RUBIACE^. 457 



baccate, sometimes crowned with calyx. Seeds oc, more or less 

 crowded in a mass, small, unequal- angled ; albumen fleshy ; radicle 

 of straight or curved embryo elongate ; cotyledons suborbicular, ovate 

 or obovate. — Small trees or shrubs, often pilose; leaves opposite 

 petiolate obovate or ovate-lanceolate, striated with crowded veinules ; 

 stipules interpetiolar, elongate or lanceolate, oftener caducous or 

 deciduous ; flowers ' axillary in pedunculate, often few-flowered, 

 sometimes 1-flowered cymes. {Trop. N. and S. America.'^) 



122. Pentagonia Benth.^ — Flowers 5, 6-merous (nearly of 

 Genipa) ; receptacle cylindrical or subcampanulate. Calyx spatha- 

 ceous-4-6-lobed; lobes equal or unequal, imbricate. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped-tubular, glabrous within or with the tube variously pilose ; 

 throat glabrous ; lobes of limb 4-6, obtuse thick, valvate. Stamens same 

 in number, inserted at bottom of tube ; filaments unequal, often villose 

 at base, straight, flexuose or much recurved; anthers ovate- oblong 

 dorsifixed, often finally reflexed ; cells introrsely rimose, free below. 

 Germen 2-celled ; disk annular or cupular ; style unequally 2-lobed 

 at apex ; lobes subovate obtuse complanate stigmatiferous. Ovules cxd, 

 inserted on oblong placentas adnate to septum, oo -seriate. Fruit 

 ''baccate," spherical or ovoid. Seeds oo, obtuse-angled, albuminous. 

 — Shrubs, sometimes but rarely twining; leaves opposite (large), 

 entire or sometimes pinnatifid,'* venose-lineate, petiolate ; ^' stipules 

 large lanceolate;" flowers^ in axillary sessile or pedunculate com- 

 pound corymbiform cymes, bracteate/ {Trop. America?) 



123. Gouldia A. Gray.^ — Flowers generally 4-merous; receptacle 

 obconical or obovoid. Calyx short dentate. Corolla hypocrateriform ; 

 lobes 4, thick, 3-angular, valvate.^ Stamens 4, inserted in tube or 

 throat ; filaments short or rather long ; anthers dorsifixed elongate 

 introrse, 2-rimose ; connective apiculate, oftener exserted. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk annular ; branches of slender style 2, linear-acute 



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1 Rather lai'ge, white, often odorous ; corolla * A genus reaembling Genipa ; corolla val- 

 generally sericeous, pilose or pubescent without vate. 



2 Spec, about 10. Kaust. loc. cit. i. t. 17. — ^ Spec. 5, 6. Seem. Uer.Bot. t. 28 ; Hook. Lov. 

 Walp. Hep. vi. 77 {'Soiimera). Jouni. vii. t. 18.— Hook. f. Jiot. Mag. t. 5230. 



=* Stdph. Bot. 105, t. 39.— B. H. Gen. ii. 78, n. —Walp. Ann. ii. 798. 



\i2.—Meffaphi/lfu)H8vuvcK, Herb. u. 6230. ■ ^ Pruc. Ainer. Acad. iv. 310. — B. H. Gai. ii. 



^ Nearly oi Arttcarpm incisa. 11, n. 139. 



Large, red, yellow or greenish. ^ One lobe occasionally somewhat exterior. . 



