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obcoiiical solid. Calyx tubular coriaceous thick, subcntire at truncate 

 margin. Corolla long-funnel-shaped coriaceous; tube elongate, at 

 throat dilated tomentose; lobes of limb (acute in bud) oftener 8, 

 acute-acuminate, closely contorted, finally reflexed. Stamens 8, 

 inserted in throat ; filaments very short ; anthers dorsifixed at base 

 oblong, pointed at both ends, 2-fid at base ; connective thick ; cells 

 linear introrse, longitudinally rimose. Disk epigynous short annular- 

 depressed. Style erect ; lobes 2, oblong papillose. Female flower . . . ? 

 — ''Drupe pea-shaped, crowned with calyx, 6, 7-pyrenous; pyrenes 

 crustaceous, dorsally and laterally carinate, 1-spermous; seeds . . . ?" 

 — A very tall glabrous tree; leaves opposite oblong membranous, 

 narrowed to petiole ; stipules intrapetiolar connate in a cupule ; 

 flowers ^ in scantily ramose corymbiform cymes.^ {Guiana,^) 



SS ? Phitopis Hook, f.'^ — Flowers nearly of Genipa ; calyx gamo- 

 sepalous campanulate unequally lobed or dentate, sericeous or hirsute, 

 valvate, persistent (?), Corolla subcampanulate ; lobes 5 (more rarely 

 4, 6), obtuse, closely contorted, sericeous; throat pilose. Stamens 

 same in number, inserted in throat ; filaments short or subnil ; anthers 

 oblong introrse semiexserted, 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled ; disk 

 epigynous thick depressed ; style branches 2, short obovate obtuse. 

 Ovules in cells oo , inserted on thick vertical obpyramidal 2 -lobed 

 placenta. Fruit . . . ? — Small hispid- or sericeo-villose trees ; leaves 

 opposite subsessile obovate-lanceolate acute; nerves subparallel 

 divergent ; stipules 2, free, deciduous ; flowers ^ in compound racemi- 

 form 3-chotomous cymes ; cymules 3-florous ; bracts broad subinvo- 

 lucrant spathaceous sericeous ; bracteoles smaller conformed.^ {East, 

 VeruJ) 



89 ? Billiottia DC.^ — Flowers nearly of Genipa (or Amaioua), 

 dioecious ; calyx ^ of males campanulate ; lobes 5 (or more rarely 4), 

 acute recurved, equal or unequal ; denticules as many alternate. Lobes 



» Large, showy. « A genus apparently very near to Goiipa. 



2 A genus imperfectly known ; male flowers 7 Spec. 1 (v. 2 ?). Spkuce, exs. n. 4319, 



only examined by us ; apparently very near to 4834 {Hippotis). 



Genipa. A congener of Rhyssocarpus ? » .Prodr. iv. 618 (not Coll. nor R. Br.).— B. 



^ ^jyQC.l. K.insignisYiSGYi.-Gardeniaintegra H. Gen. ii. 80, n. U5.—Melanopsidium Gels 



Rich. Rub. l&l. — Patima? laxiflora Benth. (not PoiT.).— Enbl. Gen. u. 3328.— Ttna/na 



Book. Journ. Bot. iii. 220. Coll. Mem. Svc. Linn. Far. iv. 25, t. 2 (not of 



* Icon. t. 1093 ; Gen. ii. 84, n. 157. others). 



* White, moderate. " Darkening on decaying. 



