RUBIACEJE. 435 



83 ? Rhyssocarpus Endl.' — Male flower . . . ? Receptacle of 

 solitary pedunculate female flower globose, longitudinally 10-1 2 -cos- 

 tate; ** ribs strong transversely rugose. Calyx 10-12-partite; lobes 

 linear- spathulate erect open. Corolla h^^pocrateriform coriaceous ; 

 tube short ; throat hirsute ; lobes of limb 5, acute, puberulous, con- 

 torted. Staminodes 5, 6. Disk fleshy. Germen globose, 4-celled ; 

 branches of short style, linear erect. Ovules oo , inserted on enlarged 

 peltate placentas, amphitropous. Berry subglobosetoruloso-costate . . . 

 — ^A branched shrub or small tree ; leaves opposite petiolate elliptico- 

 oblong acuminate ; stipules intrapetiolar connate in a ** finally fissous " 

 sheath, large deciduous.^ (Trop. America.^) 



84. Chapeliera A. Rich.* — Flowers small (nearly of Gcniiya), 

 5-merous ; receptacle obconical. Calyx lobes rigid acute, persistent. 

 Corolla closely contorted, glabrous within. Stamens 5, inserted in 

 throat; anthers dorsifixed, enclosed. Germen 2-celled; disk epigynous 

 annular ; style fusiform longitudinally sulcate. Ovules oo , oftener 

 few,^ inserted along margins of long ovate placenta afiixed to septum. 

 Fruit ovoid (small) baccate coriaceous, crowned with calyx; seeds 

 few, richly albuminous ; testa thick curvo-sulcate and densely fibrous. '^ 

 — A glabrous (evergreen) shrub; leaves opposite, shortly petiolate 

 elliptico- or oblong-acute coriaceous penninerved ; stipules interpetiolar 

 cuspidate, generally persistent; flowers^ in axillary or a little supra- 

 axillary contracted cymes, bracteolate; bracteoles conformed to 

 stipules.^ [Madagascar,^) 



85. Posoqueria Aubl.^** — Flowers nearly of Genipa, 5-merous; 

 corolla tube very long slender ; throat glabrous or variously pilose ; 

 limb before anthesis refracto-gibbous long-ovoid; lobes equal or 



xxviii. 519, t. 45 (AUbe}tia).—'WA-Lv. Hep. ii. 6 Yellow or golden. 



489 (Cordiera), 523 {Scepseothamnus), 524 {Gar- ' "White." 



detiiola, Thieleodoxa) ; vi. 77. ^ Rather a sect, of Genipa, very near Para- 



^ Bot. Zeit.(\M^) 4.0%; Gen. Suppl. 73.— B. ^j-mijoa, to bo distinguished chiefly for the nature 



H. Gen. ii. 29, 81, n. 148 a.—Fleurocarpus Kl. of its fibrous testa ? 



Bonplandia (1850), 3. ^ Spec. 1. C. madagascariensis Rich. — Tama- 



' A genus unknown to us ; rather a sect, of tavia Melleri Hook. f. 



Aimioiia, germen and fruit being costate. '° Guian. i. 133, t. 51.— J. Mem. Mus. vi. 389. 



3 Spec. 1. R. piibescens Endl. — Rich. Rah. 168 (not Wall.). — DC. Prodr. iv. 



^ Rub. 172 (part).— DC. Pr<?^r. iv. 389.— 375.— Endl. 6^^;*. n. 3308.— B. H. 6'^//. ii. 83, n, 



Endl. Oen. n. 3301.— B.H. Gen. ii. 96, n. 188.— \5Z.—SolenaW . Spec. i. 961.— Cyrtanthus Schr. 



11. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 200.— Tamatavia Gen.\22.—Ki/rla)ithusGiiEL.SyH.SQ2.—Po&oria 



Hook. f. Gen. ii. 92, n. 173. Rafin. Ann. Gen. Sc. Phys. vi. ^0,—Stannia 



* Sometimes 5. Kakst. Ausiv. N. Getc. 27, t. 9 ; PI. Col. t, 16, 25. 



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