BUBIACE^. 443 



free, small or developed, oftener in 1-4 calycules, superposed, entire 

 or dentate, connate in pairs under germen of flower.' {Trop. Africa 

 Asia and Oceania.^) 



99. Burchellia E. Br.'— Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle tur- 

 binate. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, persistent; lobes subulate subequal. 

 Corolla tubular ; lobes 5, acute oblique, contorted ; tube annular 

 short pilose within ; throat pilose. Stamens 5, inserted at middle of 

 tube; filaments short subulate; anthers elongate subbasifixed, un- 

 guiculate at apex, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled; disk 

 epigynous rather thick ; styles thickened at middle, minutely denti- 

 culate stigmatose at apex. Ovules oo , inserted on thick subpeltate 

 placenta. Fruit fleshy, crowned with somewhat accrete calyx ; seeds 

 00 , compressed-angular ; albumen densely fleshy ; cotyledons of axile 

 embryo complanate; radicle long terete. — A small tree or shrub; 

 leaves opposite oblong obtuse coriaceous penninerved, shortly petio- 

 late; stipules interpetiolar pointed ; flowers Mn contracted terminal 

 capituliform cymes. (South. Africa.^) 



100 ? riagenium H. Bn.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 oblong. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes linear-subulate, persistent (?). 

 Corolla^ funnel-shaped (?); lobes 5, closely contorted. Stamens 5, 

 inserted in corolla. Germen 2-celled ; style . . . ? Ovules in cells 

 few (oo ), inserted on small axile ellipsoid placenta; the upper 

 ascending; the lower descending,^ anatropous. Fruit fleshy (?), 



glabrous, oblong, crowned with calyx and rather longer than it." — 





' A genus in some respects allied to the small- ^ Bot. Reg. t. 466, 891. — ^icn. Rub. 180. — 



flowered Genipas, Chapeliera, Petunga, &c. in 1)0. Prodr. iv. 368. — Endl. (re«. n. 3315. — B. 



others to Galtniera, by the intervention of H. Gen. ii. 85, n. 158. — Bubalina Rafin. Ann. 



Nargedia ; the 1-ovulate species in particular Gen. Phys. vi. 86. — Cancjphora Lamk. (part, 



scarcely distingtiishable from Coffea. not J.). 



2 Spec, about 45. Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. * Coccineous or golden, 



iii. 22 {Kraimia), 23 {Bunburga).—MiQ,.Fl. Ind.- ^ Spec. 1. B, bubalina Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2339. 



Bat. ii. 236, 237 {Biplospora) ; 304 {Cofea, part). — B. capensis R. Br. — Harv. and Sond. FL Cap. 



— Benth. fl AustraL iii. 413 (Diplospora) ; FL iii. 3. — B. parvijiora Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 891. — 



Eongk. 157 {Diplospora). — Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. i. B. Kraussii Hochst. Flora (1842), 237.— Loni- 



t. 40 {Discospermum) ; Fl.Sylv. t. cxxxiv. 3 (Dj- ccra bubalina L.f. Suppl. 146. — Thuxb. FL Cap. 



plospora). — Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 158 {Pisco- 181. — Canephora capitata Lamk. III. t. 151, fig. 



spermum). — KuRZ, For. FL Brit. Burm. ii. 50. — 2. —Cephcelis bubalina Pers. Syn. i. 202, n. 12. 



HiERN, FL Trop. Afr. iii. 114 {Fmpogofia), 115 ^ ^^ni^ Soc. Linn. Par. 216. 



(Feretia), 117. — H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 225. — 7 Adult unknown. 



WAiJ?.Rep.\\.b\%{IIyptianthera)^o2o{Kramsia)', ^ One often quickly surpassing the rest, 



vi. 38 {Bwiburya), 47 (Kraussia)^ 701 {Hypti- ascending or descending ; micropyle constantly 



a)ithera)', Ann. i. 757 (Kraussia, Piplospora), contiguous to placenta. 

 796 {Discospermum) ; v. 132 {Rosea). 



