal, solitary or few 

 cymose, rarely numerous, often large or rather large, more rarely small 

 or (Paragenipa, Randiella) very small. (All trop, regions.) — See p. 305. 

 82. Amaioua Aubl.^ — Flowers of Genipa, dioecious or polygamous; 

 calyx truncate, dentate or with calycinal lobes exterior to tube. Lobes 

 of corolla 4-8, closely contorted, and as many stamens. Germen 

 2-8-celled ; cells complete or incomplete. Fruit baccate, sometimes 

 corticate, glabrous or hispid ; seeds oo , albuminous. Other characters 

 of Genipa, — Trees or shrubs, glabrous, sericeous or hispid; leaves 

 opposite or rarely 3-n,ate, sessile or petiolate; stipules interpetiolar; 

 flowers ^ terminal solitary or in more or less contracted corymbiforni 

 or capituliform cymes. ^ {Trop. America.'^) 



1 Guian. Suppl. 13, t. 375.— J. MSm. Mus. vi. loc. cit. 251.—?Ehrenberffia Spreng. Syst. ii. 12 



391.— Rich. Jii(b. 169.— DC. Ann. Mus. ix,218 ; (ex Endl.).— ? Garapatica Karst. Fl. Colwnl. i. 



Prodr. iv. 369.— Endl. Gen. n. 3314.— B. H, 57, t. 28 (ex B. H.). 



Gen.\\.%l,n.li^.—R.'Qi^. Bull. Soc. Linn. Far. 2 father large, white or straw-coloured, 



1^Q.—J)iAroia L. F. 30, 209.— B. H. Gen. ii. 82, sometimes " sweet-scented." 



n- \dO.—EexactinaW. Eel. ex Sch. Syst. vii. 91. 3 Ratlier a sect, of Genipa, flowers generally 



—Alibertia Rich. Hub. 154, 1. 11, fig. 1.— Endl. not hermaphrodite ? 



Gen. n. ^229. —Melanopsidium Poit. (ex Rich.). 4 Spec, ahout 40. H. B. K. Ncv. Gen. et Sp. 



— GenipeUa L.-C. Rich, (ex Endl.).— B. H. Gen. iii. t. 294.— Desf. M&m. Mus. vi. t. 4, 6.— P<epp. 

 ii. 81, n. U^.—Cordiera Rich, loc.eit. 142, t. 10, et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. t. 230.— Benth. 

 fig. 2.— DC.Pro<?r.iv. 445.— Endl. 6^m. n. 3220. Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 221.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. 



— Gardeniola Cham. Linna'a ix, 2i7 .—Scepseo- W.-Ind. 318, 319 {Cordiera) ; Cat. Fl. Cub. 123 

 t/iamnus Cham, loc.eit. 2i8.— Thit;leodo:vaCuAU. {Alibcrtia).^G. de Mello, Trans. Linn. Soc. 



