RUB I ACE JE. 441 



capitnliform cymes at top of peduncle ; females solitary decussately 

 4-bracteate ^ or cymose few. {East, India, Cochin China, Malaya,"^) 



96. Scyphostachys Thw.^— Flowers small hermaphrodite (nearly 

 of Pouchetia or Petunga), 4-merous ; corolla narrow funnel-shaped ; 

 lobes of limb 4, contorted, recurved ; throat villose. Stamens 4 ; 

 filaments very short or ; anthers enclosed ; hairs of corolla throat 

 collected in compressed masses alternating with stamens. Germen 

 2-celled; ovules few (often to 4). Berry ovoid-oblong; seeds few, 

 descending, richly albuminous ; testa sulcate ; '' cotyledons of eccentric 

 embryo small." — Erect ramose shrubs; leaves opposite oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate coriaceous ; stipules intrapetiolar acuminate, 

 connate at base ; flowers * in axillary or supra- axillary amentiform 

 spikes, sessile and involucrate with younger connate imbricate early 

 deciduous bracts.^ (Geijlon.^) 



97. Canephora J.^ — Flowers small hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Genipa) ; receptacle obovate ; calycinal teeth 5, or more rarely 3-6, 

 acute. Lobes of nearly funnel-shaped corolla 5 (or 4, 6) contorted ; 

 throat glabrous or sHghtly pubescent. Stamens same in number, 

 inserted in throat ; anthers subsessile, introrse. Germen 2-celled ; 

 lobes of rather thick style 2, approximate stigmatiferous. Ovules in 

 cells 00 , often few, compressed. Fruit "baccate pealike coriaceous ;" 

 seeds . . , ? — A shrub ; leaves opposite elliptical acuminate coriaceous 

 glabrous ; stipules connate with petioles, 3-angular ; flowers ® com- 

 pound cymose at top of compressed alate leaf-like peduncle ; pedicel 

 very short ; bracts and bracteoles stipuliform shortly imbricate in an 

 involucre under flowers. (Madagascar.^) 



98. Hypobathrum Bl.^^ — Flowers small, hermaphrodite or very 

 rarely 1 -sexual; receptacle obconical or obovoid. Calyx short 



* Bracts opposite calyx lobes. — Poir. Suppl. ii. 77.— J. Gen. 208; M^n. Mus. 

 ' Spec. 2, 3. Wall. Cat. n. 8433 (part), 8434 vi. 401.— Eich. Rub. U\.—BG. Prod,: iv. 617. 



{}Iorindu).—Ysu'Rz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 52. — Endl. Gen. n. 3284.— B. H. Gen. ii. 74, n. 



3 Eimm. PI. Zeyl. 157.— B. H. Gen. ii. 94, n. 129.— H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 199. 



181.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 122. « Small, white ? 



* Small or very small. • Spec. 1. C. axillaris LAivnc. 



* A genus with the hahit of Lasianthus, differ- " Bijdr. 1007 (1826).— Eich. Rub. 118.— DC. 

 ing chiefly in germen being pluriovulate. Prodr. iv. 451. — Exdl. Gen. n. 3186. — B. H. 



« Spec. " 2." Bedd. Icon. PL Ind. Or. t. 240 ; Gen. ii. 93, n. 177.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 201. 



Fl. Sylv. t. 16, vi. ; cxxxiv. —Ncscidia Eich. Rub. 112.— DC. Prodr. iv. 477. 



7 Gen. 208.— Lamk. III. t. 151, fig. 1 (not 2). —Endl. Gen. n. 3172.— II. Bn. Ik. dt. 204.— 



