43B NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



unequal, contorted or imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted at mouth of 

 corolla; filaments straight or curved, glabrous or hispid; anthers 

 introrse, sometimes coalite with each other ; cells sometimes unequal ; 

 connective produced below under cells to a simple or 2-lobed lamina. 

 Germen 2 -celled ; cells complete or incomplete, oo -ovulate ; disk 

 epigynous various, sometimes much produced; style slender, some- 

 times short, at apex stigmatose 2-fid. Fruit ^ baccate, often crowned 

 with calyx ; cells 1, 2, oo -spermous. Seeds angular, exappendiculate, 

 densely albuminous. — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 petiolate coriaceous; stipules intrapetiolar rather large, deciduous; 

 flowers^ in terminal corymbiform cymes. (Trop. America,^) 



86. Oxyanthus DC* — Flowers nearly of Genipa; calyx shortly 

 tubular or urceolate, 5-dentate. Tube of hypocrateriform corolla long 

 or oftener very long and slender; throat glabrous ; lobes of limb 5, 

 equal, closely contorted. Stamens 5, inserted at mouth or throat of 

 corolla; filaments short; anthers exserted, dorsifixed at base; 

 connective acuminate and generally produced in two lobes at base. 

 Germen 2-celled; cells often incomplete; disk epigynous annular; 

 style elongate very slender, clavate above and narrowly fusiform ; 

 lobes 2, stigmatose. Ovules in cells oo , inserted on axile or oftener 

 parietal 2-lobed placenta. Fruit baccate, 1 -celled, crowned with 

 calyx ; seeds oo , more or less angular or compressed ; albumen fleshy; 

 cotyledons of axile embryo foliaceous; radicle elongate. Other 

 characters of Genipa, — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite, sometimes 

 unequal at base ; petiole short ; stipules intrapetiolar various, 

 deciduous ; flowers ^ axillary in corymbiform cymes ; pedicels brac- 

 teolate.^ (Trop. and south, Africa.') 



87?Kotchubea Fisch.^ — Flowers dioecious; receptacle of males 



* Generally rather large. ^ A genus hence very near to Posoqiieria, 



2 White, yellowish, pink or coccineous, large thence to Genipa sect, of the Tocoyena, sorae- 

 showy, odorous. what also allied to Exost&tna, 



3 RuDG. G'wian. t. 40, 41 (ASo/e^ff). — Lindl. et 7 Spec, about lo. Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 18c 

 Paxt. Fl. Oard. i. 185, fig. 114.— Pl. FL Serr. {Gardenia). — Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. 10? 

 vi.l69, t. 587.— LiNDL. ^0^. i2^<7. (1841)t. 26.— ( Z7cria/ia).— Lindl. Collect, t. 13.— Harv. anc 

 Walp. Rep. ii. 520 ; Ti. 76 ; Ann. ii. 797. Sond. Fl. Gap. t. iii. 3.— Kl. Pet. Mo.^s. Bot. 292 



4 Ann. Mus. ix. 518; Prodr.iv. 376.— J. Mem. —Fl. Serr. ii. 148.— Hook. Icon. t. 785, 786.- 

 J/ws. vi. 390.— ENDL.G^^rt.n. 3307.— B.H.6re». Bexth. Mff. Fl. 388.— Hiern. Fl. Trop. A/r 

 ii. 91, n. 171.— Candellaria Smeathm. herb.— iii. 106.— ^o^. Magi. t. 1992, 4636.— Walp. Rej. 

 Megacarpha Hochst. Flora (1844), 551. vi. 73 {Meyacarpha). 



5 White or yellow, odorous, sometimes very ^ Y.s.DQt.Prodr.iw.ZlZ^KutchuliBa), — Exdi 

 long. G<in. n. 3312.-1). H. Gen. ii.93, n. 193. 



