RUB I ACE ^. ub 



102. Bertiera Aubl.' — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous ; 

 receptacle obconical or subspherical. Calyx cupular entire or 5-clentate 

 or lobed. Corolla ^ fuimel-shaped ; tube often sericeous ; lobes of limb 

 5, ovate-acute, closely contorted or more rarely imbricate (1 interior ; 

 1 exterior). Stamens 5, inserted in throat or tube, sometimes near 

 base of corolla ; filaments short or subnil ; anthers enclosed introrse, 

 thinly apiculate or appendiculate ; cells rimose, free at base. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk annular or cupular ; style fusiform suben^ire or divided 

 into 2 thick or thin stigmatiferous branches. Ovules oo , inserted on 

 slightly prominent placenta sometimes thickly stipitate and affixed to 

 septum. Fruit oblong or fusiform, fleshy or coriaceous. Seeds oo , 

 angular, externally granular or foveolate ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 of straight or curved embryo ovate. — Small trees or shrubs, glabrous 

 or variously clothed ; leaves opposite petiolate oblong-acuminate ; 

 stipules intrapetiolar connate ; sheath sometimes large unequally 

 divided; flowers^ in axillary, often pendent, pedunculate, compound 

 cymiferous racemes, sometimes sessile ; cymes sometimes 1-parous. 

 (Trop. America^ trop. cont. and east, trop, ins. Africa.'^) 



103. Hamelia Jacq.^ — Flowers generally hermaphrodite; recep- 

 tacle ovoid or obconical, sometimes costate. Calyx gamophyllous ; 

 folioles at base or scarcely connate, sometimes rather large, ^ persistent. 

 Corolla narrow- tubular or subcampanulate, sometimes dilated at base 

 and sometimes narrowed a little above, longitudinally costate ; limb 5, 

 6-lobed, often short, imbricate. Stamens 5, 6, alternate, inserted in 

 tube of corolla, sometimes at base ; filaments free or very shortly 

 connate at base ; anthers elongate narrow basifixed introrse, 2-rimose, 

 enclosed or exserted ; connective slightly produced beyond cells. 

 Germen^ 2-6-celled; cells 2-6,^ oo -ovulate; disk epigynous thick- 



1 Guian. i. 180, t. 69.— Lamk. III. t. 165.— iii. 82.— Walp. Eep. ii. 517; vi. 73; Ann. ii. 

 G;i<;rtn. f. Fmct. iii. t. 192.~J. Metn. Mus. vi. 793. 



390.— Rich. Rub. 173, t. 13, fig. 1.— DC. Prodr. « St. Amer. 71, t. 50 ; Ic. Ear. t. 335.— G^utn. 



iv. 391 (part).- Ekdl. Gen. n. 3295.— B.H. Gen. f. Fmct. iii. 63, t. 191, 196.— Rich. Rub. 147.— 



ii. 77, n. 138.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. U\.—Poma- DC. Prodr. iv. 441.— Endl. Gen. n. 3228.— B.H. 



tiumGjEKi^.-F.Fruct.\\\.2Q2,i.225.—'DQ.Frodr. Gen. ii. 75, n. 134.— H. Bn. Adansonia, i. 374. 



iv. 391.— Endl. G^en. n. S296.—Zaluzama Comm. —Tangaraca Adans. Fam. Fl. ii. 147 (1763).— 



(ex G^RTN. F. Fruct. t. 192, f. 6). Fuhamelia Pers. Synops. i. 203. — ? Tepesia 



2 Acute in "bud. G^rtn. f. Fiuct. iii. 72, t. 192. 

 •" Small, white or greenish. ^ Sometimes coloured. 



* Spec, ahout 15. Griseb. FL Brit. W.-Ind. ^ Sometimes coloured externally. 



321.— G. Don, Gen. Syat. iii. 519 ( Wendlandiu). « Lobes of corolla, when the same in number, 



— Bak. Fl. Mnur. 141. — HiERii, Fl. Trop. Afr. opposite. 



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