RUBIACEJS. 493 



lobes of placentas. Fruit capsular, obovoid, septiciclal; valves 2, 

 2-partible. Seeds oo, small, imbricate, produced on both sides to a 

 narrow wing lacerate at apex ; embryo albuminous. — Shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite, acuminate, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar, deciduous ; 

 flowers ^ in compound terminal corymbiform cymes ; bracteoles 

 deciduous.^ (Temp, mount. India.^) 



187. Chimarrhis Jacq.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, 

 oftener 5-merous ; receptacle obconical or subcampanulate. Calyx 

 short, often cupular, subentire or dentate, sometimes imbricate. 

 Corolla cylindro-campanulate or funnel-shaped, sometimes suburceo- 

 late ; lobes ^ short imbricate or subvalvate, sometimes very short, 

 3 -angular or suborbicular, suddenly narrow^ed at base. Stamens 2- 

 morphous, inserted near base of corolla or higher, sometimes between 

 lobes ; filaments short or elongate exserted, often dilated at base, 

 barbate or villose ; anthers oblong, versatile ; cells introrse, at base 

 oftener free, rimose, enclosed or exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk 

 orbicular or hemispherical ; style ^ short or elongate sulcate ; branches 

 2, oftener obtuse recurved, sometimes marginate below apex. Ovules 

 CO , inserted on axile placenta,'^ either oblique or subhorizontal super- 

 posed. Fruit capsular, septicidal ; valves sometimes 2-partite ; 

 exocarp seceding from endocarp. Seeds oo, oftener short, at margin 

 shortly or more or less broadly alate ; wing unequally dentate. — 

 Glabrous or pubescent trees ; leaves opposite, often large, sometimes 

 cordate at base or long unequally attenuate ; stipules interpetiolar 

 various, deciduous or caducous ; flowers ^ in axillary or oftener 

 terminal compound-ramose and cymiferous racemes, bracteate and 

 bracteolate. (Trop. America and Antilles y) 



188. Nauclea L.^° — Flowers spuriously capitate, 5-merous; recep- 

 tacle free obconical. Calyx 5-partite or 5-lobed ; lobes various, 



' White or pink, showy, sweet-scented. <» Sometimes 4 or 6, separable sometimes al- 



2 A sect, of Ci)<chona, ex Brigxoli, loc. tit. most to the base of the (subdialypetalous) corolla. 



3 Spec. 2. Wall. Tmt, Fl. Nepal, t. 21 {Cin- « Sometimes exserted before anthesis and 

 ch.na). — KuRz, For. FL Brit. Biinn. ii. 71. — compressed between the short lobes of the 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3046, 4132. corolla. 



■* St. Amer. 61. — J. Gen. 204; Mem. Mus. vi. 7 ."Sometimes apparently sterile. 



SSL—BG. Frodr. iv. 403.— Endl. Gen. n. 3260. ^ Small, white, sometimes deep rcddisR on 



— B. H. Gen. ii. 45, n. 48. — Sickingia W. Ges. drying, odorous. 



Nnturf. Fr. Bed. N. Schr. iii. 445; Schrad. ^ Spec, about 12. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 



JouTH. Bot. (1800) ii. 291.— Rich. Buh. 200.— Z2Z.— Walt. Ann. v. 120 {Spmaa). 



DC. Prodr. iv, 621.— Endl. Gen. 566.— B. H. ^o Oen.n. 22d.— J. Gen. 209.— Rich. Bub. 20H. 



Gen. ii. 34, n. 14.— H. Bx. Jdausonia, xii. 302. —DC. Prodr. iv. 343.— Endl. Gen. n. 3280.— 



—Sprucea Benth. Hook. Keir Journ. v. 230. — B. H. Gen. ii. 31, n. 6.— H. Bn. Adatisomoj xii. 



B. H. Gen. ii. 43, n. 44. 311.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 26. 



