RUBIACE^. 439 



girt at base with cupular 2-plicate involucel ; pericarp 4-celled,* 

 00 -spermous. Seeds rather large horizontal flat ; testa thin sub fibrous- 

 cellulose." — Small glabrous trees; leaves^ opposite oblong petiolate 

 obtuse coriaceous ; nerves divaricate ; stipules intrapetiolar connate 

 in cupule ; flowers ^ in erect terminal glomeruliferous spikes.* 

 {Amazonian regions,^) 



92. Pouchetia A. Kich.^ — Flowers small (nearly of Genipa) 

 hermaphrodite, 5-merous; calyx short, acute dentate. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, contorted ; throat glabrous. Stamens 5, inserted in throat ; 

 anthers subsessile elongate enclosed or semiexserted acuminate ; cells 

 introrse, rimose, free at base. Germen 2-celled ; cells incomplete 

 above, oo -ovulate ; ovules 2-seriate on each placenta ; disk epigynous 

 annular ; .branches of slender style 2, rather thick, exserted or enclosed. 

 Fruit baccate ; seeds oo , compressed, unequally 3-angular ; testa 

 externally fibrous, longitudinally filamentose-sulcate ; embryo small, 

 rich in albumen. — Glabrous shrubs ; ramules virgate ; leaves opposite 

 oblong petiolate ; stipules intrapetiolar connate, 3-angular ; flowers '^ 

 in cymiferous racemes, pedicellate; bracteoles minute.^ (Trop. loest, 

 Africa.') 



93. Petunga DC.^^— Flowers small, hermaphrodite or rarely 1- 

 sexual (nearly of Genipa or Pouchetia), 4, 5-merous ; calyx dentate, 

 persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes of limb oblong, contorted ; 

 throat villose. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat ; anthers subsessile 

 dorsifixed exserted ; connective rather thick at apex ; cells free below, 

 rimose. Germen 2-celled ; cells complete or incomplete. Ovules few, 

 sometimes 2, or oo , descending. Disk entire or 2-lobed ; branches of 

 slender style 2, densely pilose. Berry (small) ; seeds few imbricate ; 

 testa sulcate; albumen fleshy. — Yirgate glabrous shrubs; leaves 

 opposite petiolate; stipules intrapetiolar connate, 3-angular; flowers^^ 



* " ? Always " (Hook. f.). ^ A genus allied on the one hand to Chape- 

 '^ " Under the lens granular, reddish- brown Hera, on the other to Cofea ; from the latter it 



on drying." differs chiefly in cells being oo -ovulate. 



3 "White or yellow," small. ^ Spec. 2. G. Don, Gen. Si/st. iii. 159, n. 20 



* A genus very near to Amaioua, differing {Wendlandia). — Hiern. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 116. 

 chiefly in spikelike inflorescence. —Wklv. Ann. ii. 793 (part). 



5 Spec. 2, 3. Spruce, exs. n. 661, 2696, 2891, i* Prodr. iv. 398.— Endl. Gen. n.3289.— B. H. 

 3142, 3322, 3346 {Schradera). Gen. ii. 93, n. 178.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 120.— 



6 Rub. 171.— DC. Vrodr. iv. 393 — Enpl. Gen. Eigginsia Bl. Bljdr. 988 (not Pers.).— ^^tVi^- 

 3294.— B. H. Gen ii. 92, n. 175. laria Rich. Rub. 172. 



^^. 329^ 



Small, "greenish- white." 'i White. 



