440 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



in axillary simple slightly ramose spikes, in axils of bracts solitary or 

 cymose few, 2-bracteolate. {India, Malaya, Ind. ArcMp}) 



94. Pernelia Commers.^ — Flowers small (nearly of Genipa or 

 Pouchetia), 1-sexual, oftener 4-merous; teeth of calyx elongate; 

 corolla shortly hypocraterifqrm, contorted. Stamens inserted in throat 

 of corolla or a little lower ; anthers subsessile introrse acute (in female 

 flower sterile, sometimes suhspherical, or 0). Germen 1 -celled; disk 

 annular ; branches of short style 2, linear-elongate stigmatose (in male 

 flower minute or 0). Ovules oo . Berry small coriaceous; seeds oo , 

 obtusely angular, densely albuminous. Other characters of Poiwhetia 

 or Vetunga. — Very ramose glabrous shrubs ; leaves opposite (small) 

 coriaceous, orbicular, obovate or oblong ; stipules interpetiolar small ; 

 flowers small axillary, solitary, 2-nate or few cymose ; pedicels short 

 or subnil; bracteoles connate in a dentate calycule under flower. 

 (Mascarene Is., Seychelles,^ ? Ind. Archip.^) 



95. Morindopsis Hook, f.^ — Flowers small dioecious ; receptacle 

 of males short subhemispherical. Calyx short, 4-dentate, alternately 

 imbricate.^ Lobes of subcampanulate corolla 4, contorted; throat 

 villose. Stamens 4, inserted in throat; anthers sessile dorsifixed 

 enclosed acuminate, 2-rimose. Germen minute sterile; disk thick 

 convex; branches of short style 2, pubescent. Keceptacle of female 

 flower oblong, sulcate and costate ; teeth of persistent cupular calyx 

 4, acute. Corolla of males. Staminodes 4, inserted on corolla. 

 Germen 2 -celled ; ovules oo , peltate ; thick style and disk of males. 

 Fruit crowned with calyx, straight or curved, oblong- fusiform ; pericarp 

 thin subcoriaceous obtusely sulcate, indehiscent. Seeds oo, compressed, 

 imbricate ; embryo .... ? — Glabrous or slightly pubescent shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite elliptical or lanceolate subcoriaceous ; petiole short or 

 ; stipules interpetiolar short coriaceous cuspidate, persistent; flowers' 

 axillary or somewhat supra-axillary pedunculate ; males in contracted 



» Spec. 3, 4. RoxB. Fl. Ind. l U4. {Randia).— 92, n. 176.--Baker, Fl. Maurit. U2.—mver- 



MiQ. FL lud.-Bat. ii. 200;^Suppl. 217; Ann. J?^;2m Commers. (ex Lamk.). 

 Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 130, 262.— Walp. Ann, ii. ' ^ gp^c. 2, 3. Baker, Fl. Maurit. 142.— Balf. 



792. F. Bot. Rodrig. 46, t. 23. 



2 /. Qen. 199; Mem. Mus. vi. 393.— Lamk. 4 Miq. FL Ind.-Bat. ii. 218. 



Bid. ii. 452 ; III. t, 67, fig. 1.— G^rtn. f. Friict. '" Gen. ii. 93, u. 179.— Hook. Fl. Id. iii. 121. 



iii. 61, 1. 191, 197.— Rich. Rub. 177.— DC. Frodr. « Lateral foliolts exterior. 



iv, 398.— Endl. Gen, n. 3290.— B. H. Gen. ii. ? White, small. 



