RUBIACEJE. ill 



subrotate ; throat villose ; lobes recurved, contorted. Stamens 5, 

 inserted in tube, exserted ; filaments near middle inwardly geniculate- 

 appendiculate and there densely lanuginous ; anthers dorsifixed ovate, 

 introrsely 2-rimose. Germen inferior, 2-celled, crowned with depressed 

 disk ; style thickened to apex and there divided into 2 short, obtuse 

 stigmatiferous branches. Ovules oo, inserted on a thick subpeltate 

 placenta. Fruit capsular, loculicidal ; valves finally 2-fid. Seeds oc, 

 inserted on thick foveolate placentas, unequally elongate or angular, 

 compressed ; external coat cellulose subalate ; embryo . . . ? — Lofty 

 glabrous resinous trees ; leaves opposite, petiolate oblong-ovate or 

 subovate, large coriaceous penninerved ; stipules intrapetiolar thick 

 connate or free obtuse ; flowers ^ in terminal very ramose compound 

 spikes or racemes, sessile or shortly pedicellate, minutely bracteate. 

 {Perils N. Granada.') 



158. Greenea W. and Arn.^ — Flowers 4, 5-merous ; receptacle 

 subglobose. Calyx lobes short acute, persistent. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped; tube long, glabrous within ; lobes of limb ovate, contorted. 

 Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat ; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed 

 exserted ; cells introrse exserted, free at base and apex. Germen 

 2 celled;^ disk thin or 0; branches of slender style 2, stigmatose 

 within, recurved or revolute. Ovules go, inserted on a hemispherical 

 placenta peltately affixed to septum. Fruit capsular subglobose 

 (small), septicidal; valves 2-partible; exocarp separable from endo- 

 carp. Seeds oo, inserted on free placenta, angular or curved rather 

 compressed reticulate, sometimes narrows-winged, albuminous. Gla- 

 brous or pubescent shrubs (sometimes climbing ?) ; leaves opposite 

 or ternate, lanceolate, long-petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar various ; 

 flowers Mn cymiferous racemes, often 1-lateral subsessile, ebracteolate.® 

 (Trop. Asia and Oceania.'^) 



159. Deppea Cham, and Schlchtl.^ — Flowers 4-merous; recep- 

 tacle turbinate. Calyx short, 4-dentate, persistent ; teeth equal or 



^ Small, not handsome. ' Spec. 4, 5. Wall. Hoxb. Fl. l„d. ii. 140 



3 Spec- 2. Walp. Arm. ii. 777. {RoHdikt%n).—TiG. Prodr. iv. 412, n. 13 {Wtnd- 



3 Prodr. i. 403. — Endl. Gen. n. 3251 {Greenia). landia). — Wight. 2c(j». t. 1161.— Mia. Fl. Ind.- 



— B. H. Gen. ii. 61 {Greenia), 1228, n. 67.— Bat. ii. 156 (part) ;' Ann. Mm. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 



Hook. FL Ind. iii. ^\,—Phomhospora Korth. 222 {Rhombospora).—V7KLV. Rep. ii. 504. 



Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 114. * Linnaa, v. 167 ; xix. 747.— DC. Prodr. iv. 



-•Rarely 3-celled. 618.— Exdl. Atakt. 25, t. 24 ; Gen. n. 3136.- 



* Small, white, sericeous. B. H. Gen. ii. 52, n. 68. — Choristes Benth. PL 



• G. latifolia Bl. (known to us only from a Hnrtueg. 63. 

 very defective specimen) is apparently G net tarda. 



