RUBIACEJR. 447 



intervening, solitary or 2-nate (stipules ?), sometimes glandular. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped or subcampanulate ; tube short ; throat gla- 

 brous ; lobes -of limb generally attenuate at margin {Euosmia), 

 imbricate, sometimes costate at back. Stamens as many alternate, 

 inserted in mouth or throat of corolla, sometimes near base of tube ; 

 filaments short, often complanate ; anthers dorsifixed oblong introrse, 

 2-rimose. Germen 2, 3 -celled ' ; disk epigynous annular or pulvinate ; 

 style slender more or less dilated above ; lobes stigmatose short or 

 more or less connate, sometimes scarcely distinct. Ovules in cells oo, 

 inserted on rather prominent sometimes 2-lobed placentas. Fruit 

 obovoid or oblong, fleshy or sometimes dry coriaceous {Xerococcus) , 

 costate or sulcate, 2-4-celled ; seeds crowded, sometimes angular, 

 reticulate or foveolate ; albumen fleshy ; embryo small straight, some- 

 times clavate. — Shrubs, undershrubs or herbs, sometimes pseudo- 

 parasitical (Xe/'ococcw6',Ojj/i7-?/oco6'C2^s), glabrous or villose {Ophrijococcus)\ 

 leaves opposite or more rarely verticillate, ovate or oblong lanceolate, 

 membranous ; petiole various, sometimes elongate ; stipules intra- 

 petiolar, often small or caducous or deciduous ; flowers ^ in terminal 

 cymes, sometimes axillary, or long and slenderly stipitate {Euosmia), 

 or subsessile; cymes contracted many-flowered {Xerococcus) or few- 

 flowered (Ophryococcus) ; peduncle sometimes short subfleshy (Xero- 

 coccus) ; bracts small or 0, sometimes (Xerococcus) with subconcrete 

 flowers.^ (Trop. N. and S. America.^) 



106. Catesbsea L.^ — Flowers (small) 4-merous ; receptacle ob- 

 conical or subcampanulate, sometimes 4-gonal. Lobes of cupular 

 calyx 4, subulate, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped or cylindrico- 

 campanulate ; tube sometimes 4-gonal, short or rather long ; throat 

 glabrous ; lobes of limb 4, short, imbricate.^ Stamens 4, inserted at 

 base of corolla ; filaments short or rather long ; anthers small narrow 

 or rather large (Phijllacantha ^), introrse. Germen 2-celled ; cells 

 complete or incomplete ; disk epigynous annular ; style slender 



^ Sometimes " 4-celled" in Euosmia. 5383 {Rigginsia). — Walp. Rep. ii. 515 ; Ann. v. 



2 Small, white, yellow or red or purplish, 133 [Higginsia,, Xerococcus), 134 {Ophryococcu.<i). 



sometimes sweet-scented. ^ Qen. n. 130. — J. Gen. 199 ; Mini. Mus. vi. 



^ Oiihii Qemis,\a CQxtdanly Etcosmia aggregata 393.— G^rtn. f. Fruct. iii. 67, t. 192. — Rich. 



SpiiENG. whose inflorescence is few-flowered. Rub. 176. — DC. Prodr. iv. 400. — Endl. Gen. n. 



" Spec, about 25. Link, Kl. et Ott. Ic. PL t. 3286.— B. H. Gen. ii. 78, n. 140. 



23 (ijf/y.9/«si«).— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. ^ Margin sometimes obliquely cut and sud- 



418 {Evosmia). — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ihd. 321. — denly attenuate, not truly valvate. 



Hemsl. Liagn.PLJSov.Mix. 30.— llhi. Mori. Fr. ^ Hook. f. Gcu. ii. 78, n. 141 ; Icoi. t. 1095. — 



(1863) t. 8 {Uigyinsia).—Bot. Mag. t.5280, 5346, H. Bn. BuV. Sac. Linn. Par. 182. 



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