RUBIACEM. 471 



seriate, transversely compressed and superposed. Fruit capsular 

 clavate ; exocarp finally separable from endocarp. Seeds oo, orbicular 

 compressed subtransverse reticulate, thick-winged at margin, albu- 

 minous. — Glabrous shrubs ; leaves opposite obovate-lanceolate cori- 

 aceous nearly veinless petiolate ; stipules short connate with petioles 

 in a sheath ; flowers ' in terminal corymbiform cymes, minutely 

 bracteate.^ {N. Caledonia.^) 



147. Condaminea DC* — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 subcampanulate. Calyx gamophyllous, widely tubular or campanulate, 

 unequally 2-6-dentate or lobed, -coriaceous, at base circumscissile 

 deciduous. Corolla funnel-shaped- campanulate coriaceous ; throat 

 villose ; lobes of limb 5, 6, thickened at apex, valvate, recurved. 

 Stamens 5, 6, inserted in tube ; filaments thick ; anthers dorsifixed 

 oblong introrse exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous orbicular- 

 depressed; branches of exserted sometimes subclavate style every- 

 where papillose-stigmatose recurved. Ovules oo, inserted on a 

 longitudinal rather prominent placenta. Fruit capsular turbinate 

 coriaceous, areolate at apex, loculicidal from apex ; valves finally 

 recurved. Seeds oo, small subtransverse cuneate; testa loosely reti- 

 culate; cotyledons of clavate embryo plano-convex; radicle obtuse; 

 albumen fleshy. — Small trees or shrubs ; branches compressed ; leaves 

 opposite (large), petiolate, oblong acuminate, generally cordate at 

 base, coriaceous nervose ; stipules intrapetiolar large chartaceous 

 venose, 2-partite ; flowers^ in long-pedunculate compound-3-parous 

 cymes, ebracteolate ; pedicels thick. (South, trop. America,^) 



148. Rustia Kl.^ — Flowers 5-merous (nearly of Condaminea) ; 

 receptacle obconical or campanulate. Calyx short cupular, dentate 

 or lobed, sometimes subentire. Lobes of funnel-shaped-campanulate 

 corolla 5, glabrous or tomentose, valvate, recurved or open ; throat 

 glabrous or villose. Stamens inserted under throat; filaments subulate 

 or 3-angular, often barbate at base; anthers basifixed, often 4-gonal, 



^ Large, showy, white. showy. 



2 A genus very near Bikkia (of which perhaps ^ Spec, ahout 4. R. et Pav. FL Fer. et Chil. ii. 

 better a sect.). t. 188-190 {Macrocnemum).—!!. B. K. Nov. Gen. 



3 Spec. 1 (v. 2 ?). Ap. Br. et Gr. Ann. Sc. et Sp. iii. 399 {Macrocnemum).—?(E,vv. et Endl. 

 Nat. ser. 5, vi 255 ; xiii. 401. Nov. Qen. et Sp. iii. 30.— Walp. Ftp. ii. 507.^^ 



* Prodr. iv. 402.— Endl. G^«. n. 3262.— B. H. ^ Hayn. Arzn. xiv. sub t. 14.— B. H. Gen. ii. 

 Gen. ii. 44 n. 47. 45, n. id.—Tresanthera Karst. Fl. Colomb. 37, 



* Large, white, purplish or brown, often t. Id.—Henlga Karst. loc. cit. 157, t. 78. 



