RUBIACE^. 467 



spurious terminal or oftener axillary umbels (cymes), sometimes in 

 spikelike cymes. (Trop, Asia, Ind. Archip., Guinea}) 



140. Virecta Sm.^ — Flowers 4, 5-merous or more rarely 6, 7- 

 merous ; receptacle ovoid or obconical. Calyx lobes equal or unequal, 

 linear or foliaceous, sometimes subspathulate ; sometimes 1, 2 denti- 

 cules (stipular) interposed. Tube of pilose funnel-shaped corolla 

 elongate or slender ; throat glabrous or villose ^ {Pentas ^) ; lobes of 

 limb 4-7, oblong, valvate, finally open. Stamens as many inserted 

 at throat ; filaments short or long ; anthers dorsifixed, often versatile 

 oblong ; cells introrsely rimose, sometimes free at base. Germen 2- 

 celled ; disk epigynous, various, simple, entire or lobed, or consisting 

 of 2 free glandules ; branches of slender style stigmatose short obtuse 

 or linear papillose throughout {Pentas). Ovules oo, inserted on rather 

 prominent sessile or stipitate placentas affixed to middle of septum. 

 Fruit capsular, coriaceous or membranous ; exocarp separable from 

 horny endocarp loculicidal; valves 2, either both persistent {Pentas)^ 

 or one persistent, the other deciduous. Seeds oo, small, angular, often 

 reticulate ; embryo small clavate ; albumen fleshy. — Herbs or under- 

 shrubs, variously pilose ; leaves opposite, petiolate oblong- or ovate- 

 lanceolate ; stipules entire, 2-n^te or oftener oo-sect ; flowers ^ in 

 terminal corymbiform or umbelliform cymes, bracteate. {Trop. east, 

 and last. Afriea, Madagascar.^) 



141 ? Otomeria Benth.^ — Flowers (nearly of Virecta) 4, 5-merous ; 

 calyx lobes unequal (1, 2 larger -foliaceous). Tube of corolla slender 

 elongate, dilated above and there staminiferous ; throat variously 

 villose or with a ring of hairs ; lobes of limb valvate or induplicate. 



^ Spec, about 25. Wight, Icon. t. 1160. — ir^:>'i. Calc. 38i). — Vlgnaldiu A.UicU. Fl. Ahys'. 



Benn. Pl.Jav.Rar. 92, t. 22.— Mia Fl. Ind.-Bal. i. S 57. —Neurocarptea K. Bu. S'tlt. Abyss. Jpp. 



ii. 160, 348, t. 61 ; Suppl. i. 215, 539 ; Ann. Mns. iv. 64 (part).— Endl. Gen. n. 3313, a. 



Luyd.-Bat. iv. 228.— Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. * Rather large, showy, white, pink, purplish, 



44. — Walp. Itep. vi. 72; Attn. ii. 791; v. lilac or yellow. 



132. « Spec, about 10. Forsk. Fl. ^g.-Arab. 42 



2 Rees Cyclop, xxxvi. (not L. F.).— DC. Prodr. {Ophiorrhiza) .—\ kvll, Symb.i. 12 {Manettia). — 



iv. 414.— Endl. Gen . tl . Z'Ul .—B . H. Gen. ii. 55, Kl. Pei. Moss. Bot. 286 {Pe,ita)nsia).—OLi\. Tr, 



n. l%.—Phyteumoides Smeathm. mss. (ex DC). Linn. Soc. xxix. 82, t. 46 {Pentas).— Vatk. (Est. 



^ Hairs sometimes rigid, rather prominent in Bot. Zeitschr. xxv. 232 {Pentas). — Hierx. Fl. 



an erect crown, obliquely striate, obtuse, col- Trop. Afr. iii. 45 {Pentas), 47. — Lindl. Pot. Reg. 



lecting the pollen. (1844) t. Z2{Pentos).-^''Ai.v.Rep.\\.ol{Ptntas), 



^Benth. Bot. Mag. t. 4086 (1844). -B. H. 603; Ann. n. Tizlvignaldia). 



Gsic, ii. 54, n. 11 .—Orihostcmma^ aia.. (ex Voigt, " ^iger Fl. 405.— B. H. Gen. ii. 55, n. 79. 



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