RUBIACEJE. 481 



below, albuminous. — Puberulous trees ; ^ leaves opposite, obovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar sericeous and 

 linear-glandulose within ; flowers ^ in compound cymiferous racemes, 

 oftener secund, sessile, ebracteolate. (Cohuiihi<(, Peru.^) 



165. Macrocnemum P. Be/ — Flowers' 5-merous; receptacle 



oblong. Calyx cupular ; teeth 5, sometimes equal, partly foliaceous, 



persistent. Tube of funnel-shaped corolla rather long ;^ lobes of limb 



5, valvate or reduplicate, pilose within at margin, finally open. 



Stamens inserted in tube; filaments unequal or subequal, barbate 



below or to middle ; anthers short dorsifixed introrse, enclosed. 



Germen 2 -celled ; disk epigynous thick ; branches of slender style 



stigmatose oblong or ellipsoid rather compressed. Ovules oo, inserted 



on placenta adnate to septum. Fruit capsular, oblong, subclavate or 



subcylindrical, 2-suicate, loculicidal. Seeds oo, inserted on entire or 



fissous septum, imbricate, produced on both sides to a narrow entire 



wing, albuminous. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite, petiolate ; 



stipules interpetiolar, deciduous ; flowers ^ in terminal and axillary 



compound cymiferous racemes ; pedicels bracteolate. (Trop. America, 



Antilles.^) 



166. Hymenopogon Wall.'^ — Flowers ^^ 5-merous; receptacle 

 long-obovoid. Calyx lobes long-subulate, sometimes subunequal. 

 Tube of hypocrateriform corolla rather long; throat retrorsely villose; 

 lobes of limb 5, short valvate, finally open, internally barbate at 

 middle. Stamens 5, inserted under throat ; filaments short ; anthers 

 narrow dorsifixed ; cells rimose, free at base. Germen 2-celled ; disk 

 orbicular, ciliate ; branches of slender style 2, long linear, stigmatose- 

 papillose to middle. Ovules oo, inserted on subpeltate placentas, 

 fusiform. Fruit capsular coriaceous shortly clavate, crowned with 



1 Bark bitter. {Ci}ic^ona).—'H.B. PL jEquiu. t. 19 [Cinchona), 



2 Small, " ash-grey." — Wedd. Et. Quinq. 97, t. 27 {Lasionema) ; 



3 Spec. 1, 2. R. et Pa v. Fl. Per. ii. t. 197 Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, i. 75.— Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. 

 (Cinchona).— WA1.V. yliin. ill 8S. JF.-Ind. 322.— Walp. Ann. v. 119.— [Of this 



*/«;«. 165 (not of others). — Jj. Amce/i.yAlS. genus is (ex Tui.) Cinchona disdtijlora Mux. 



~J. Mem. Mus. vi. 386 (part).— B, H. Gen. ii. This genus is also referred to Cinchona by 



35, n. 17. — Lasionema Don, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bbignoli, mem. cit. {Man. Soc. Ital. Moden. 



xvii. 141.— ExDL. Gen. n. 3272. ser. 2, i. 52).] 



* Somewhat of Cinchona. ^ Eoxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Car.) ii. 156 ; PL As. 



« Before stamens sometimes longitudinally Bar. t. 22 (not P. Beauv.).— Kicii. Bub. 202. 



fissous. —DC. Prodr. iv. 351.— Endl. Gen. n. 3276.— 



"^ Moderate, white or pink. B. H. Gen. ii. 34, n. 15.— Hook. Fl. Tml. iii. 34. 



8 Spec. 7, 8. R. et Pav. Fl. Per. ii. t. 199 i" Somewhat of Cinchora. 



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