RUB I ACE JR. U\) 



globose, obcoiiical or subcampanulate. Calyx short, entire, sinuate, 

 dentate or shortly 4-6-lobed. Corolla tubular, thick coriaceous, 

 sometimes externally granular or very plicate or tuberculate ; throat 

 barbate or villose ; lobes of limb short 4-6,^ valvate or imbricate, 

 sometimes barbate within ; alternate sinuses sometimes projecting 

 more or less outwards, 3-angular or auriculate. Stamens equal in 

 number to lobes of corolla, inserted in throat or tube ; filaments short ; 

 anthers dorsifixed ^ introrse, acute or acuminate, oftener enclosed, 

 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled (Cassupa ^) or oftener 4-6-celled ; disk 

 annular or cupular, sometimes thick ; style slender, 2-6-lobed stig- 

 matose at apex ; lobes thin or oftener thick, obovoid or plano-convex. 

 Ovules CD , inserted in axile sometimes 2-lobed placenta. Fruit 

 baccate or drupaceous ; cells or pyrenes 2-6, few- or many-seeded.- 

 Seeds small, often foveolate ; albumen fleshy ; embryo terete or clavate. 

 — Trees or shrubs, glabrous or variously clothed ; leaves opposite or 

 rarely 3, 4-nate, large coriaceous acuminate, often pale beneath ; 

 stipules interpetiolar connate, intrapetiolar or subfree ; flowers * in 

 terminal compound-cymiferous racemes ; pedicels bracteate and 

 bracteolate.^ (Trap. America.^) 



109. Mussaenda L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely polyga- 

 mous; receptacle obconical or oblong, sometimes subhemispherical. 

 Lobes of oftener scarcely gamophyllous calyx 5, 6, short or elon- 

 gate, erect or recurved, persistent or oftener deciduous ; one often 

 produced to a leaflike (coloured) petiolate lamina. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped ; tube elongate, externally often sericeous or hirsute, sometimes 

 enlarged above (Polysolenia ^) ; throat villose or glabrous ; lobes of 

 limb 5,- or more rarely 6, valvate, sometimes very reduplicate 

 (Acranthera^) . Stamens same in number; filaments inserted more 



fig. 2.— 1)C. Pr dr. iv. 437.— Endl. Gen.n. 1:2 'A. t. 48, 49 (2?/v«'//smff;/m).— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.- 



— B.H. Gin. ii. 65, n.\Ol.- Phomui has Rafin. L'd. 'Sl9.—WAhv.Jiep.n. 490; vi. 52; Anh. 



Aim. Fhijs. vi. 82. — BrignoHa DC. Prodr. iv. ii. 768. 

 AU.—Bniwsmauia MiQ. Lhiucea xvii. 72. ' Ge».n. 241.— J. Mem. Mux. vi. 386.— Gjjut. 



1 Rarely more numerous. Fruct. i. t. 28.— Lamk. III. t. 157.— Rich. Rub. 



2 Sometimes inserted at top of connective, 165. — DC. Prodr.iv. 370.— Endl. Qen.n.Z'iVi. 

 \v hence as if pendulous. — B. H. Ge.v. ii. 64, n. 98.— Bakeu, Fl. Maurit. 



3 H. B. PI. JE'iuiii. i. 43, t. 12.— Rich. Rub. 140.— IIook. Fl. Ind. iii. 86.— ia^rf/a Com.meks-. 

 170.— DC. Prodr. iv. 373.— Endl. Gm. n. 3311. (ex Rich.).— i?<?////« Rheed. Hort. Malab. ii. 27, 

 -B. H. Gen. ii. 65, n. 100 (corolla valvate). t. U.-Spallanzania DC. Prodr. iv. 406 (not 



•• White, yellow, or generally red or cocci- Poll, nor Neck.). 

 Tneous, often rather large showy. » Hook. f. Gtii. ii. 68, n. 109.— Hook. F 



^ A genus evidently connecting the Mnssae/i- Ind. iii. 94. 

 d-(s and Hcmeliece of authors. " Arn. Ann. Xat. Hist. iii. 20. - B. H. Go . 



«Spec. about 15. Vahl, Er.l. t. 15 — Aubl. ii. 64, n. 99.— Hook. Fl. Ind, iii. 9'2,—Andro 



Guian. t 123 {Gnettarda).—MiQ,. St. Surinam. tropin B. Br. Wall. Cat. n. 8398. 



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