RUBIACE.^. 455 



albuminous. — Thick glabrous shrubs ; ^ leaves opposite petiolate, 

 elliptico-oblong coriaceous thick ; stipules intrapetiolar oblong, connate 

 in a deciduous sheath ; flowers ^ in contracted compound capituliform 

 terminal thick-pedunculate cymes ; bracts thick connate under inflo- 

 rescence in a dilated or small involucre.^ [Trap. America,^ " Gnrgona 

 is.") 



118. Lucinsea DC.'^ — Flowers (nearly of Schradera) spuriously 

 capitate; calyx entire, sometimes very short. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 barbate at throat ; lobes of limb 4, 5, thick-3-gonal, valvate. Stamens 

 4, 5, enclosed; filaments short; anthers dorsifixed, obtuse or 2-dentate 

 at apex ; cells introrsely rimose, free at base. Germen 2-celled ; 

 style branches 2, stigmatose ; disk epigynous thick ; ovules oo, inserted 

 on subpeltate ovate placenta. Fruit baccate ; seeds oo, smooth, 

 albuminous. — Glabrous erect or climbing shrubs ; ^ leaves opposite 

 petiolate oblong coriaceous ; stipules interpetiolar short or intrapetiolar 

 oblong connate ; flowers'' in compound contracted capituliform axillary 

 and terminal, solitary or umbellate cymes. ^ {Ind. Archip.^) 



119. Leucocodon Gardn.'" — Flowers spuriously capitate (nearly 

 of Schradera), 5-merous; calyx gamophyllous tubular, irregularly 

 fissous above, persistent. Lobes of funnel-shaped corolla 5, valvate, 

 induplicate ; throat glabrous. Germen 2-celled ; disk orbicular ; 

 branches of slender style 2 obtuse, stigmatose wdthin and at revolute 

 margins. Ovules oo , inserted on subpeltate placenta. Fruit ' ' baccate 

 oblong. Seeds oo, compressed or occasionally concave, albuminous. 

 — A climbing epiphytal radicant shrub ; leaves opposite oblong 

 petiolate; stipules intrapetiolar oblong large, connate at base, 2- 

 dentate ; flowers ^' in contracted capituliform terminal cymes ; bracts 



* " Subepiphytal (pseudoparasitic) ;" branches '-> Prodr. iv. 368. — B. H. Gen. ii. 67, n. 10". — 



radicant fragile, nigrescent on the decay of the Hook. FL Ind. iii. 9Z.—Ltteia//ta Exdl. Gn/. n. 



entire plant. " ' ' 3283. 



2 " White," small. ^ Nigrescent on decay. 



3 Is Uncariopsis (Karst. FL Colowb. i. 181, t. ^ White, moderate. 



90.— B. H. Gen. ii. 67, n. 106), a Venezuelan » Inflorescence and habit of M>rinda, but 



shrub, unknown tons, with "habit of ilf or/: W<7," flowers free as in Appunia and ovules go. A 



globose capituliform loug pedunculate inflo- genus also very near Schradera. 



rescence; germen 2-celled; fruit unknown, a ^ Spec. 2, 3. Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 197; 



sect, of this genus ? Suppl. 217, 540 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 187. 



< Spec. 3, 4. Benth. Sulph. £ot. 106, t. 40.— >" Calc. Jouni. Nut. Mist. vii. 6.— B. H. Gett. 



Gkiseb. FL Brit. JF.-Ind. 319 ; Cat. FL Cub. ii. 67, n. 108.— Hook. FL Ind. iii. 93. 



123.— Walp. Rep. vi. 51. '^ Small; white. 



