RUBIACEJE. 469 



(pale), petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar large foliaceous ; flowers 

 cymose, very shortly pedicellate ; cymes contracted terminal at top of 

 axillary ramule bearing in the middle a few leaves or 2 pairs of 

 stipuliform bracts ; involucre under flowers rather large consisting of 

 3 pairs of bracts ; the 2 lower, smaller ; the 2 intermediate, larger 

 foHaceous ; the 2 upper, shorter subcolouredJ {Madagascar.^) 



126 ? Gonianera Korth.^ — "Flowers 5-merous ; lobes of 5- 

 partite calyx ovate acute, open. Corolla tube short ; limb 5-partite, 

 valvate. Stamens 5, inserted in corolla tube ; filaments short ; 

 anthers linear connivent acute, exserted. Germen elongate angular ; 

 disk . . . ? ; style terete, clavate stigmatose above ; ovules oo, inserted 

 on cylindrical placentas affixed to septum by means of a lamina. 

 Berry 2 -celled ; seeds oo, small compressed. — A small tree ; leaves 

 opposite elliptical, long-petiolate ; stipules sheathing ; flowers axillary 

 bracteate." {Sumatra.'^) 



127 PLasiostoma Benth.^ — Flowers 4-merous ; " receptacle 

 urceolate. Calyx entire, persistent. Tube of funnel-shaped corolla 

 short ; throat hispid with membranous scales ; lobes of limb 4, at 

 base scaly within, valvate. Stamens 4, inserted in tube, subenclosed." 

 Germen inferior, 2-celled ; ovules oo ; disk thick. ''Style filiform; 

 stigma clavate." Fruit drupaceous,^ oo-spermous. — Glabrous shrubs;' 

 ramules thick fleshy; leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, oblong or 

 obovate entire coriaceous thick, scarcely nervate ; stipules short 

 sheathing, finally breaking vanishing ; "flowers in nodelike axillary 

 sessile capitules ; germens merged with bracts within capitule." ^ 

 {dSew Ireland, New Guinea,^) 



128 ? Praravinia Korth.^*^ — Flowers polygamous or monoecious ; 

 receptacle subcampanulate. Calyx 4-6-partite ; folioles widely ovate 



^ A genus imperfectly known, apparently ^ Baccate according to distinguished authors ; 



very near Myrimeuron ; flowers nenrl}' of Pen- but we have seen the putamen rather hard and 



tanUia, but cells oo-ovulate. tolerably distinct within pericarp, thin maybe. 



2 Spec 1. P. conspicua H. Bn. ' With habit of some species of Loranthus or 



3 Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 1«3.— B. H. Gen. ii. ^schynanthus. 



75, n. \Z\.— ?Gardeniopsis MiQ. Ann. Mus. s A very doubtful genus ; specimens in Kew 



Lugd.'Bat. iv. 250, 262 (ex Miq.). Herbarium destitute of flowers and otherwise 



■» Spec. 1. G. glauca Korth.— Miq. Fl. Ind.- very imperfect. 



Bat. ii, 200. ' Spec. 2. Walp. Rejy. ii. 944 ; ^^. 75. 



5 Hook. Lotxd. Jotirn. Hot. ii. 224— B. H. Gen. '» Verhandl. Nat. G<^schied. (1839-42) 189, t. 



ii. 74, n. 130. 41. — B. II. Gtu. ii. 75, n. 133. 



