RUBIACEJ^.. 451 



pericarp indehiscent or Ad ally loculicidal above. Seeds small cuneate 

 or subcubical spotted; embryo minute ovoid albmninous. — Feeble 

 shrubs; bark whitish secedent ; leaves opposite oblong acuminate 

 petiolate, membranous, oo-nerved; stipules interpetiolar entire or 

 2-dentate, persistent or deciduous ; flowers in axillary and terminal 

 compound-2-chotomous open cymiferous or glomeruliferous racemes ; 

 pedicels oftener slender; bracts sometimes glandular. (Trap, mount. 

 Asia, Lid. Archip}) 



111. Sabicea Aubl.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely polyga- 

 mous ; receptacle obconical or hemispherical. Calyx entire truncate 

 (Patima^), or 3-6-dentate or lobed ; lobes sometimes unequal, obtuse 

 or elongate acute ; denticules (stipulary ?) sometimes interposed. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform ; tube short or elongate ; 

 throat villose or pubescent ; lobes of limb 4-6, sometimes sericeous 

 within, short, obtuse or rather long acute (Patima), valvate. Stamens 

 as many, inserted in throat or tube of corolla ; filaments rather long, 

 short or ; anthers dorsifixed linear-oblong, introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Germen 2-6-cened ; cells * complete or incomplete ; branches of erect 

 style same in number stigmatiferous linear rather obtuse. Ovules oo, 

 inserted on tumid axile or parietal 2-lobed placentas. Fruit baccate, 

 coriaceous or fleshy ; cells 2-6, polyspermous ; seeds minute, some- 

 times angular; embryo clavate or terete albuminous. — Shrubs or 

 undershrubs, erect or oftener twining, more frequently tomentose; 

 leaves opposite oblong, petiolate or subsessile ; stipules intrapefciolar, ' 

 straight or recurved, often persistent ; flowers ^ axillary cymose or 

 glomerulate ; cymes sessile or pedunculate, often corymbiform, brac- 

 teate ; bracteoles sometimes O.'^ (Warm America, trap, ivest. and east, 

 ins. Africa.'') 



112 ? StipulariaP.BEAUV,^ — Flowers nearly of .Sa/>^<^€«,^5-merous; 



» Spec. 3, 4. Wall. Ji^xh. Fi. I>«i. ii. 138 opposite. 



(Rondelttia). — MiQ.. FI. Ind.-Bat. ii. 215 ; Suppl. ^ White, yellow, small. 



218 ; Ann. Mus. Lngd.-Bat. iv. 239. — Kurz, ^ a genus hence resembling Manettia. 



F r. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 54.— Walp. Ann. i. 376 ^ Spec, about 30. K. et Pav, Fi. Ptr. ii. t. 200, 



(Latna); v. VS6 (Bertieraj. fig. a {&clrwenkfelc/a).— Hook. Icon. t. 247. — . 



2 Guiaii. i. 192, t. 75, 76.— J. Mem. Mus. vi. Don, G,;n. St^st. iii. 605 (CV/?^«/*y).— Ghiseb. Fl. 



400.— Lamk. III. t. 165.— Rich. Ruh. 147 —DC. Brit. W.-Ind. 322 ; Cat. PL Cub. 124.— Hiern, 



/V/fl?r. iv. 439.— KNDL.6!e«.n. 3224.— B.H. G^^/^. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 74.— Walp. Etp. ii. 489; 



ii. 72, n. 121. — Schu-enkfeldn Schreb. Gen. 123. Ann. ii, 766. 



— Sehicenkfeldia W. Spec. i. 982.— P«/m Yell. ^ Fi. Ow. et Ben. ii. 26, t. 75 (not Haw.). 



i-V. i^<;</w. iii. t. 163 (exENDL.). —liicu. Rub. 117. — DC. Prcdr. iv. 619.— 



=* AUBL. Guian. i. 196, t. 77.— Rich. Rub. 150, Endl. Gen. 566, 2.— B. H. Gen. ii. 74, n. 



t. 15, fig. 2.— DC. Prodr. iv. 444.— Exdl. Gc. 128. 



n. 3232.— B.H. G^^-n. ii. 73, n. 125. ^ Of which perhaps rather a sect., bracta 



■* Corolla lobes, while the same in number, dilated to an iuvolucie. 



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